---
type: "Bill"
title: "APPROPRIATIONS: Appropriates funds for the expenses of the judiciary for Fiscal Year 2021-2022"
description: "APPROPRIATIONS: Appropriates funds for the expenses of the judiciary for Fiscal Year 2021-2022"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 584"
citation: "Louisiana HB 584 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jerome Zeringue"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-04-02"
last_action: "2021-06-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7979e451-0e4e-4fab-b448-65e6eb038bf0"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240553"
source_hash: "50320ef8ff88e27b962f596d2cab071bd56b6dfa0e7bd6bdf81751fd5ca45cb8"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
---

# Louisiana HB 584 (2021) — APPROPRIATIONS: Appropriates funds for the expenses of the judiciary for Fiscal Year 2021-2022

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB584 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1212079)
2. **HB584 Act 116** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1233371)
3. **HB584 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219830)
4. **HB584 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222180)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1258, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214631)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2088, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219846)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2303, Zeringue, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221008)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2208, FNCE, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1226997)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2453, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1227058)
10. **HB584 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1229341)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#292) — **92–1** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#816) — **103–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#562) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jerome Zeringue — primary (person)
- Clay Schexnayder — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2021-06-07** Effective date: 07/01/2021.
- **2021-06-07** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 116. `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-28** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate on 5/28/2021.
- **2021-05-27** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-05-27** Read by title, roll called, yeas 103, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2021-05-27** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2021-05-27** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-26** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-25** Read by title; made Special Order of the Day No. 8 for 5/27.
- **2021-05-25** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-24** Reported with amendments.
- **2021-05-11** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-10** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-06** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-04** Made Special Order of the day No. 7 for 05/06/2021.
- **2021-05-04** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-03** Reported with amendments (17-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021.
- **2021-04-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7979e451-0e4e-4fab-b448-65e6eb038bf0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).