---
type: "Bill"
title: "COURTS/COURT COSTS: Provides relative to fees dedicated to the operational costs of the office of the coroner in certain parishes (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF RV See Note)"
description: "COURTS/COURT COSTS: Provides relative to fees dedicated to the operational costs of the office of the coroner in certain parishes (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 671"
citation: "Louisiana HB 671 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["C. Travis Johnson"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 17
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-04-19"
last_action: "2021-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1cf3aae9-e6bc-4e5f-ae84-b27de75b7cf0"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240761"
source_hash: "d2d9db80c41e2614258448047bf7fedd8701f00fa397f5b574a66cb9d1d9398e"
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 671 (2021) — COURTS/COURT COSTS: Provides relative to fees dedicated to the operational costs of the office of the coroner in certain parishes (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB671 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214877)
2. **HB671 Act 355** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235683)
3. **HB671 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224668)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #2177, JUD, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220302)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2938, JUD, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224651)
6. **HB671 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1233034)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#594) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#940) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- CO-AUTHORS (#941) — **5–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- C. Travis Johnson — primary (person)
- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Connick — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-14** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-14** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 355. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-07** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-06-07** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-06-06** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-06-06** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-24** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-20** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-20** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/20/2021.
- **2021-05-17** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-13** Reported with amendments (11-0).
- **2021-04-20** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-19** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1cf3aae9-e6bc-4e5f-ae84-b27de75b7cf0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).