---
type: "Bill"
title: "CIVIL PROCEDURE: Provides relative to the payment of fees for interpreters for non-English-speaking persons in civil cases. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF RV See Note)"
description: "CIVIL PROCEDURE: Provides relative to the payment of fees for interpreters for non-English-speaking persons in civil cases. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 113"
citation: "Louisiana SB 113 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gregory Tarver"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-30"
last_action: "2021-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/395da63b-a7c7-4b89-a52f-729c3b5a36cf"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240158"
source_hash: "49b0f0cd7c157642af4dea1f7fa29fdfa545efe8b3577bf17deb6e777743cf78"
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 SB 113 (2021) — CIVIL PROCEDURE: Provides relative to the payment of fees for interpreters for non-English-speaking persons in civil cases. (gov sig) (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. **SB113 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1208920)
2. **SB113 Act 207** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235334)
3. **SB113 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1213673)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #481, JUDA, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1213495)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #510, JUDA, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1213607)
6. **SB113 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231802)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#169) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#971) — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gregory Tarver — primary (person)
- Troy Carter — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-11** Effective date 6/11/2021.
- **2021-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 207. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-08** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-07** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-07** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-06** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2021-06-03** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-06-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/03/2021.
- **2021-05-26** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-25** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2021-05-24** Reported favorably (13-0-1). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-03** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-29** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2021-04-28** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-04-27** Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-04-26** Reported favorably.
- **2021-04-14** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted; ordered engrossed and recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2021-04-13** Reported with amendments.
- **2021-04-12** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-30** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/395da63b-a7c7-4b89-a52f-729c3b5a36cf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).