---
type: "Bill"
title: "CLERKS OF COURT: Creates a retired clerks and clerk's employees insurance fund for the Orleans Parish Clerk of Civil District Court. (8/1/21)"
description: "CLERKS OF COURT: Creates a retired clerks and clerk's employees insurance fund for the Orleans Parish Clerk of Civil District Court. (8/1/21)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 12"
citation: "Louisiana SB 12 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joseph Bouie"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-24"
last_action: "2021-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c54ffa29-5796-4b72-8772-bf7231f8d21d"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239798"
source_hash: "eb108c6bb5d9059efdac31c556d10619ad9835fc194367099922d07f5d166145"
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 12 (2021) — CLERKS OF COURT: Creates a retired clerks and clerk's employees insurance fund for the Orleans Parish Clerk of Civil District Court. (8/1/21)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB12 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1200749)
2. **SB12 Act 282** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235419)
3. **SB12 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215148)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #699, JUDB, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214960)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #713, JUDB, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215096)
6. **SB12 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232662)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#1036) — **99–1** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#80) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Joseph Bouie — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-14** Effective date 8/1/2021.
- **2021-06-14** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 282. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-10** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/11/2021. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-08** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-08** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-07** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2021-06-07** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 1. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-06-03** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/07/2021.
- **2021-06-02** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2021-05-27** Reported favorably (9-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-04-22** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-21** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2021-04-21** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-04-20** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-04-19** 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 B. `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-24** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c54ffa29-5796-4b72-8772-bf7231f8d21d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).