---
type: "Bill"
title: "COURTS: Provides relative to the Orleans Parish Civil District Court judicial building fund. (gov sig)"
description: "COURTS: Provides relative to the Orleans Parish Civil District Court judicial building fund. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 53"
citation: "Louisiana SB 53 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jimmy Harris"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-22"
last_action: "2021-06-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7ea83c88-dc4c-43a3-8c93-2c3ef9e84008"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239973"
source_hash: "0938bbc116c8bd8c30f17f1f4d07b097cd06069653a941e6c3e7b3f6b6ef1b3d"
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 53 (2021) — COURTS: Provides relative to the Orleans Parish Civil District Court judicial building fund. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB53 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1205472)
2. **SB53 Act 289** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235426)
3. **SB53 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214028)
4. **SB53 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232644)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#59) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1037) — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jimmy Harris — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-15** Effective date 6/15/2021.
- **2021-06-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 289. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-10** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `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 96, nays 0. 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 (13-0). 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.
- **2021-04-20** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-04-19** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-04-14** Reported favorably.
- **2021-04-12** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-22** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7ea83c88-dc4c-43a3-8c93-2c3ef9e84008`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).