---
type: "Bill"
title: "WITNESSES/FEES: Repeals fees and mileage rates for certain witnesses"
description: "WITNESSES/FEES: Repeals fees and mileage rates for certain witnesses"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 59"
citation: "Louisiana HB 59 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gregory A. Miller"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-02-08"
last_action: "2022-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/878ea307-7165-43fe-af9e-c6081c9c747b"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241567"
source_hash: "aa2824773af5a63182f1ff6f4b04dfe698ad8de1d5c1c7047c7e6e9af001c25e"
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 59 (2022) — WITNESSES/FEES: Repeals fees and mileage rates for certain witnesses

## Version chain

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

1. **HB59 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1246479)
2. **HB59 Act 99** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1286016)
3. **HB59 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1267753)
4. **HB59 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1279885)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#624) — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#312) — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gregory A. Miller — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-25** Effective date: 08/01/2022.
- **2022-05-25** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 99. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-19** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-18** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-17** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-17** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2022-05-16** Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-05-12** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-05-11** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-05-10** Reported favorably.
- **2022-04-19** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-18** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-04-18** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-04-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/18/2022.
- **2022-04-11** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-04-07** Reported favorably (6-0-1).
- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-11** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/11/2022.
- **2022-02-08** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-08** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/878ea307-7165-43fe-af9e-c6081c9c747b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).