---
type: "Bill"
title: "COURTS/COURT COSTS: Provides relative to mayor's court costs (EN +$17,200 LF RV See Note)"
description: "COURTS/COURT COSTS: Provides relative to mayor's court costs (EN +$17,200 LF RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 48"
citation: "Louisiana HB 48 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sherman Q. Mack"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-02-28"
last_action: "2023-05-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f884833d-beb5-4673-98b2-f57e925b8ea0"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=243878"
source_hash: "2c70984619a4aca6a850c9af0c1362e757b276cf62f1f6627bff1e9eaf22d8a1"
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 48 (2023) — COURTS/COURT COSTS: Provides relative to mayor's court costs (EN +$17,200 LF RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB48 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1301182)
2. **HB48 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328118)
3. **HB48 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316745)
4. **HB48 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325272)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#409) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#276) — **103–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Sherman Q. Mack — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-05-30** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-05-30** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 11. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-05-30** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-26** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-05-24** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-23** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-23** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-17** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-16** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-15** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-11** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-10** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-09** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 103, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/09/2023.
- **2023-05-01** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-27** Reported favorably (9-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/3/2023.
- **2023-02-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f884833d-beb5-4673-98b2-f57e925b8ea0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).