---
type: "Bill"
title: "SEIZURES/SALES: Provides relative to online judicial sales. (8/1/23)"
description: "SEIZURES/SALES: Provides relative to online judicial sales. (8/1/23)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 140"
citation: "Louisiana SB 140 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Franklin J. Foil"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-30"
last_action: "2023-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c026ffbd-f2b3-4686-a764-742efbce9f46"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244393"
source_hash: "014d96b640b2a45416661c3e9da6a4b723abee41139e942b34168f8c286fb70b"
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 140 (2023) — SEIZURES/SALES: Provides relative to online judicial sales. (8/1/23)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB140 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1308869)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3304, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1324336)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3320, CL&P, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1324451)
4. **House Floor Amendment, #3904, Miller, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328441)
5. **SB140 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332588)
6. **SB140 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318030)
7. **SB140 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1319909)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1173, JUDA, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317883)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1184, JUDA, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317905)
10. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1345, Foil, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1319042)
11. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #1346, Foil, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1319526)
12. **SB140 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329411)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#228) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR (#667) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#876) — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Franklin J. Foil — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-14** Effective date 8/1/2023.
- **2023-06-14** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 390. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-06** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-05** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2023-06-05** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-04** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2023-06-01** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-01** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-31** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/01/2023.
- **2023-05-24** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-23** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2023-05-22** Reported with amendments (11-0-1). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-09** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2023-05-08** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-03** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2023-05-02** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-30** 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/c026ffbd-f2b3-4686-a764-742efbce9f46`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).