---
type: "Bill"
title: "ETHICS: Allows the use of summary proceedings in matters pending before the Ethics Adjudicatory Board. (8/1/23)"
description: "ETHICS: Allows the use of summary proceedings in matters pending before the Ethics Adjudicatory Board. (8/1/23)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 40"
citation: "Louisiana SB 40 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Franklin J. Foil"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-21"
last_action: "2023-06-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/48bd729a-e123-4272-a1b6-be45a63351d6"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244002"
source_hash: "6e216bdd588ebf12f266f4be9051defdf1d0c630c2d9a2688c4d73600b799d10"
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 40 (2023) — ETHICS: Allows the use of summary proceedings in matters pending before the Ethics Adjudicatory Board. (8/1/23)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB40 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1304449)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #2949, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322197)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3012, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322514)
4. **House Floor Amendment, #3710, Miller, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326990)
5. **SB40 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332129)
6. **SB40 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313046)
7. **SB40 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315773)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #491, S&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1311829)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #621, S&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1312991)
10. **Senate Floor Amendment, #788, Foil, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314840)
11. **SB40 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328144)

## Votes

- CONCUR (#591) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#88) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#761) — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Franklin J. Foil — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-07** Effective date 8/1/2023.
- **2023-06-07** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 147. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-02** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-02** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2023-06-01** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-31** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2023-05-30** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-30** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-25** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/30/2023.
- **2023-05-18** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-17** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2023-05-16** Reported with amendments (8-0-1). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-27** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-26** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2023-04-25** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-04-19** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2023-04-18** 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 Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-21** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental 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/48bd729a-e123-4272-a1b6-be45a63351d6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).