---
type: "Bill"
title: "PUBLIC RECORDS: Provides that public institutions of postsecondary education furnish public records without charge to student media organizations affiliated with the institution (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX)"
description: "PUBLIC RECORDS: Provides that public institutions of postsecondary education furnish public records without charge to student media organizations affiliated with the institution (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 113"
citation: "Louisiana HB 113 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dixon McMakin"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-20"
last_action: "2024-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/99e26ee3-6ae1-456d-9a5c-d5bb9b121c3b"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245676"
source_hash: "1f84ee57adaa2559807342ea79f0022f3d99bf4411f874bcf8ad366bd0a8f609"
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 113 (2024) — PUBLIC RECORDS: Provides that public institutions of postsecondary education furnish public records without charge to student media organizations affiliated with the institution (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB113 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1344490)
2. **HB113 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381888)
3. **HB113 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362601)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #2216, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361323)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2390, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362523)
6. **HB113 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378404)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#385) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1144) — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dixon McMakin — primary (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-03** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-03** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 411. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-28** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-24** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-24** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-23** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-23** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-16** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-15** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-15** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-10** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-09** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/10/2024.
- **2024-04-08** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-04** Reported with amendments (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-23** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/23/2024.
- **2024-02-20** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-20** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/99e26ee3-6ae1-456d-9a5c-d5bb9b121c3b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).