---
type: "Bill"
title: "COURTS/COURT COSTS: Provides relative to certain witness fees"
description: "COURTS/COURT COSTS: Provides relative to certain witness fees"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 464"
citation: "Louisiana HB 464 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mike Johnson"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-29"
last_action: "2024-05-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9b0aee89-959a-49eb-837e-0b787c356448"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246187"
source_hash: "1ec41364e2a975a0de16bb4f395a1640557bcaee912cbf369c38c6b4c382ebf6"
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 464 (2024) — COURTS/COURT COSTS: Provides relative to certain witness fees

## Version chain

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

1. **HB464 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1350905)
2. **HB464 Act 112** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378133)
3. **HB464 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364814)
4. **HB464 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366885)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1575, JUD, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356677)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2812, JUD, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364783)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2952, Johnson, Mike, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365303)
8. **HB464 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374456)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#645) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#581) — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mike Johnson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-21** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-05-21** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 112. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-16** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-15** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-14** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-13** 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`
- **2024-05-06** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-01** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-04-30** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-17** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-17** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-16** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/17/2024.
- **2024-04-15** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-11** Reported with amendments (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-29** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9b0aee89-959a-49eb-837e-0b787c356448`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).