--- type: "Bill" title: "COURTS/COURT COSTS: Provides relative to the judicial expense fund for the 19th JDC" description: "COURTS/COURT COSTS: Provides relative to the judicial expense fund for the 19th JDC" jurisdiction: "us/states/la" legislature: "Louisiana Legislature" session: "2024" identifier: "HB 757" citation: "Louisiana HB 757 (2024)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: [] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Vanessa Caston LaFleur"] version_count: 4 action_count: 18 vote_count: 2 first_action: "2024-03-21" last_action: "2024-05-23" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d969da31-9f33-41bd-b7ff-02a6e0af8c56" source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246822" source_hash: "5ece5f715b15df67ec46a227234de0f682d812acb24d0722a4bbe62c57ffcf40" 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 757 (2024) — COURTS/COURT COSTS: Provides relative to the judicial expense fund for the 19th JDC ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **HB757 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356577) 2. **HB757 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379570) 3. **HB757 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367045) 4. **HB757 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374829) ## Votes - FINAL PASSAGE (#743) — **100–0** (pass) · lower - FINAL PASSAGE (#719) — **37–0** (pass) · upper ## Sponsors - Vanessa Caston LaFleur — primary (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2024-05-23** Effective date: 08/01/2024. - **2024-05-23** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 233. `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` - **2024-05-15** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt` - **2024-05-14** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage` - **2024-05-13** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3` - **2024-05-08** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. - **2024-05-07** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable` - **2024-04-30** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `reading-2, referral-committee` - **2024-04-29** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1` - **2024-04-29** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage` - **2024-04-25** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/29/2024. - **2024-04-22** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3` - **2024-04-18** Reported favorably (14-0). `committee-passage-favorable` - **2024-03-25** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee` - **2024-03-21** Read by title. Lies over under the rules. ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d969da31-9f33-41bd-b7ff-02a6e0af8c56`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).