---
type: "Bill"
title: "COURTS: Provides for the appointment of interpreters in court proceedings. (8/1/24) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "COURTS: Provides for the appointment of interpreters in court proceedings. (8/1/24) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 103"
citation: "Louisiana SB 103 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Royce Duplessis"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-28"
last_action: "2024-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/993ba27a-0810-4c06-81ca-b71e303eb0f8"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245984"
source_hash: "d8d307d0ad4de55119a26bd4fa975be43dfd2a7660096a096d864002b0247e04"
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 103 (2024) — COURTS: Provides for the appointment of interpreters in court proceedings. (8/1/24) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB103 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1349275)
2. **SB103 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374251)
3. **SB103 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1353948)
4. **SB103 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1355365)
5. **Senate Floor Amendment, #860, Duplessis, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1355252)
6. **SB103 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371979)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#876) — **90–6** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#27) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Royce Duplessis — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-13** Effective date 8/1/2024.
- **2024-05-13** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 32. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-08** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-07** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-05-07** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-06** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-06** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 6. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-06** Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
- **2024-05-01** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/06/2024.
- **2024-04-23** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-22** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-04-18** Reported favorably (16-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-20** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-19** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-03-18** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-03-13** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-03-12** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-28** 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/993ba27a-0810-4c06-81ca-b71e303eb0f8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).