---
type: "Bill"
title: "SECRETARY OF STATE: Provides relative to the powers, duties, and functions of the Louisiana State Archives. (8/1/24)"
description: "SECRETARY OF STATE: Provides relative to the powers, duties, and functions of the Louisiana State Archives. (8/1/24)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 149"
citation: "Louisiana SB 149 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cleo Fields"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-02-29"
last_action: "2024-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5b55e4ba-819e-4884-acae-26d41a45c429"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246164"
source_hash: "8ba2c68e5f270b596c7e7accce8cc507b1836f0b16979c22017ced875533b91c"
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 149 (2024) — SECRETARY OF STATE: Provides relative to the powers, duties, and functions of the Louisiana State Archives. (8/1/24)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB149 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1350854)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #4543, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1373811)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #4608, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374408)
4. **SB149 Act 508** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382213)
5. **SB149 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358807)
6. **SB149 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379138)

## Votes

- CONCUR (#1192) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#198) — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1295) — **100–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Cleo Fields — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-10** Effective date 8/1/2024.
- **2024-06-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 508. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-31** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-30** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-05-29** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-28** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2024-05-22** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/2024.
- **2024-05-20** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-15** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-05-14** Reported with amendments (12-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-04** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-04-03** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-02** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-03-27** 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 Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-29** 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/5b55e4ba-819e-4884-acae-26d41a45c429`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).