---
type: "Bill"
title: "COURTS: Provides relative to the districts of the supreme court. (gov sig)"
description: "COURTS: Provides relative to the districts of the supreme court. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 255"
citation: "Louisiana SB 255 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cleo Fields"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 21
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/82ecdb63-1449-4fac-9dec-91ca301a3d1a"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246503"
source_hash: "96f96c216cc6e924ea6d31bd0a0bfd916c4626812594ea82ca1ed2dff46f4e3b"
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 255 (2024) — COURTS: Provides relative to the districts of the supreme court. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB255 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352481)
2. **SB255 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371415)
3. **SB255 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354254)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #657, S&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354031)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #744, S&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354214)
6. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1164, Pressly, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1357958)
7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1165, Pressly, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1357778)
8. **SB255 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369218)

## Votes

- AMENDMENT # 1164 BY PRESSLY, SB 255 BY FIELDS (#132) — **7–32** (fail) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#713) — **85–9** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#134) — **31–8** (pass) · upper
- AMENDMENT # 1165 BY PRESSLY, SB 255 BY FIELDS (#133) — **9–30** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cleo Fields — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
- Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Foy Gadberry — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
- Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Lauren Ventrella — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
- Rashid Young — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Shaun Mena — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-01** Effective date 5/1/2024.
- **2024-05-01** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 7. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-04-29** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 4/25/2024. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-25** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-04-29** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate on 4/25/2024. `enrolled`
- **2024-04-24** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-04-24** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 85, nays 9. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-24** Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
- **2024-04-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/24/2024.
- **2024-04-09** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-08** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-04-04** Reported favorably (16-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-27** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-26** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-03-26** Read by title, passed by a vote of 31 yeas and 8 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-03-19** Read by title; made Special Order of the Day No. 1 for March 26, 2024.
- **2024-03-19** Rules suspended.
- **2024-03-18** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-03-13** Reported with amendments. `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`
- **2024-03-01** 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/82ecdb63-1449-4fac-9dec-91ca301a3d1a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).