---
type: "Bill"
title: "COURTS: Provides for electronic filing and record retention. (8/1/24)"
description: "COURTS: Provides for electronic filing and record retention. (8/1/24)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 75"
citation: "Louisiana SB 75 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jay Morris"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 25
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-02-28"
last_action: "2024-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8a2c2f7b-7001-4810-9265-0246d62f32fc"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245905"
source_hash: "7c9efc49af315e3ff70cf1a0e286d2eb0cd9921bc63947c1d30dc632762f2df6"
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 75 (2024) — COURTS: Provides for electronic filing and record retention. (8/1/24)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB75 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1348538)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #4169, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371674)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #4507, CL&P, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1373644)
4. **House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #3473, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374047)
5. **SB75 Act 501** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382206)
6. **SB75 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358259)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1135, JUDA, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1357410)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1192, JUDA, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1357988)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1216, JUDA, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358197)
10. **SB75 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380617)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#1438) — **101–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#1357) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#181) — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jay Morris — 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. 501. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-31** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-31** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-05-31** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-30** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2024-05-30** Called from the Calendar.
- **2024-05-30** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2024-05-29** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-28** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-28** Called from the calendar.
- **2024-05-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/28/2024.
- **2024-05-22** Notice given.
- **2024-05-22** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2024-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/2024.
- **2024-05-15** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-14** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-05-13** Reported with amendments (10-0-1). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-02** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-04-02** Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-03-27** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-03-26** 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 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/8a2c2f7b-7001-4810-9265-0246d62f32fc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).