---
type: "Bill"
title: "NOTARIES: Provides relative to bonds for notaries public (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "NOTARIES: Provides relative to bonds for notaries public (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 259"
citation: "Louisiana HB 259 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sylvia Taylor"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-04-01"
last_action: "2025-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a8def34e-0654-41e2-859e-9c2922d08756"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248190"
source_hash: "22196e57ee8b806a5e1823d8c4548f9382be21a2349d86fa4d86a4189f83e5d1"
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 259 (2025) — NOTARIES: Provides relative to bonds for notaries public (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB259 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1401328)
2. **HB259 Act 258** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425568)
3. **HB259 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413678)
4. **HB259 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414948)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1500, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407266)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2601, CL&P, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413617)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2878, Taylor, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414771)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2177, JUDA, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417724)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2295, JUDA, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418495)
10. **HB259 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422013)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#580) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#399) — **87–9** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#876) — **95–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Sylvia Taylor — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-11** Effective date: 02/01/2026.
- **2025-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 258. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-04** Read by title, roll called, yeas 95, nays 1, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2025-06-03** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/04/2025.
- **2025-06-03** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-02** The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-01** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-29** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-20** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-19** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-14** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 87, nays 9. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/14/2025.
- **2025-05-13** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-12** Reported with amendments (9-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a8def34e-0654-41e2-859e-9c2922d08756`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).