--- type: "Bill" title: "JUDGES: (Constitutional Amendment) Provides relative to the mandatory retirement of judges (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)" description: "JUDGES: (Constitutional Amendment) Provides relative to the mandatory retirement of judges (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)" jurisdiction: "us/states/la" legislature: "Louisiana Legislature" session: "2025" identifier: "HB 63" citation: "Louisiana HB 63 (2025)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: [] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Kyle M. Green , Jr."] version_count: 10 action_count: 43 vote_count: 5 first_action: "2025-03-14" last_action: "2025-06-13" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/36302c6a-35aa-487c-956b-4e25d690717b" source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247950" source_hash: "52a07d6dec4b959495023d90d8c5143d570c87b7abe8435376e9a377255397d5" 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 63 (2025) — JUDGES: (Constitutional Amendment) Provides relative to the mandatory retirement of judges (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX) ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **HB63 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1396784) 2. **Conference Committee Report, #4396, House Proposed, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424556) 3. **HB63 Act 219** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425421) 4. **HB63 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415406) 5. **HB63 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418844) 6. **House Committee Amendment, #2674, JUD, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413624) 7. **House Committee Amendment, #2985, JUD, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415390) 8. **House Floor Amendment, #3472, Hughes, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417927) 9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3061, Miller, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422547) 10. **HB63 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425151) ## Votes - FINAL PASSAGE (#682) — **26–13** (pass) · upper - ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1224) — **95–1** (pass) · lower - ADOPT (#974) — **31–3** (pass) · upper - REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#992) — **99–0** (pass) · lower - FINAL PASSAGE (#671) — **81–16** (pass) · lower ## Sponsors - Kyle M. Green , Jr. — primary (person) - Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2025-06-13** Effective date: See Act. - **2025-06-13** Becomes Act No. 219. `became-law` - **2025-06-13** Taken by the Clerk of the House and presented to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House. - **2025-06-12** Signed by the President of the Senate. - **2025-06-12** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled` - **2025-06-12** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report. - **2025-06-12** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 31 yeas and 3 nays. - **2025-06-12** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report. - **2025-06-11** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 95, nays 1. Having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, the Conference Committee Report was adopted. - **2025-06-11** Rules suspended. - **2025-06-11** Conference committee report received. - **2025-06-11** Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules. - **2025-06-11** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed. - **2025-06-11** House conferees appointed: Hughes, Robby Carter, and Mike Johnson. - **2025-06-11** Notice of Senate conferees appointed. - **2025-06-10** Senate conference committee members appointed: Miller, Connick, and Seabaugh. - **2025-06-09** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments. - **2025-06-09** Read by title, roll called, yeas 99, nays 0. The Senate amendments, not having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, were rejected. Conference committee appointment pending. - **2025-06-08** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/09/2025. - **2025-06-08** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt` - **2025-06-08** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 26 yeas and 13 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage` - **2025-06-04** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3` - **2025-06-03** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable` - **2025-06-01** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `reading-2, referral-committee` - **2025-05-29** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1` - **2025-05-28** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 81, nays 16. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage` - **2025-05-28** Called from the calendar. - **2025-05-27** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/28/2025. - **2025-05-27** Notice given. - **2025-05-27** Read by title, returned to the calendar. - **2025-05-27** Called from the calendar. - **2025-05-21** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/27/2025. - **2025-05-21** Notice given. - **2025-05-21** Read by title, returned to the calendar. - **2025-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/2025. - **2025-05-20** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3` - **2025-05-20** Discharged from the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. - **2025-05-19** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. - **2025-05-15** Reported with amendments (12-3-1). To be recommitted to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `committee-passage-favorable` - **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee` - **2025-03-14** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/14/2025. - **2025-03-14** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee` - **2025-03-14** Prefiled. `filing` ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/36302c6a-35aa-487c-956b-4e25d690717b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).