---
type: "Bill"
title: "NOTARIES: Provides relative to qualifications to be appointed a notary public"
description: "NOTARIES: Provides relative to qualifications to be appointed a notary public"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 134"
citation: "Louisiana HB 134 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Samuel Jenkins"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-25"
last_action: "2019-05-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/11930f24-423b-4336-bb8e-8eb6ba18a68c"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235812"
source_hash: "f54e10490ab55a66a85f59a700cad9e6539c728a96f8cdf90e7772b06cd1d414"
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 134 (2019) — NOTARIES: Provides relative to qualifications to be appointed a notary public

## Version chain

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

1. **HB134 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1117762)
2. **HB134 Act 9** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139029)
3. **HB134 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1125745)
4. **HB134 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1135999)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#54) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#407) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Samuel Jenkins — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-24** Effective date: 05/24/2019.
- **2019-05-24** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 9. `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-23** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-22** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-21** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-20** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-05-20** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-16** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-15** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-14** Reported favorably.
- **2019-04-30** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-29** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-04-25** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-04-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/25/19.
- **2019-04-23** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-04-22** Reported favorably (6-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-25** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-25** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/11930f24-423b-4336-bb8e-8eb6ba18a68c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).