---
type: "Bill"
title: "COURTS/COURT COSTS: Provides relative to the use of court costs and fees for services by constables and marshals (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF RV See Note)"
description: "COURTS/COURT COSTS: Provides relative to the use of court costs and fees for services by constables and marshals (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 116"
citation: "Louisiana HB 116 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kenny Cox"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-20"
last_action: "2020-06-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a6d3e46a-e56b-4b18-a458-bcc714935b92"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237579"
source_hash: "41424bd66923946e39a2a5642ef692a4db52b3ab8676fbe9f9ca4c822a1cc8ec"
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 116 (2020) — COURTS/COURT COSTS: Provides relative to the use of court costs and fees for services by constables and marshals (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB116 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1156746)
2. **HB116 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1180270)
3. **HB116 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1165534)
4. **HB116 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170460)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1057, JUD, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1164856)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1140, JUD, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1165526)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #1237, Cox, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1166196)
8. **HB116 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1175293)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#26) — **90–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#298) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kenny Cox — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-05** Effective date: 08/01/20.
- **2020-06-05** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 63. `executive-signature`
- **2020-05-29** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-05-25** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-22** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-21** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2020-05-21** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-19** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-18** Reported favorably.
- **2020-05-12** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-11** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2020-05-07** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-03-16** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/07/20.
- **2020-03-12** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-03-12** Rules suspended.
- **2020-03-12** Reported with amendments (12-0).
- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-24** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/24/2020.
- **2020-02-20** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-20** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a6d3e46a-e56b-4b18-a458-bcc714935b92`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).