---
type: "Bill"
title: "NOTARIES: Provides for the ratification of certain executive orders relative to notarial acts"
description: "NOTARIES: Provides for the ratification of certain executive orders relative to notarial acts"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 122"
citation: "Louisiana HB 122 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gregory A. Miller"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-20"
last_action: "2020-06-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/29898292-599d-411b-8d29-4ba464a85edc"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237585"
source_hash: "03a315251cc79927a4572ca87ea970d46aa990c333b575fafbcfc2b718beaa08"
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 122 (2020) — NOTARIES: Provides for the ratification of certain executive orders relative to notarial acts

## Version chain

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

1. **HB122 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1156781)
2. **HB122 Act 131** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1181439)
3. **HB122 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172690)
4. **HB122 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1175603)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1929, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172122)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2000, CL&P, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172675)
7. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1531, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172743)
8. **HB122 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177320)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#372) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#472) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gregory A. Miller — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-09** Effective date: 06/09/2020.
- **2020-06-09** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 131. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-29** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2020-05-28** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-27** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-25** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-22** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/20.
- **2020-05-18** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-15** Reported with amendments (11-0-1).
- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `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 Civil Law and Procedure. `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/29898292-599d-411b-8d29-4ba464a85edc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).