---
type: "Bill"
title: "PUBLIC RECORDS: Provides relative to interagency data sharing"
description: "PUBLIC RECORDS: Provides relative to interagency data sharing"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 685"
citation: "Louisiana HB 685 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barry Ivey"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-28"
last_action: "2020-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cf88b02f-0f7b-488b-9df7-310ea32a9bc4"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238444"
source_hash: "ec96419caa58b6676f24afdff9e67e8e480d2740fe080889705ae351593253db"
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 685 (2020) — PUBLIC RECORDS: Provides relative to interagency data sharing

## Version chain

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

1. **HB685 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1164177)
2. **HB685 Act 293** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182370)
3. **HB685 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172151)
4. **HB685 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1175158)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1819, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1171503)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1863, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1171743)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #1938, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172112)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #2021, Ivey, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172829)
9. **HB685 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177756)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#265) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#573) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Barry Ivey — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-12** Effective date: 08/01/2020.
- **2020-06-12** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 293. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-02** 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.
- **2020-05-29** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 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** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-21** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2020-05-21** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/20.
- **2020-05-15** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-13** Reported with amendments (14-0-1).
- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cf88b02f-0f7b-488b-9df7-310ea32a9bc4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).