---
type: "Bill"
title: "CORPORATIONS: Provides relative to articles of incorporation and qualifications of registered agents of certain corporations. (gov sig)"
description: "CORPORATIONS: Provides relative to articles of incorporation and qualifications of registered agents of certain corporations. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 54"
citation: "Louisiana SB 54 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Franklin J. Foil"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 18
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-02-19"
last_action: "2020-06-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e9330bd6-2cec-4b68-b842-6e5bca899cb3"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237553"
source_hash: "36a01c904a3f229a5e96c5cbaea0e229399d3df85ad7a032838a219bc8ea8f0e"
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 SB 54 (2020) — CORPORATIONS: Provides relative to articles of incorporation and qualifications of registered agents of certain corporations. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB54 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1156129)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #2120, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1173407)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #2139, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1173461)
4. **House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1683, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1173929)
5. **SB54 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1180261)
6. **SB54 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1165268)
7. **SB54 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1171261)
8. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #714, Mills, Fred, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1165436)
9. **SB54 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177261)

## Votes

- CONCUR (#426) — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#88) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#441) — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Franklin J. Foil — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-05** Effective date 6/5/2020.
- **2020-06-05** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 50. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-05-31** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-29** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-28** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2020-05-27** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2020-05-27** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/27/20.
- **2020-05-21** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-20** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2020-05-18** Reported with amendments (15-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-13** Received in the House from the Senate, rules suspended, read by title, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-11** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-03-16** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-03-11** Reported favorably.
- **2020-03-09** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-19** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e9330bd6-2cec-4b68-b842-6e5bca899cb3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).