---
type: "Bill"
title: "COURTS/COURT COSTS: Provides relative to court costs for the City Court of Lake Charles (EN NO IMPACT LF EX See Note)"
description: "COURTS/COURT COSTS: Provides relative to court costs for the City Court of Lake Charles (EN NO IMPACT LF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 20"
citation: "Louisiana HB 20 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Les Farnum"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-02-09"
last_action: "2023-05-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ae57e969-274d-4c15-a73c-5d3f5308d1df"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=243840"
source_hash: "2c0efa30479a631a2f8ae78b83caac6ba373c184bbcf62603b3e20e5fa03aa1a"
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 20 (2023) — COURTS/COURT COSTS: Provides relative to court costs for the City Court of Lake Charles (EN NO IMPACT LF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB20 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1299805)
2. **HB20 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328115)
3. **HB20 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316666)
4. **HB20 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325262)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#274) — **102–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#407) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Les Farnum — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-05-30** Effective date: 05/30/2023.
- **2023-05-30** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 9. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-05-30** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-26** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-05-24** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-23** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-23** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-17** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-16** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-15** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-11** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-10** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-09** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/09/2023.
- **2023-05-01** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-27** Reported favorably (8-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-17** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/17/2023.
- **2023-02-09** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-09** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ae57e969-274d-4c15-a73c-5d3f5308d1df`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).