---
type: "Bill"
title: "COURTS/COURT COSTS: Provides relative to court costs and civil filing fees in Alexandria City Court (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF RV)"
description: "COURTS/COURT COSTS: Provides relative to court costs and civil filing fees in Alexandria City Court (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF RV)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 347"
citation: "Louisiana HB 347 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lance Harris"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-29"
last_action: "2023-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8fc8bf27-978c-465f-b94c-81b7dca3bbe4"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244245"
source_hash: "7fc006cd3498a233c212e2d4057c9615bf59aa1cb0cf9e5e2a06af628aa9be6a"
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 347 (2023) — COURTS/COURT COSTS: Provides relative to court costs and civil filing fees in Alexandria City Court (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF RV)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB347 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1307882)
2. **HB347 Act 121** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331999)
3. **HB347 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316958)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1811, JUD, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315639)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1972, JUD, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316929)
6. **Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1828, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322951)
7. **HB347 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1327469)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#430) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#301) — **102–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#738) — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lance Harris — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-06** Effective date: See Act.
- **2023-06-06** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 121. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-01** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-05-31** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-30** Read by title, roll called, yeas 99, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2023-05-25** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/30/2023.
- **2023-05-24** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-24** Rules suspended. The amended bill was 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 with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. 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. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-10** 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 05/10/2023.
- **2023-05-01** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-27** Reported with amendments (10-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8fc8bf27-978c-465f-b94c-81b7dca3bbe4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).