---
type: "Bill"
title: "PUBLIC RECORDS: Provides relative to the confidentiality of certain records"
description: "PUBLIC RECORDS: Provides relative to the confidentiality of certain records"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 268"
citation: "Louisiana HB 268 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mike Johnson"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 34
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-02-28"
last_action: "2024-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4c44e9f6-ce63-41f5-a2ab-c19ff98042a8"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245892"
source_hash: "f3a822ea4245891b104cbb85f3ebba9fc56362eb03d8a3daec59029be30ac298"
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 268 (2024) — PUBLIC RECORDS: Provides relative to the confidentiality of certain records

## Version chain

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

1. **HB268 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1348375)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #5122, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378555)
3. **HB268 Act 495** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382124)
4. **HB268 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361804)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2043, S&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366166)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3226, S&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372661)
7. **HB268 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381284)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#793) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- ADOPT (#1420) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1373) — **89–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#341) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1649) — **86–12** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mike Johnson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-04** Effective date: 06/04/2024.
- **2024-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 495. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-06-04** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-06-02** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-31** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2024-05-31** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2024-05-31** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2024-05-30** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 86, nays 12. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2024-05-29** Conference committee report received.
- **2024-05-29** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/30/2024.
- **2024-05-29** Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules.
- **2024-05-28** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2024-05-28** Senate conference committee members appointed: Fields, Kleinpeter, and Miguez.
- **2024-05-23** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2024-05-23** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
- **2024-05-23** House conferees appointed: Mike Johnson, Beaullieu, and Dewitt.
- **2024-05-23** Read by title, roll called, yeas 89, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
- **2024-05-23** Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
- **2024-05-22** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/23/2024.
- **2024-05-20** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-15** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-14** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-13** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-08** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-15** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-09** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-09** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-08** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/09/2024.
- **2024-04-04** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-03** Reported favorably (11-3). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4c44e9f6-ce63-41f5-a2ab-c19ff98042a8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).