---
type: "Bill"
title: "COURTS/COURT COSTS: Increases the fees for the Alexandria City Marshal in criminal matters"
description: "COURTS/COURT COSTS: Increases the fees for the Alexandria City Marshal in criminal matters"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 51"
citation: "Louisiana HB 51 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jason Dewitt"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-02-01"
last_action: "2024-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7f13064d-b3f2-49ef-91c1-b91c96952075"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245571"
source_hash: "87b91c99315643190eb15d92140d5ad5986fb0a6e2ba0e67594bb2c305e61a02"
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 51 (2024) — COURTS/COURT COSTS: Increases the fees for the Alexandria City Marshal in criminal matters

## Version chain

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

1. **HB51 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1341870)
2. **HB51 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381945)
3. **HB51 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362755)
4. **HB51 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364605)
5. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1671, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362970)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2739, JUDB, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370195)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2773, JUDB, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370309)
8. **HB51 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377197)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1176) — **83–3** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#413) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#635) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jason Dewitt — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-03** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-03** Becomes Act No. 465 without the Governor's signature. `became-law`
- **2024-05-23** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-23** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-22** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-21** Read by title, roll called, yeas 83, nays 3. The Senate amendments, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, were concurred in.
- **2024-05-20** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/21/2024.
- **2024-05-14** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-13** 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`
- **2024-05-06** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-01** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-04-30** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-15** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-10** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-09** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/10/2024.
- **2024-04-09** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-08** Reported favorably (14-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/2/2024.
- **2024-02-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7f13064d-b3f2-49ef-91c1-b91c96952075`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).