---
type: "Bill"
title: "COURTS/COURT REPORTERS: Provides relative to court reporter fees in the Fourteenth Judicial District (EN INCREASE LF RV See Note)"
description: "COURTS/COURT REPORTERS: Provides relative to court reporter fees in the Fourteenth Judicial District (EN INCREASE LF RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 789"
citation: "Louisiana HB 789 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ryan Bourriaque"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-26"
last_action: "2024-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ad2b7fa6-4c2b-41da-9d31-c1c29cf40d08"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246913"
source_hash: "fb4d79339ace0e229df0fbb51dde54a03d10367b1ab7ac39e828e137de99675a"
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 789 (2024) — COURTS/COURT REPORTERS: Provides relative to court reporter fees in the Fourteenth Judicial District (EN INCREASE LF RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB789 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358365)
2. **HB789 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379572)
3. **HB789 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367192)
4. **HB789 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370007)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2983, JUD, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365416)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #3352, JUD, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367176)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #3632, Bourriaque, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1368516)
8. **HB789 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374835)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#720) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#744) — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ryan Bourriaque — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-23** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-05-23** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 234. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-16** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-15** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-15** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-14** 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`
- **2024-05-13** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-08** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-07** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-01** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-30** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-29** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-25** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/29/2024.
- **2024-04-22** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-18** Reported with amendments (16-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-27** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-26** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ad2b7fa6-4c2b-41da-9d31-c1c29cf40d08`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).