---
type: "Bill"
title: "COURTS/COURT COSTS: Provides relative to deferral of costs and fees associated with electronic filing requirements (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "COURTS/COURT COSTS: Provides relative to deferral of costs and fees associated with electronic filing requirements (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 123"
citation: "Louisiana HB 123 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Josh Carlson"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-25"
last_action: "2025-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d52cd8cc-3498-4535-8141-14152c303aa5"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248022"
source_hash: "50cc05e1406fe5876550c9cf3e628e530a7baf517a6092b291b286c8cf26998c"
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 123 (2025) — COURTS/COURT COSTS: Provides relative to deferral of costs and fees associated with electronic filing requirements (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB123 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1398525)
2. **HB123 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425049)
3. **HB123 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408313)
4. **HB123 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411330)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1631, JUD, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408280)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #1926, Carlson, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409596)
7. **HB123 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419689)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#179) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#451) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Josh Carlson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-08** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 145. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-02** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-05-29** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-05-29** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-21** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-20** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-19** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-07** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-06** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-05** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-04-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/05/2025.
- **2025-04-28** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-24** Reported with amendments (13-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-28** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/28/2025.
- **2025-03-25** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-25** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d52cd8cc-3498-4535-8141-14152c303aa5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).