---
type: "Bill"
title: "LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEES: Creates and provides for the Joint Legislative Committee on Technology and Cybersecurity"
description: "LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEES: Creates and provides for the Joint Legislative Committee on Technology and Cybersecurity"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 636"
citation: "Louisiana HB 636 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barry Ivey"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 20
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-02-28"
last_action: "2020-06-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a62257c1-ffe7-4177-8104-1bba5cd2c1c3"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238380"
source_hash: "209045c3bcf1489b4c2717cb4c7fb071c024bef4cc7d24c971e6c59bb5bf4208"
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 636 (2020) — LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEES: Creates and provides for the Joint Legislative Committee on Technology and Cybersecurity

## Version chain

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

1. **HB636 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1163915)
2. **HB636 Act 301** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182379)
3. **HB636 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172187)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1779, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1171476)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1946, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172157)
6. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2198, Cortez, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176988)
7. **HB636 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1178593)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#718) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#263) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#572) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Barry Ivey — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-13** Effective date: 08/01/2020.
- **2020-06-13** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 301. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 95, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2020-05-29** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/20.
- **2020-05-29** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2020-05-29** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-27** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-21** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2020-05-21** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/20.
- **2020-05-15** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-13** Reported with amendments (14-0-1).
- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a62257c1-ffe7-4177-8104-1bba5cd2c1c3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).