---
type: "Bill"
title: "CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to electronic filing of documents"
description: "CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to electronic filing of documents"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 164"
citation: "Louisiana HB 164 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Thomas Pressly"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-02-24"
last_action: "2022-05-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6e7327d8-cd4f-4f1c-846b-5caa6decfbb7"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241723"
source_hash: "60c43126e0bfe1c18a684ed0ee04831d77f624d329b3e34bcb9a67edbfe8f3d2"
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 164 (2022) — CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to electronic filing of documents

## Version chain

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

1. **HB164 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1250108)
2. **HB164 Act 115** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1286038)
3. **HB164 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1266455)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1169, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1258521)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2057, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1265859)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2066, CL&P, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1266294)
7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3135, Morris, Jay, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1278478)
8. **HB164 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1281302)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#230) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#613) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1010) — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Thomas Pressly — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-26** Effective date: 08/01/2022.
- **2022-05-26** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 115. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-24** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-24** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-23** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-19** Read by title, roll called, yeas 94, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2022-05-17** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/19/2022.
- **2022-05-17** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2022-05-16** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-05-09** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-05-04** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-05-03** Reported favorably.
- **2022-04-12** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-11** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-04-11** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-04-07** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/11/2022.
- **2022-04-06** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-04-05** Reported with amendments (15-0).
- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-25** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/25/2022.
- **2022-02-24** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-24** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6e7327d8-cd4f-4f1c-846b-5caa6decfbb7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).