---
type: "Bill"
title: "APPROPRIATIONS: Appropriates funds for the expenses of the judiciary for Fiscal Year 2023-2024"
description: "APPROPRIATIONS: Appropriates funds for the expenses of the judiciary for Fiscal Year 2023-2024"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 104"
citation: "Louisiana HB 104 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jerome Zeringue"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-14"
last_action: "2023-06-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5482480b-f6a8-4a15-ae6d-1a4ccf138d8f"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=243947"
source_hash: "9666b85ef3c895d99e3a4891eabd4d37b9ae85104c3d3916fc4542c6f8ba59b7"
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 104 (2023) — APPROPRIATIONS: Appropriates funds for the expenses of the judiciary for Fiscal Year 2023-2024

## Version chain

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

1. **HB104 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1303092)
2. **HB104 Act 400** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332738)
3. **HB104 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317784)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1458, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313734)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2099, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317715)
6. **HB104 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329979)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#812) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#233) — **105–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jerome Zeringue — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-15** Effective date: 07/01/2023.
- **2023-06-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 400. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-07** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-07** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-05** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-05** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-06-02** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-06-01** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-31** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-09** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-08** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-04** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 105, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-02** Made Special Order of the day No. 6 for 05/04/2023.
- **2023-05-02** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-01** Reported with amendments (17-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-17** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/17/2023.
- **2023-03-14** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-14** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5482480b-f6a8-4a15-ae6d-1a4ccf138d8f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).