---
type: "Bill"
title: "COURTS: Provides relative to commissioners of the Nineteenth Judicial District Court (EN +$456,800 LF EX See Note)"
description: "COURTS: Provides relative to commissioners of the Nineteenth Judicial District Court (EN +$456,800 LF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 217"
citation: "Louisiana HB 217 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Vanessa Caston LaFleur"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-27"
last_action: "2023-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/07948bfd-b7c2-48fa-9515-6edffef93684"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244082"
source_hash: "ea8ac886540c9ad0dd5ba1cb2d642e1f7d807b9b293f39242442a50872fb651d"
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 217 (2023) — COURTS: Provides relative to commissioners of the Nineteenth Judicial District Court (EN +$456,800 LF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB217 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1305766)
2. **HB217 Act 229** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332291)
3. **HB217 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321363)
4. **HB217 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329446)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#684) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#547) — **90–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — primary (person)
- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
- Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Paula Davis — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-08** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 229. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-07** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-06** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-05** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-04** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-04** 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`
- **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.
- **2023-06-01** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
- **2023-05-31** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2023-05-30** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-23** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-22** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/2023.
- **2023-05-15** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-11** Reported favorably (8-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-27** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/07948bfd-b7c2-48fa-9515-6edffef93684`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).