---
type: "Bill"
title: "PUBLIC RECORDS: Provides relative to the costs for public records. (8/1/23)"
description: "PUBLIC RECORDS: Provides relative to the costs for public records. (8/1/23)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 213"
citation: "Louisiana SB 213 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Royce Duplessis"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-31"
last_action: "2023-06-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ea6f2743-d8c9-4f2b-8315-cfe6068243ac"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244637"
source_hash: "b1f0d3bb336da0a25dc04616aa48a34ed13b52508a4f9deb70991dddf89a8124"
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 SB 213 (2023) — PUBLIC RECORDS: Provides relative to the costs for public records. (8/1/23)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB213 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1310038)
2. **SB213 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332335)
3. **SB213 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318575)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1235, S&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318306)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1283, S&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318555)
6. **SB213 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329975)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#947) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#233) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Royce Duplessis — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-09** Effective date 8/1/2023.
- **2023-06-09** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 247. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-07** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-07** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2023-06-06** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-05** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-05** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-06-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/05/2023.
- **2023-05-25** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-24** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2023-05-23** Reported favorably (8-0-1). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-08** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2023-05-08** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-04** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2023-05-03** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-31** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ea6f2743-d8c9-4f2b-8315-cfe6068243ac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).