---
type: "Bill"
title: "COURTS: Authorizes the Twenty-Fifth Judicial District Court to hold certain sessions of court west of the Mississippi River"
description: "COURTS: Authorizes the Twenty-Fifth Judicial District Court to hold certain sessions of court west of the Mississippi River"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 552"
citation: "Louisiana HB 552 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jacob Braud"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f09d45d2-48d8-4858-9d68-28743ab522c1"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246310"
source_hash: "7d35647d2ca6f0af6f792da747020c38ad9bec7848ac44102b429c1ee758bf3e"
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 552 (2024) — COURTS: Authorizes the Twenty-Fifth Judicial District Court to hold certain sessions of court west of the Mississippi River

## Version chain

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

1. **HB552 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1351664)
2. **HB552 Act 706** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382728)
3. **HB552 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362767)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2707, JUDA, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370137)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3134, JUDA, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372207)
6. **HB552 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379250)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#716) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1461) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#451) — **103–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jacob Braud — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-19** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-19** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 706. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-28** Read by title, roll called, yeas 100, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-05-22** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/28/2024.
- **2024-05-15** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-14** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-13** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-08** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-07** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-15** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-11** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 103, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-09** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/11/2024.
- **2024-04-09** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-08** Reported favorably (16-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f09d45d2-48d8-4858-9d68-28743ab522c1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).