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type: "Bill"
title: "COURTS: Provides relative to costs for filing a legislative continuance or extension"
description: "COURTS: Provides relative to costs for filing a legislative continuance or extension"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 731"
citation: "Louisiana HB 731 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Marcus Hunter"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-26"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/823d5703-593a-4469-9dc4-47959a818e36"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=234495"
source_hash: "58926843e4e4801c4e3c48fdbb24b77412dfd1d01e1cbd37624247049bf34a7b"
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 731 (2018) — COURTS: Provides relative to costs for filing a legislative continuance or extension
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **HB731 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1078944)
2. **HB731 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1098001)
3. **HB731 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1082032)
4. **HB731 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1094615)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#349) — **8110** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#845) — **320** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Marcus Hunter — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-05-15** Effective date: 08/01/2018.
- **2018-05-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 180. `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-10** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-10** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2018-05-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2018-05-08** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2018-05-08** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2018-05-03** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2018-05-02** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2018-05-01** Reported favorably.
- **2018-04-12** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-11** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2018-04-10** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 81, nays 10. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2018-04-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/10/18.
- **2018-04-04** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-04-03** Reported favorably (7-0).
- **2018-03-27** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-26** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/823d5703-593a-4469-9dc4-47959a818e36`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).