republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2020/hb-274.md

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Bill	NOTARIES: Provides for the execution of electronic notarial acts	NOTARIES: Provides for the execution of electronic notarial acts	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2020	HB 274	Louisiana HB 274 (2020)	bill		enacted	Ray Garofalo	10	17	3	2020-02-26	2020-06-11	openstates	ocd-bill/7ebe1550-316e-44de-952f-c37898fbde7f	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237845	ac46e228e8227b3c8a911bb264f0f922c8acce393aacba4efcc18a936a099eb1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 274 (2020) — NOTARIES: Provides for the execution of electronic notarial acts

Version chain

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

1. HB274 Original (filed) — source
2. HB274 Act 254 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB274 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB274 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #1434, CL&P, Draft (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #2004, CL&P, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. House Floor Amendment, #2084, Horton, Rejected (committee substitute) — source
8. House Floor Amendment, #2518, Garofalo, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1532, Horton, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
10. HB274 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AMENDMENT # 2084 BY HORTON, MOTION TO ADOPT (#382) — 19–73 (fail) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#383) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#555) — 26–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ray Garofalo — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-06-11 Effective date: See Act.
• 2020-06-11 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 254. executive-signature
• 2020-06-02 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2020-05-31 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2020-05-29 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2020-05-29 Received from the Senate without amendments.
• 2020-05-29 Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 26 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2020-05-27 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2020-05-27 Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2020-05-25 Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. referral-committee
• 2020-05-22 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2020-05-20 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/20.
• 2020-05-18 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2020-05-15 Reported with amendments (11-0-1).
• 2020-03-09 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. referral-committee
• 2020-02-26 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. referral-committee
• 2020-02-26 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7ebe1550-316e-44de-952f-c37898fbde7f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).