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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "NOTARIES: Provides for the execution of electronic notarial acts"
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description: "NOTARIES: Provides for the execution of electronic notarial acts"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
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legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
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session: "2020"
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identifier: "HB 274"
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citation: "Louisiana HB 274 (2020)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Ray Garofalo"]
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version_count: 10
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action_count: 17
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vote_count: 3
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first_action: "2020-02-26"
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last_action: "2020-06-11"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7ebe1550-316e-44de-952f-c37898fbde7f"
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source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237845"
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source_hash: "ac46e228e8227b3c8a911bb264f0f922c8acce393aacba4efcc18a936a099eb1"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
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---
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# Louisiana HB 274 (2020) — NOTARIES: Provides for the execution of electronic notarial acts
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **HB274 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1160388)
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2. **HB274 Act 254** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182325)
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3. **HB274 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172688)
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4. **HB274 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1175625)
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5. **House Committee Amendment, #1434, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169088)
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6. **House Committee Amendment, #2004, CL&P, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172677)
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7. **House Floor Amendment, #2084, Horton, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1173178)
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8. **House Floor Amendment, #2518, Garofalo, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1175357)
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9. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1532, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172744)
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10. **HB274 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177763)
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## Votes
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- AMENDMENT # 2084 BY HORTON, MOTION TO ADOPT (#382) — **19–73** (fail) · lower
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- FINAL PASSAGE (#383) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
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- FINAL PASSAGE (#555) — **26–1** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Ray Garofalo — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2020-06-11** Effective date: See Act.
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- **2020-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 254. `executive-signature`
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- **2020-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
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- **2020-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
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- **2020-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
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- **2020-05-29** Received from the Senate without amendments.
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- **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`
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- **2020-05-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
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- **2020-05-27** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
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- **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`
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- **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`
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- **2020-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/20.
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- **2020-05-18** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
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- **2020-05-15** Reported with amendments (11-0-1).
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- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
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- **2020-02-26** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
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- **2020-02-26** Prefiled. `filing`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7ebe1550-316e-44de-952f-c37898fbde7f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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