republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2020/hb-53.md

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Bill	JUDGES: Provides relative to the election of judges for the 2nd JDC	JUDGES: Provides relative to the election of judges for the 2nd JDC	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2020	HB 53	Louisiana HB 53 (2020)	bill		enacted	Patrick O. Jefferson	7	24	2	2020-02-12	2020-06-11	openstates	ocd-bill/7472e727-8093-439f-b434-d74802a607b2	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237469	84944d3b18251f9ae86a16c81e449366aebf3d319acd7b8b12a267c8ec321dcf	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 53 (2020) — JUDGES: Provides relative to the election of judges for the 2nd JDC

Version chain

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

1. HB53 Original (filed) — source
2. HB53 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. HB53 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB53 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #1142, JUD, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. House Floor Amendment, #1936, Jefferson, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. HB53 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• HB 53 BY JEFFERSON (#235) — 94–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#404) — 33–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Patrick O. Jefferson — primary (person)
• Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-06-11 Effective date: 06/11/2020.
• 2020-06-11 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 166. executive-signature
• 2020-06-01 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2020-05-29 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2020-05-28 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2020-05-28 Received from the Senate without amendments.
• 2020-05-27 Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2020-05-26 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2020-05-26 Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2020-05-21 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. referral-committee
• 2020-05-20 Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
• 2020-05-20 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2020-05-20 Called from the calendar.
• 2020-05-15 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/20/20.
• 2020-05-15 Notice given.
• 2020-05-07 Read by title, returned to the calendar.
• 2020-03-16 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/07/20.
• 2020-03-12 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2020-03-12 Rules suspended.
• 2020-03-12 Reported with amendments (13-0).
• 2020-03-09 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. referral-committee
• 2020-02-14 First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/14/2020.
• 2020-02-12 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. referral-committee
• 2020-02-12 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7472e727-8093-439f-b434-d74802a607b2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).