republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2020/sb-115.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS: Provides relative to advertisements for legal services. (1/1/21)"
description: "COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS: Provides relative to advertisements for legal services. (1/1/21)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 115"
citation: "Louisiana SB 115 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patrick Connick"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 18
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-02-24"
last_action: "2020-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fd1a2a31-6174-4a7e-b15e-5e0ac71cb3f6"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237665"
source_hash: "7480c6ff06d3f49fad81cb0aadcaff111399955523d7515ba3f5c5420a409b41"
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 SB 115 (2020) — COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS: Provides relative to advertisements for legal services. (1/1/21)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB115 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1158582)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #2289, JUD, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1174136)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #2347, JUD, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1174448)
4. **House Floor Amendment, #2677, Magee, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176316)
5. **SB115 Act 231** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182285)
6. **SB115 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1171826)
7. **SB115 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172652)
8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1475, Connick, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172388)
9. **SB115 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1178049)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#203) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR (#604) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#518) — **69–26** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Patrick Connick — primary (person)
- Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- Beau Beaullieu — cosponsor (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Deshotel — cosponsor (person)
- Foy Gadberry — cosponsor (person)
- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Jerome Zeringue — cosponsor (person)
- John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- John Stefanski — cosponsor (person)
- Jonathan Goudeau — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Marino — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
- Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Frieman — cosponsor (person)
- Les Farnum — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Neil Riser — cosponsor (person)
- Nicholas Muscarello — cosponsor (person)
- Paula Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
- Polly Thomas — cosponsor (person)
- Randal L. Gaines — cosponsor (person)
- Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Richard Nelson — cosponsor (person)
- Sherman Q. Mack — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas Pressly — cosponsor (person)
- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
- Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (person)
- William "Bill" Wheat , Jr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-11** Effective date 1/1/2021.
- **2020-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 231. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/2/2020. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-01** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-31** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-29** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2020-05-28** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2020-05-28** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 69, nays 26. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/28/20.
- **2020-05-22** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-21** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2020-05-20** Reported with amendments (12-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-18** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-15** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2020-05-14** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-13** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title; ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-03-09** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-24** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fd1a2a31-6174-4a7e-b15e-5e0ac71cb3f6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).