republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2020/sb-270.md

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Bill	COURTS: Increases the daily compensation paid to jurors in civil cases. (1/1/21) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)	COURTS: Increases the daily compensation paid to jurors in civil cases. (1/1/21) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2020	SB 270	Louisiana SB 270 (2020)	bill		enacted	Cleo Fields	10	18	5	2020-02-27	2020-06-11	openstates	ocd-bill/2e8a95f6-07e8-4ae8-a315-e3b958f2d70c	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238042	925a9cbff69a24a2f5e6fb904ee64b036504f115a7666fa0111d8b0c81af0010	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana SB 270 (2020) — COURTS: Increases the daily compensation paid to jurors in civil cases. (1/1/21) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

Version chain

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

1. SB270 Original (filed) — source
2. House Floor Amendment, #2736, Seabaugh, Rejected (committee substitute) — source
3. House Floor Amendment, #2741, Jordan, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
4. House Floor Amendment, #2755, Seabaugh, Withdrawn (committee substitute) — source
5. House Floor Amendment, #2758, Frieman, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. SB270 Act 237 (committee substitute) — source
7. SB270 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
8. SB270 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
9. Senate Floor Bureau Note, #1453, Fields, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
10. SB270 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AMENDMENT # 2758 BY FRIEMAN (#530) — 66–29 (pass) · lower
• AMENDMENT # 2736 BY SEABAUGH (#529) — 44–54 (fail) · lower
• CONCUR (#610) — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#531) — 66–32 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#206) — 33–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Cleo Fields — primary (person)
• Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
• Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
• C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
• C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
• Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
• Dustin Miller — cosponsor (person)
• Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
• Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
• Edward Ted James — cosponsor (person)
• Frederick D. Jones — cosponsor (person)
• Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
• Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
• Jeremy LaCombe — cosponsor (person)
• Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
• Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
• Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
• Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
• Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
• Mandie Landry — cosponsor (person)
• Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
• Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
• Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
• Randal L. Gaines — cosponsor (person)
• Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
• Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
• Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
• Tammy Phelps — cosponsor (person)
• Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
• Wilford Carter , Sr. — 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. 237. 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 36 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 66, nays 32. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2020-05-22 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/28/20.
• 2020-05-22 Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2020-05-21 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
• 2020-05-20 Reported favorably (11-0). 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 33 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
• 2020-02-27 Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. filing, referral-committee

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2e8a95f6-07e8-4ae8-a315-e3b958f2d70c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).