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Bill	REVENUE DEPARTMENT: Requires the Department of Revenue to waive penalties and interest for certain taxpayers for tax years 2019 and 2020 (Item #29) (RE1 DECREASE SG RV See Note)	REVENUE DEPARTMENT: Requires the Department of Revenue to waive penalties and interest for certain taxpayers for tax years 2019 and 2020 (Item #29) (RE1 DECREASE SG RV See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2020s1	HB 37	Louisiana HB 37 (2020s1)	bill		enacted	Lance Harris	11	18	4	2020-06-05	2020-07-13	openstates	ocd-bill/1ddcd407-b7f3-4249-bb07-e38756b8230e	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239188	a6d09787e97da0ce331df1f3c2275d8d8c991680a44e2099fcb9afc60e8e0c3c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 37 (2020s1) — REVENUE DEPARTMENT: Requires the Department of Revenue to waive penalties and interest for certain taxpayers for tax years 2019 and 2020 (Item #29) (RE1 DECREASE SG RV See Note)

Version chain

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

1. HB37 Original (filed) — source
2. HB37 Act 31 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB37 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB37 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #172, W&M, Draft (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #207, W&M, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #167, Horton, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. Senate Committee Amendment, #297, R&F, Draft (committee substitute) — source
9. Senate Committee Amendment, #317, R&F, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
10. Senate Floor Amendment, #359, Carter, Troy, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
11. HB37 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#94) — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#47) — 90–2 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#132) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• CO-AUTHORS (#95) — 26–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Lance Harris — primary (person)
• Barrow Peacock — cosponsor (person)
• Barry Milligan — cosponsor (person)
• Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
• Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
• Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
• Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
• Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
• Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
• Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)
• Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
• Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
• Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
• Louie Bernard — cosponsor (person)
• Mack Bodi White, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)
• Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
• Rick Ward, III — cosponsor (person)
• Robert Mills — cosponsor (person)
• Ronnie Johns — cosponsor (person)
• Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)
• Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Troy Carter — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-07-13 Effective date: 07/01/2020.
• 2020-07-13 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 31. executive-signature
• 2020-06-29 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2020-06-28 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2020-06-28 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2020-06-25 Read by title, roll called, yeas 97, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
• 2020-06-24 Scheduled for concurrence on 06/25/20.
• 2020-06-24 Received from the Senate with amendments.
• 2020-06-23 Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2020-06-22 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2020-06-22 Rules suspended. Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2020-06-18 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs. referral-committee
• 2020-06-17 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
• 2020-06-16 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 2. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2020-06-11 Scheduled for floor debate on 06/16/20.
• 2020-06-11 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2020-06-10 Reported with amendments (14-0).
• 2020-06-05 Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. referral-committee

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1ddcd407-b7f3-4249-bb07-e38756b8230e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).