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type: "Bill"
title: "CORPORATIONS: Provides for revisions to the Business Corporation Act relative to virtual shareholder meetings and mergers. (gov sig) (Item #53)"
description: "CORPORATIONS: Provides for revisions to the Business Corporation Act relative to virtual shareholder meetings and mergers. (gov sig) (Item #53)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020s2"
identifier: "SB 33"
citation: "Louisiana SB 33 (2020s2)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Franklin J. Foil"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-09-29"
last_action: "2020-10-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6e4d6612-40c5-46d9-b8a7-5e75b661b57f"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239514"
source_hash: "843820747dc9d1986ac2d91e0f398da89c421d10e3a614729f23d14158f018e4"
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 33 (2020s2) — CORPORATIONS: Provides for revisions to the Business Corporation Act relative to virtual shareholder meetings and mergers. (gov sig) (Item #53)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **SB33 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1189612)
2. **SB33 Act 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1193325)
3. **SB33 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1189986)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #142, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1189700)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #160, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1189847)
6. **SB33 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1191400)
## Votes
- CO-AUTHORS (#22) — **230** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#52) — **911** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#21) — **320** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Franklin J. Foil — primary (person)
- Barry Milligan — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Carter — 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 Orgeron — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Mack Bodi White, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person)
- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
- Neil Riser — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Connick — 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)
- Scott McKnight — 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.
- **2020-10-16** Effective date 10/16/2020.
- **2020-10-16** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 3. `executive-signature`
- **2020-10-12** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 10/8/2020. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-10-12** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-10-12** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate on 10/8/2020.
- **2020-10-07** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2020-10-06** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, nays 1. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-10-05** Scheduled for floor debate on 10/06/20.
- **2020-10-05** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-10-05** Rules suspended.
- **2020-10-05** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2020-10-05** Reported favorably (15-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-10-02** Received in the House from the Senate, rules suspended, read by title, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2020-10-01** Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-09-30** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Read by title; Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-09-29** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `referral-committee`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6e4d6612-40c5-46d9-b8a7-5e75b661b57f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).