republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2020s2/sb-71.md

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Bill	PUBLIC MEETINGS: Provides for participation in certain meetings by teleconferencing or other electronic means for legislative bodies. (gov sig) (Item #25)	PUBLIC MEETINGS: Provides for participation in certain meetings by teleconferencing or other electronic means for legislative bodies. (gov sig) (Item #25)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2020s2	SB 71	Louisiana SB 71 (2020s2)	bill		enacted	Barrow Peacock	8	19	4	2020-10-07	2020-10-28	openstates	ocd-bill/5ced08b9-9507-4638-8316-8c205c66a703	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239644	9a253c32f9b983b48c8b66fc88f57b1f9bd8f450618884162528bcf3725e5d52	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana SB 71 (2020s2) — PUBLIC MEETINGS: Provides for participation in certain meetings by teleconferencing or other electronic means for legislative bodies. (gov sig) (Item #25)

Version chain

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

1. SB71 Original (filed) — source
2. House Committee Amendment, #643, H&G, Draft (committee substitute) — source
3. House Committee Amendment, #655, H&G, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
4. SB71 Act 43 (committee substitute) — source
5. SB71 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
6. SB71 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Floor Amendment, #522, Luneau, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. SB71 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#89) — 27–8 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#220) — 95–0 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR (#180) — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• AMENDMENT # 522 BY LUNEAU, SB 71 BY PEACOCK (#88) — 23–11 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Barrow Peacock — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-10-28 Effective date 10/28/2020.
• 2020-10-28 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 43. executive-signature
• 2020-10-23 Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. executive-receipt
• 2020-10-23 Signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2020-10-22 Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2020-10-22 Rules suspended. Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays.
• 2020-10-21 Received from the House with amendments.
• 2020-10-21 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2020-10-21 Called from the calendar.
• 2020-10-21 Read by title, returned to the calendar.
• 2020-10-20 Scheduled for floor debate on 10/21/20.
• 2020-10-20 Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2020-10-20 Rules suspended.
• 2020-10-20 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
• 2020-10-20 Reported with amendments (11-0-1). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2020-10-14 Received in the House from the Senate, rules suspended, read by title, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. referral-committee
• 2020-10-13 Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 27 yeas and 8 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2020-10-12 Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title; ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2020-10-07 Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. referral-committee

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5ced08b9-9507-4638-8316-8c205c66a703. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).