republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2021/hb-216.md

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Bill	CHILDREN: Provides relative to the imposition of court costs in proceedings involving children (EN DECREASE SG RV See Note)	CHILDREN: Provides relative to the imposition of court costs in proceedings involving children (EN DECREASE SG RV See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2021	HB 216	Louisiana HB 216 (2021)	bill		enacted	Royce Duplessis	11	22	3	2021-03-25	2021-06-10	openstates	ocd-bill/e78e5c23-22e0-4620-b81d-871b8bb788af	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240058	ec4bb3f228d4dcc1523539c930aec3389023724ba890bb59049a8336a9d04167	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 216 (2021) — CHILDREN: Provides relative to the imposition of court costs in proceedings involving children (EN DECREASE SG RV See Note)

Version chain

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

1. HB216 Original (filed) — source
2. HB216 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. HB216 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB216 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #2238, JUD, Draft (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #2440, JUD, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. House Floor Amendment, #2546, Duplessis, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1767, Horton, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. Senate Floor Amendment, #3168, Henry, Cameron, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
10. Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2743, BUREAU, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
11. HB216 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#702) — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#443) — 91–0 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1014) — 94–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Royce Duplessis — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-06-10 Effective date: 06/10/2021.
• 2021-06-10 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 123. executive-signature
• 2021-06-09 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2021-06-09 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2021-06-08 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2021-06-07 Read by title, roll called, yeas 94, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
• 2021-06-03 Scheduled for concurrence on 06/07/2021.
• 2021-06-03 Received from the Senate with amendments.
• 2021-06-02 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
• 2021-05-27 Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2021-05-26 Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2021-05-25 Reported favorably.
• 2021-05-18 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. referral-committee
• 2021-05-17 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
• 2021-05-13 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2021-05-10 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/13/2021.
• 2021-05-10 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2021-05-06 Reported with amendments (12-0).
• 2021-04-12 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. referral-committee
• 2021-03-26 First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/26/2021.
• 2021-03-25 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. referral-committee
• 2021-03-25 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e78e5c23-22e0-4620-b81d-871b8bb788af. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).