republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2023/sb-142.md

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Bill	COURTS: Authorizes the utilization of court reporters licensed in another state in certain circumstances. (8/1/23)	COURTS: Authorizes the utilization of court reporters licensed in another state in certain circumstances. (8/1/23)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2023	SB 142	Louisiana SB 142 (2023)	bill		enacted	Gary Carter	14	31	5	2023-03-31	2023-06-12	openstates	ocd-bill/7e955acd-531c-4e23-93f0-f7d20a076ed8	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244434	a225e198319bdc5cf31b5f6f039eb2c00d53bd9289508a43ca9508336a756bf9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana SB 142 (2023) — COURTS: Authorizes the utilization of court reporters licensed in another state in certain circumstances. (8/1/23)

Version chain

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

1. SB142 Original (filed) — source
2. Conference Committee Report, #2992, House Adopted, Senate Adopted (committee substitute) — source
3. House Committee Amendment, #3545, JUD, Draft (committee substitute) — source
4. House Committee Amendment, #3547, JUD, Draft (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #3584, JUD, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. House Floor Amendment, #3896, Orgeron, Withdrawn (committee substitute) — source
7. House Floor Amendment, #4052, Jordan, Withdrawn (committee substitute) — source
8. House Floor Amendment, #4102, Orgeron, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2256, BUREAU, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
10. SB142 Act 326 (committee substitute) — source
11. SB142 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
12. SB142 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
13. Senate Floor Amendment, #1025, Carter, Gary, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
14. SB142 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• REJECT (#904) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#997) — 56–45 (pass) · lower
• ADOPT (#1016) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#144) — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1215) — 83–11 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Gary Carter — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-06-12 Effective date 8/1/2023.
• 2023-06-12 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 326. became-law, executive-signature
• 2023-06-08 Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. executive-receipt
• 2023-06-08 Signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2023-06-08 Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. enrolled
• 2023-06-08 Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
• 2023-06-08 Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 83, nays 11. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
• 2023-06-08 Rules suspended.
• 2023-06-08 Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays.
• 2023-06-08 Conference Committee report received.
• 2023-06-07 Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
• 2023-06-07 Senate conference committee members appointed: Carter, Peacock, and Harris.
• 2023-06-07 Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
• 2023-06-07 House conferees appointed: Jordan, Gaines, and Hughes.
• 2023-06-07 Notice of Senate rejecting House amendments.
• 2023-06-06 Rules suspended. Amendments proposed by the House read and rejected by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays.
• 2023-06-05 Received from the House with amendments. receipt
• 2023-06-05 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 56, nays 45. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2023-06-05 Called from the calendar.
• 2023-06-05 Read by title, returned to the calendar.
• 2023-06-04 Scheduled for floor debate on 06/05/2023.
• 2023-05-31 Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2023-05-30 Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments.
• 2023-05-25 Reported with amendments (6-3). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-02 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. referral-committee
• 2023-05-01 Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
• 2023-04-27 Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2023-04-26 Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2023-04-25 Reported favorably. committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-10 Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. referral-committee
• 2023-03-31 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/7e955acd-531c-4e23-93f0-f7d20a076ed8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).