republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2023/sb-201.md

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Bill	PUBLIC MEETINGS: Provides for meetings of boards and commissions via electronic means. (8/1/23) (EN SEE FISC NOTE EX See Note)	PUBLIC MEETINGS: Provides for meetings of boards and commissions via electronic means. (8/1/23) (EN SEE FISC NOTE EX See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2023	SB 201	Louisiana SB 201 (2023)	bill		enacted	Sharon Hewitt	17	29	6	2023-03-31	2023-06-14	openstates	ocd-bill/928f595a-ff02-4648-a613-ab967b70e238	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244625	56d8d32c65e3a1cc37e1d90acc009a74ed5adb0febddc08e1627836d4b404fcd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana SB 201 (2023) — PUBLIC MEETINGS: Provides for meetings of boards and commissions via electronic means. (8/1/23) (EN SEE FISC NOTE EX See Note)

Version chain

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

1. SB201 Original (filed) — source
2. Conference Committee Report, #2977, House Adopted, Senate Adopted (committee substitute) — source
3. House Committee Amendment, #2965, H&G, Draft (committee substitute) — source
4. House Committee Amendment, #3256, H&G, Draft (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #3411, H&G, Draft (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #3441, H&G, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. House Floor Amendment, #3447, Ivey, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. House Floor Amendment, #3592, Miller, G., Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. House Floor Amendment, #4064, Stefanski, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
10. House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2131, BUREAU, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
11. SB201 Act (committee substitute) — source
12. SB201 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
13. SB201 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
14. Senate Committee Amendment, #423, S&G, Draft (committee substitute) — source
15. Senate Committee Amendment, #623, S&G, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
16. Senate Floor Amendment, #719, Hewitt, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
17. SB201 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#86) — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• CO-AUTHORS (#87) — 15–0 (fail) · upper
• ADOPT (#1021) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• REJECT (#916) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1221) — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#945) — 96–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Sharon Hewitt — primary (person)
• Barry Milligan — cosponsor (person)
• Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
• Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
• Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
• Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
• Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
• Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
• Jeremy Stine — cosponsor (person)
• Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
• Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
• Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)
• Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
• Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-06-14 Effective date 8/1/2023.
• 2023-06-14 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 393. 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 96, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
• 2023-06-08 Rules suspended.
• 2023-06-08 Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 38 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: Hewitt, Milligan, and Price.
• 2023-06-07 Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
• 2023-06-07 House conferees appointed: Newell, Stefanski, and Gregory Miller.
• 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 38 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 96, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2023-06-04 Scheduled for floor debate on 06/05/2023.
• 2023-05-25 Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2023-05-24 Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments.
• 2023-05-23 Reported with amendments (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-27 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. referral-committee
• 2023-04-26 Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
• 2023-04-25 Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2023-04-19 Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2023-04-18 Reported with amendments. committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-10 Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. referral-committee
• 2023-03-31 Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. filing, referral-committee

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/928f595a-ff02-4648-a613-ab967b70e238. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).