republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024/hb-768.md

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Bill	PUBLIC RECORDS: Provides relative to custodian liability for public records requests	PUBLIC RECORDS: Provides relative to custodian liability for public records requests	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024	HB 768	Louisiana HB 768 (2024)	bill		enacted	Les Farnum	8	22	3	2024-03-25	2024-06-05	openstates	ocd-bill/619a48c1-9927-4bdb-b1fc-0673cbc7e152	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246839	62519b271c9608c14961c80c60e234e1d783fbaaf0d679c991bbb8dbd7e69a40	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 768 (2024) — PUBLIC RECORDS: Provides relative to custodian liability for public records requests

Version chain

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

1. HB768 Original (filed) — source
2. HB768 Act 493 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB768 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB768 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Floor Amendment, #2786, LaFleur, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. Senate Committee Amendment, #3192, S&G, Draft (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Committee Amendment, #3229, S&G, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. HB768 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#414) — 100–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#1101) — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1550) — 92–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Les Farnum — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-06-05 Effective date: 06/05/2024.
• 2024-06-05 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 493. became-law, executive-signature
• 2024-06-03 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2024-05-31 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2024-05-30 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2024-05-29 Read by title, roll called, yeas 92, nays 1, Senate amendments concurred in.
• 2024-05-22 Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2024.
• 2024-05-22 Received from the Senate with amendments. receipt
• 2024-05-22 Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2024-05-14 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2024-05-13 Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2024-05-08 Reported with amendments. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-16 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-04-15 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2024-04-10 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2024-04-10 Called from the calendar.
• 2024-04-10 Read by title, returned to the calendar.
• 2024-04-09 Scheduled for floor debate on 04/10/2024.
• 2024-04-08 Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2024-04-04 Reported favorably (13-0). committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-26 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. referral-committee
• 2024-03-25 Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/619a48c1-9927-4bdb-b1fc-0673cbc7e152. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).