republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024/sb-255.md

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Bill	COURTS: Provides relative to the districts of the supreme court. (gov sig)	COURTS: Provides relative to the districts of the supreme court. (gov sig)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024	SB 255	Louisiana SB 255 (2024)	bill		enacted	Cleo Fields	8	21	4	2024-03-01	2024-05-01	openstates	ocd-bill/82ecdb63-1449-4fac-9dec-91ca301a3d1a	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246503	96f96c216cc6e924ea6d31bd0a0bfd916c4626812594ea82ca1ed2dff46f4e3b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana SB 255 (2024) — COURTS: Provides relative to the districts of the supreme court. (gov sig)

Version chain

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

1. SB255 Original (filed) — source
2. SB255 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. SB255 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate Committee Amendment, #657, S&G, Draft (committee substitute) — source
5. Senate Committee Amendment, #744, S&G, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. Senate Floor Amendment, #1164, Pressly, Rejected (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Floor Amendment, #1165, Pressly, Rejected (committee substitute) — source
8. SB255 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AMENDMENT # 1164 BY PRESSLY, SB 255 BY FIELDS (#132) — 7–32 (fail) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#713) — 85–9 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#134) — 31–8 (pass) · upper
• AMENDMENT # 1165 BY PRESSLY, SB 255 BY FIELDS (#133) — 9–30 (fail) · upper

Sponsors

• Cleo Fields — primary (person)
• Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
• Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
• Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
• C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
• Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
• Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
• Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
• Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
• Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
• Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
• Foy Gadberry — cosponsor (person)
• Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
• Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
• John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
• Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
• Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
• Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
• Lauren Ventrella — cosponsor (person)
• Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
• Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
• Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
• Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
• R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
• Rashid Young — cosponsor (person)
• Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
• Shaun Mena — cosponsor (person)
• Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)
• Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
• Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
• Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
• Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-05-01 Effective date 5/1/2024.
• 2024-05-01 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 7. became-law, executive-signature
• 2024-04-29 Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 4/25/2024. executive-receipt
• 2024-04-25 Signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2024-04-29 Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate on 4/25/2024. enrolled
• 2024-04-24 Received from the House without amendments. receipt
• 2024-04-24 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 85, nays 9. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2024-04-24 Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
• 2024-04-23 Scheduled for floor debate on 04/24/2024.
• 2024-04-09 Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2024-04-08 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
• 2024-04-04 Reported favorably (16-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-27 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. referral-committee
• 2024-03-26 Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
• 2024-03-26 Read by title, passed by a vote of 31 yeas and 8 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2024-03-19 Read by title; made Special Order of the Day No. 1 for March 26, 2024.
• 2024-03-19 Rules suspended.
• 2024-03-18 Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2024-03-13 Reported with amendments. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-11 Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. referral-committee
• 2024-03-01 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/82ecdb63-1449-4fac-9dec-91ca301a3d1a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).