republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024s3/sb-5.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	COURTS: Constitutional amendment to provide for elections to fill newly-created judgeships and judicial vacancies and for exceptions as to courts of limited or specialized jurisdictions. (2/3 - CA13s1(A)) (Item #20) (EN NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)	COURTS: Constitutional amendment to provide for elections to fill newly-created judgeships and judicial vacancies and for exceptions as to courts of limited or specialized jurisdictions. (2/3 - CA13s1(A)) (Item #20) (EN NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024s3	SB 5	Louisiana SB 5 (2024s3)	bill		enacted	Jay Morris	11	22	3	2024-11-06	2024-11-25	openstates	ocd-bill/be8c5473-4fbe-42e6-ba4a-f0ca470f711a	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247865	de28d1cb739d22ce9321aa7d1cdc5ff6fe5c57a4347e2fd161f771c47596ea65	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana SB 5 (2024s3) — COURTS: Constitutional amendment to provide for elections to fill newly-created judgeships and judicial vacancies and for exceptions as to courts of limited or specialized jurisdictions. (2/3 - CA13s1(A)) (Item #20) (EN NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)

Version chain

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

1. SB5 Original (filed) — source
2. House Floor Amendment, #218, McMakin, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
3. SB5 Act 4 (committee substitute) — source
4. SB5 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. SB5 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
6. Senate Committee Amendment, #28, JUDA, Draft (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Committee Amendment, #29, JUDA, Draft (committee substitute) — source
8. Senate Committee Amendment, #33, JUDA, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. Senate Committee Amendment, #57, FNCE, Draft (committee substitute) — source
10. Senate Committee Amendment, #60, FNCE, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
11. SB5 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#87) — 72–25 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#12) — 29–7 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR (#52) — 28–10 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jay Morris — primary (person)
• Dixon McMakin — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-11-25 Effective date: See Act.
• 2024-11-25 Becomes Act No. 4 became-law
• 2024-11-22 Sent to the Secretary of State by the Secretary of the Senate on 11/25/2024.
• 2024-11-25 Signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2024-11-22 Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate on 11/25/2024. enrolled
• 2024-11-22 Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 28 yeas and 10 nays.
• 2024-11-22 Received from the House with amendments. receipt
• 2024-11-22 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 72, nays 25. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2024-11-21 Scheduled for floor debate on 11/22/2024.
• 2024-11-20 Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2024-11-20 Rules suspended.
• 2024-11-20 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
• 2024-11-19 Reported without amendments (11-0-1). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2024-11-18 Read by title, recommitted to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure.
• 2024-11-18 Rules suspended.
• 2024-11-18 Reported favorably (7-6). To be recommitted to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-11-14 Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. referral-committee
• 2024-11-14 Received in the House from the Senate.
• 2024-11-14 Read by title, passed by a vote of 29 yeas and 7 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2024-11-13 Read by title; Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered reengrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2024-11-07 Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted; ordered engrossed and recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
• 2024-11-06 Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. referral-committee

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/be8c5473-4fbe-42e6-ba4a-f0ca470f711a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).