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type: "Bill"
title: "APPROPRIATIONS: Appropriates funds for the expenses of the judiciary for Fiscal Year 2020-2021 (Item #4)"
description: "APPROPRIATIONS: Appropriates funds for the expenses of the judiciary for Fiscal Year 2020-2021 (Item #4)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020s1"
identifier: "HB 7"
citation: "Louisiana HB 7 (2020s1)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jerome Zeringue"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-06-01"
last_action: "2020-07-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/56092f89-a1ec-475a-b4d5-6b8ee02ee684"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239119"
source_hash: "8385263cc01acd0bfef10e5955a079db21fd0af31d72820bd4d04f0fa47f783e"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
---
# Louisiana HB 7 (2020s1) — APPROPRIATIONS: Appropriates funds for the expenses of the judiciary for Fiscal Year 2020-2021 (Item #4)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **HB7 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1178835)
2. **HB7 Act 7** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1185637)
3. **HB7 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1180056)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #365, FNCE, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1183639)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #404, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1183957)
6. **Senate Floor Amendment, #492, White, B, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1184286)
7. **HB7 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1184793)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#15) — **970** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#143) — **930** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#134) — **370** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Jerome Zeringue — primary (person)
- Clay Schexnayder — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Mack Bodi White, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-07-08** Effective date: 07/01/2020.
- **2020-07-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 7. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-29** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-06-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-06-29** Read by title, roll called, yeas 93, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2020-06-28** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/29/20.
- **2020-06-28** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2020-06-26** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-06-25** Read by title; made Special Order of the Day No. 1 for 06/26.
- **2020-06-25** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-06-24** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-06-17** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2020-06-17** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
- **2020-06-11** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance. `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-10** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-06-05** Made Special Order of the day No. 3 for 06/10/20.
- **2020-06-05** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-06-05** Rules suspended.
- **2020-06-05** Reported favorably (17-0).
- **2020-06-01** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/56092f89-a1ec-475a-b4d5-6b8ee02ee684`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).