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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "PUBLIC RECORDS: Provides relative to custodian liability for public records requests"
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description: "PUBLIC RECORDS: Provides relative to custodian liability for public records requests"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
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legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
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session: "2024"
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identifier: "HB 768"
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citation: "Louisiana HB 768 (2024)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Les Farnum"]
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version_count: 8
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action_count: 22
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vote_count: 3
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first_action: "2024-03-25"
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last_action: "2024-06-05"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/619a48c1-9927-4bdb-b1fc-0673cbc7e152"
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source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246839"
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source_hash: "62519b271c9608c14961c80c60e234e1d783fbaaf0d679c991bbb8dbd7e69a40"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
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---
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# Louisiana HB 768 (2024) — PUBLIC RECORDS: Provides relative to custodian liability for public records requests
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **HB768 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1357362)
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2. **HB768 Act 493** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382085)
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3. **HB768 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362405)
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4. **HB768 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364660)
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5. **House Floor Amendment, #2786, LaFleur, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364564)
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6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3192, S&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372548)
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7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3229, S&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372667)
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8. **HB768 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380120)
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## Votes
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- FINAL PASSAGE (#414) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
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- FINAL PASSAGE (#1101) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
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- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1550) — **92–1** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Les Farnum — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2024-06-05** Effective date: 06/05/2024.
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- **2024-06-05** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 493. `became-law, executive-signature`
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- **2024-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
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- **2024-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
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- **2024-05-30** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
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- **2024-05-29** Read by title, roll called, yeas 92, nays 1, Senate amendments concurred in.
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- **2024-05-22** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2024.
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- **2024-05-22** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
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- **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`
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- **2024-05-14** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
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- **2024-05-13** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
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- **2024-05-08** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2024-04-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2024-04-15** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
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- **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`
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- **2024-04-10** Called from the calendar.
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- **2024-04-10** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
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- **2024-04-09** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/10/2024.
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- **2024-04-08** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
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- **2024-04-04** Reported favorably (13-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2024-03-26** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
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- **2024-03-25** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/619a48c1-9927-4bdb-b1fc-0673cbc7e152`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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