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Louisiana 2026

HB 227

CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides that filings may be made on letter size rather than legal size paper

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Official record

Measure details

Jurisdiction
Louisiana
Session
2026
Chamber
lower
Classification
bill
Subjects
Not supplied
Introduced / first action
2026-02-19 00:00:00

Sponsors

Source-supplied history

Actions

  1. Becomes Act No. 927 without the Governor's signature.

    became-law

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    executive-receipt

  4. Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.

    enrolled

  5. Signed by the President of the Senate.

  6. Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    passage

  7. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    receipt

  8. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.

    reading-3

  9. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

  10. Reported favorably.

    committee-passage-favorable

  11. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A.

    reading-2, referral-committee

  12. Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

    reading-1

  13. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    passage

  14. Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.

    reading-3

  15. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/29/2026.

  16. Reported favorably (17-0).

    committee-passage-favorable

  17. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

    referral-committee

  18. First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/20/2026.

  19. Prefiled.

    filing

  20. Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

    referral-committee

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