2025 Regular Session
SB116
Provides for reciprocal notarial authority of notaries qualified in St. Martin Parish and St. Landry Parish. (8/1/25)
Legislative progress
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Partner positions
Dislikes
REMOVE ALL THE CARVEOUTS and GRANT STATEWIDE JURISDICTION. Statewide jurisdiction already exist for notaries who meet the criteria outlined in LARS 35:191(P)(1)
Recorded floor votes
2 roll calls are available for this bill. This record includes procedural and intermediate action as well as substantive final votes.
April 22, 2025 · Senate
Senate Vote on SB 116 FINAL PASSAGE (#28)
Passed ⭐ Substantive final action
37 yea–0 nay · 2 absent
May 22, 2025 · House
House Vote on SB 116 FINAL PASSAGE (#591)
Passed ⭐ Substantive final action
90 yea–0 nay · 15 absent
Committee referrals
April 24, 2025 · House
Civil Law and Procedure
April 3, 2025 · Senate
Judiciary A
Instrument history
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This is the complete recorded action history in the current source package. Highlighted entries are marked as significant by the source. A roll-call link appears only when a vote-like action has one unambiguous same-day chamber vote.
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Senate Effective date 8/1/2025.
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Senate Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 40.
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Senate Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate.
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House Signed by the Speaker of the House.
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Senate Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
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Senate Received from the House without amendments.
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House Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. View roll call
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House Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/2025.
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House Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
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House Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
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House Reported favorably (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
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House Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure.
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House Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
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Senate Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. View roll call
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Senate Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
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Senate Reported favorably.
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Senate Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A.
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Senate Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary A.