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LouisianaHB 2272026 Regular SessionHouse

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

Sponsored By: Lauren Ventrella (Republican)

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Bill Overview

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Louisiana lawyers get new court-filing rules

Beginning January 1, 2026, attorneys filing under Louisiana's covered civil and criminal rules must file paper documents in person or electronically. Electronic filings must use a system established by a court clerk or the Louisiana Clerks’ Remote Access Authority. Paper and electronic filings can use either letter-size or legal-size paper. Filers must leave out the first five Social Security number digits, tax identification numbers, state identification numbers, driver's license numbers, and financial account numbers. These provisions no longer ban full birth dates, but information protected by other state or federal laws remains barred. Court clerks must adopt systems for electronic filing and storage. Civil systems must cover pleadings, documents, and exhibits filed with pleadings; criminal systems exclude documents introduced and filed at hearings or trials. In courts accepting electronic filings, the electronic record is the official record. If the clerk accepts an electronic filing, its filing date and time come from the electronic confirmation. Public access follows the same rules as access to written filings.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Lauren Ventrella

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 145 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/26/2026

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.

Yes: 37 • No: 0

House vote • 4/29/2026

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

Yes: 91 • No: 0

House vote • 4/23/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 17 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

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

    6/23/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    6/23/2026House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/28/2026House

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

    5/27/2026House

  5. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/27/2026Senate

  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.

    5/26/2026Senate

  7. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/26/2026House

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

    5/21/2026Senate

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

    5/20/2026Senate

  10. Reported favorably.

    5/19/2026Senate

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

    5/5/2026Senate

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

    5/4/2026Senate

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

    4/29/2026House

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

    4/27/2026House

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

    4/27/2026House

  16. Reported favorably (17-0).

    4/23/2026House

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

    3/9/2026House

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

    2/20/2026House

  19. Prefiled.

    2/19/2026House

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

    2/19/2026House

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