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LouisianaHB 3852025 Regular SessionHouse

PUBLIC OFFICIALS: Provides that the oath or affirmation of a public official shall be recorded at no charge to the official (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF RV)

Sponsored By: Marcus Anthony Bryant (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

Senate and Governmental AffairsHouse and Governmental Affairs

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

1 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.

Louisiana officials pay no oath recording fees

Louisiana elected and appointed state officials pay no fee for the Secretary of State to record their oaths or affirmations. Parish officials also pay no recording fee to the clerk of court in the parish where the oath is administered. The law retains existing exceptions in a separate subsection not included in this text.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Marcus Anthony Bryant

    Democratic • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 145 • No: 1

Senate vote • 6/8/2025

Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 38 • No: 0

House vote • 4/29/2025

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 94 • No: 1

House vote • 4/23/2025

Reported with amendments

Yes: 13 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 269.

    6/11/2025House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2025.

    6/11/2025House

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

    6/9/2025House

  4. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    6/9/2025Senate

  5. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    6/9/2025House

  6. Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    6/8/2025Senate

  7. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    6/8/2025House

  8. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    6/4/2025Senate

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

    6/4/2025Senate

  10. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs.

    4/30/2025Senate

  11. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/29/2025House

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

    4/29/2025Senate

  13. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/29/2025.

    4/28/2025House

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

    4/24/2025House

  15. Reported with amendments (13-0).

    4/23/2025House

  16. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.

    4/14/2025House

  17. Prefiled.

    4/3/2025House

  18. Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.

    4/3/2025House

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