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2024 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 757
BY REPRESENTATIVE LAFLEUR
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 13:991(A), relative to court costs; to provide relative to judicial
3 expense funds of district courts; to provide relative to the judicial expense fund for
4 the Nineteenth Judicial District Court; to increase filing fees and court costs in civil
5 suits; and to provide for related matters.
6 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
7 Section 1. R.S. 13:991(A) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
8 ยง991. Judicial expense fund for nineteenth judicial district Nineteenth Judicial
9 District; established
10 A. In addition to all other fees or costs now or hereafter provided by law, the
11 clerk of court of the Nineteenth Judicial District shall collect from every person
12 filing any type of civil suit or proceeding and who is not otherwise exempted by law
13 from the payment of court costs, a sum to be determined by the judges of said
14 district, sitting en banc, which sum shall not exceed fifteen of sixty dollars, subject,
15 however, to the provisions of Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure, Article 5181, et
16 seq.; and, in all criminal cases over which the Nineteenth Judicial District Court has
17 jurisdiction, there shall be taxed as costs against every defendant who is convicted
18 after trial or after plea of guilty or who forfeits his bond, a sum likewise determined
19 but which shall not exceed five dollars, shall be in addition to all other fines, costs
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1 or forfeitures lawfully imposed and which shall be transmitted to the said clerk for
2 further disposition in accordance herewith.
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SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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