HLS 24RS-1736 ORIGINAL
2024 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 789
BY REPRESENTATIVE BOURRIAQUE
COURTS/COURT REPORTERS: Provides relative to court reporter fees in the Fourteenth
Judicial District
1 AN ACT
2To amend and reenact R.S. 13:964(H), relative to court reporters for the Fourteenth Judicial
3 District Court; to extend application of fees to all reported and transcribed cases; and
4 to provide for related matters.
5Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
6 Section 1. R.S. 13:964(H) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
7 ยง964. Court reporters for Fourteenth Judicial District
8 * * *
9 H. In all cases which are reported and transcribed for appeal, a fee of three
10 dollars and twenty-five cents per page for originals, and seventy-five cents per page
11 for each copy, shall be charged by and paid to the reporter. In those cases which are
12 reported but not transcribed, one-half of the fees provided in this Subsection for
13 originals shall be charged by and paid to the reporter. Such fees shall be retained by
14 the reporter as compensation, in addition to the salary provided for in Subsection G
15 of this Section, and shall be taxed as costs of the suit in which the testimony is taken.
16 * * *
Page 1 of 2
CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored
are additions. HLS 24RS-1736 ORIGINAL
HB NO. 789
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 789 Original 2024 Regular Session Bourriaque
Abstract: Provides relative to court reporters for the 14th JDC.
Present law provides that for all cases that are reported and transcribed for an appeal a fee
of $3.25 per page for originals and $0.75 per page for each copy shall be charged by and
paid to the court reporter.
Proposed law changes present law by extending the application of fees to all cases that are
reported and transcribed.
(Amends R.S. 13:964(H))
Page 2 of 2
CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored
are additions.