HB 681 Louisiana House · 2025 Regular Session

PUBLIC RECORDS: Provides relative to access to personal information of district attorneys (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)

HB 681 amends a public records law to expand who qualifies as a "public official" whose personal information (like contact details) is subject to public record requests. It adds three new categories: current state legislators, statewide elected officials, and current public service commission members. This change directly affects those three groups by making their personal information accessible under existing public records procedures. The bill updates the statute without creating new policies or altering other record access rules. (Summary based solely on the bill's text and amendments.)

Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Apr 2025

Committee Review

May 2025

House Passage

Jun 2025

Senate Passage

Jun 2025

Signed into Law

Jun 2025

Introduced Apr 30, 2025 Signed Jun 11, 2025

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What changed between versions

HB681 Original → HB681 Act 303 · 4 edits

MODERATE

This bill expands legal protections for personal information beyond just judges and court officials to include current and retired district attorneys, assistant district attorneys, and district attorney investigators. It also updates the list of protected individuals to include current legislators, statewide elected officials, and public service commission members. The change matters because these new groups will now have the same legal rights to request that their private contact details be removed from public records as judges currently do.

Scope change

The bill significantly broadens the scope of protected individuals from primarily the judiciary to include the district attorney's office and various current elected officials.

ELIGIBILITY

Added current and retired district attorneys, assistant district attorneys, and district attorney investigators to the list of protected individuals eligible for personal information privacy.

Added current members of the legislature, current statewide elected officials, and current members of the public service commission to the list of protected individuals.

Updated the statutory language to explicitly include the new categories of protected individuals in the relevant sections of the law.

TECHNICAL

Added new subsections (7), (8), and (9) to the list of protected individuals and repealed an unrelated section regarding protected individuals.

Floor votes · Senate Jun 3, 2025 · House May 8, 2025

How they voted

34–0

Passed · 3 other

Total votes 37

Jun 3, 2025

D Democratic11

10 Yea 1

90% Yea

R Republican26

24 Yea 2

92% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

Full legislative history

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Key actions

Committee

Jun 4, 2025

Lower · Passed

Read by title, roll called, yeas 89, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.

lower

Jun 3, 2025

Upper · Passed

Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

upper

May 29, 2025

Committee

Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

upper

May 28, 2025

Upper · Passed

Reported favorably.

upper

May 8, 2025

Lower · Passed

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

lower

Apr 30, 2025

Lower · Passed

Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 324 reported by the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs (10-0).

lower

1 primary · 26 co-sponsors