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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to jury trials"
+description: "CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to jury trials"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 477"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 477 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Mary DuBuisson"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-03-29"
+last_action: "2019-06-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a7e4ddfc-fec8-4a16-adf5-b8110c0783c5"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236304"
+source_hash: "b9a554f27170d6bc9b0c9f7ba2730ac8d1db7480214c5592ccad445ec31da697"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
+---
+
+# Louisiana HB 477 (2019) — CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to jury trials
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB477 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1121894)
+2. **HB477 Act 235** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144098)
+3. **HB477 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1131883)
+4. **HB477 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141236)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#479) — **89–1** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#813) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Mary DuBuisson — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
+- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 235. `executive-signature`
+- **2019-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2019-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2019-06-02** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2019-06-02** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2019-06-02** Rules suspended.
+- **2019-05-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2019-05-29** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2019-05-28** Reported favorably.
+- **2019-05-23** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-22** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2019-05-21** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2019-05-21** Called from the calendar.
+- **2019-05-21** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
+- **2019-05-09** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/19.
+- **2019-05-08** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2019-05-07** Reported favorably (10-0).
+- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a7e4ddfc-fec8-4a16-adf5-b8110c0783c5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+