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+type: "Bill"
+title: "ADOPTION: Limits the amount of adoption fees in certain cases"
+description: "ADOPTION: Limits the amount of adoption fees in certain cases"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 487"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 487 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Cameron Henry"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-03-29"
+last_action: "2019-06-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/11bdfe52-6cbf-45bd-966d-c1a26d9a1b99"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236333"
+source_hash: "96371fbe855143103c244f571e223d83e765c56735d7b747e0b0270bbb25a980"
+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 487 (2019) — ADOPTION: Limits the amount of adoption fees in certain cases
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB487 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1122084)
+2. **HB487 Act 320** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144250)
+3. **HB487 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130549)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #1218, JUD, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1125352)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #2040, JUD, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130499)
+6. **HB487 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1142187)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#879) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#389) — **94–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Cameron Henry — primary (person)
+- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
+- Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
+- Charles R. "Bubba" Chaney — cosponsor (person)
+- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
+- Dorothy Sue Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- H. Bernard LeBas — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Rogers Pope — cosponsor (person)
+- Jean-Paul Coussan — cosponsor (person)
+- Jerome Zeringue — cosponsor (person)
+- Jerry "Truck" Gisclair — cosponsor (person)
+- John E. "Johnny" Guinn — cosponsor (person)
+- John Stefanski — cosponsor (person)
+- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
+- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
+- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
+- Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
+- Mary DuBuisson — cosponsor (person)
+- Nancy Landry — cosponsor (person)
+- Neil Abramson — cosponsor (person)
+- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
+- Patricia Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick Connick — cosponsor (person)
+- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
+- Polly Thomas — cosponsor (person)
+- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert E. Billiot — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
+- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
+- Sam Jones — cosponsor (person)
+- Steve Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Taylor F. Barras — cosponsor (person)
+- Terry Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Thomas Carmody — cosponsor (person)
+- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
+- Walt Leger, III — cosponsor (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. 320. `executive-signature`
+- **2019-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-06-05** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2019-06-04** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2019-06-03** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2019-06-03** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **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** Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
+- **2019-05-21** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-20** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2019-05-16** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2019-05-16** Called from the calendar.
+- **2019-05-15** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/16/19.
+- **2019-05-15** Notice given.
+- **2019-05-15** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
+- **2019-05-07** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/19.
+- **2019-05-06** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2019-05-02** Reported with amendments (12-0).
+- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `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/11bdfe52-6cbf-45bd-966d-c1a26d9a1b99`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+