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+type: "Bill"
+title: "EVIDENCE: Provides relative to hearsay"
+description: "EVIDENCE: Provides relative to hearsay"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 489"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 489 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Mary DuBuisson"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 30
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2019-03-29"
+last_action: "2019-06-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/16d577d7-d84f-45b2-a608-c337ea20f818"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236335"
+source_hash: "2e8e1d83b3c06b1781806459b73ed11fcecaabb2956177fb3a21316dd868e355"
+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 489 (2019) — EVIDENCE: Provides relative to hearsay
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB489 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1122081)
+2. **HB489 Act 237** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144100)
+3. **HB489 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1124417)
+4. **HB489 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1137433)
+5. **House Floor Amendment, #3263, Mack, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1137410)
+6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2997, JUDB, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1140306)
+7. **HB489 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1142722)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#897) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#963) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#576) — **86–4** (pass) · lower
+
+## 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. 237. `executive-signature`
+- **2019-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-06-05** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2019-06-05** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2019-06-04** Read by title, roll called, yeas 100, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
+- **2019-06-03** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/04/19.
+- **2019-06-03** Received from the Senate with amendments.
+- **2019-06-03** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2019-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2019-05-31** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2019-05-28** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-27** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2019-05-23** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 86, nays 4. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2019-05-23** Called from the calendar.
+- **2019-05-21** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/23/19.
+- **2019-05-21** Notice given.
+- **2019-05-21** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
+- **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, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2019-05-07** Reported favorably (7-3).
+- **2019-04-23** Read by title, recommitted to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.
+- **2019-04-17** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/23/19.
+- **2019-04-16** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2019-04-15** Reported favorably (7-0).
+- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `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/16d577d7-d84f-45b2-a608-c337ea20f818`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+