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+type: "Bill"
+title: "CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to the compensation of persons wrongfully convicted (EN +$543,989 SD EX See Note)"
+description: "CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to the compensation of persons wrongfully convicted (EN +$543,989 SD EX See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 492"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 492 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ed Larvadain III"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 26
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2019-03-29"
+last_action: "2019-06-05"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6ad66799-1fbf-4bb5-bf4e-f3f5e1e81d60"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236338"
+source_hash: "43a89cf032d9534666bfb04eb39dcb62ef3d24dd3028e996c0e47120b3520253"
+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 492 (2019) — CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to the compensation of persons wrongfully convicted (EN +$543,989 SD EX See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB492 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1122089)
+2. **HB492 Act 121** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143565)
+3. **HB492 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130015)
+4. **HB492 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1137019)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #1778, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1128756)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #1972, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129931)
+7. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1513, Pierre, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130666)
+8. **HB492 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141500)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#525) — **96–1** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#851) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#488) — **52–31** (fail) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ed Larvadain III — primary (person)
+- Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
+- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
+- Barbara Norton — cosponsor (person)
+- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
+- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
+- Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
+- Edward Ted James — cosponsor (person)
+- Frankie Howard — cosponsor (person)
+- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
+- James Armes — cosponsor (person)
+- Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
+- Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph Marino — cosponsor (person)
+- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
+- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
+- Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
+- Patricia Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
+- Randal L. Gaines — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
+- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
+- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
+- Terry Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Terry Landry — cosponsor (person)
+- Thomas Carmody — cosponsor (person)
+- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-06-05** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
+- **2019-06-05** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 121. `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.
+- **2019-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2019-05-31** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2019-05-27** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-23** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2019-05-22** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2019-05-22** Called from the calendar.
+- **2019-05-22** Rules suspended.
+- **2019-05-22** Read by title, reconsidered, returned to the calendar, under the rules.
+- **2019-05-22** Rules suspended.
+- **2019-05-22** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 52, nays 31. Failed to pass, motion to reconsider pending.
+- **2019-05-16** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/19.
+- **2019-05-14** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2019-05-14** Discharged from the Committee on Appropriations.
+- **2019-05-02** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
+- **2019-05-01** Reported with amendments (13-0-1).
+- **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/6ad66799-1fbf-4bb5-bf4e-f3f5e1e81d60`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+