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+type: "Bill"
+title: "COURTS: Provides relative to a special taxing district in Avoyelles Parish to fund construction and operation of courtroom and related facilities"
+description: "COURTS: Provides relative to a special taxing district in Avoyelles Parish to fund construction and operation of courtroom and related facilities"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 55"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 55 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Robert Johnson"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2019-03-11"
+last_action: "2019-06-06"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f280ebe8-8b61-4dff-ac3f-d35d7c7692dc"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235688"
+source_hash: "1c851d8bcf00193003d794a5cb98c20dfe8f5ec6b9688f497bb890495394a327"
+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 55 (2019) — COURTS: Provides relative to a special taxing district in Avoyelles Parish to fund construction and operation of courtroom and related facilities
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB55 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1114650)
+2. **HB55 Act 138** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143671)
+3. **HB55 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130556)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #1002, JUD, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1123474)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #2049, JUD, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130529)
+6. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #3110, LaFleur, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1140589)
+7. **HB55 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1142130)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#778) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#870) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#332) — **92–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Robert Johnson — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-06-06** Effective date: 06/06/2019.
+- **2019-06-06** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 138. `executive-signature`
+- **2019-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2019-06-04** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2019-06-03** Read by title, roll called, yeas 99, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
+- **2019-06-02** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/03/19.
+- **2019-06-02** Received from the Senate with amendments.
+- **2019-06-02** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2019-05-30** 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.
+- **2019-05-20** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-16** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2019-05-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **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 (10-0).
+- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-15** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/15/2019.
+- **2019-03-11** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-11** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f280ebe8-8b61-4dff-ac3f-d35d7c7692dc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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