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+type: "Bill"
+title: "LEGISLATIVE EXPENSES: Makes appropriations for the expenses of the legislature for Fiscal Year 2019-2020"
+description: "LEGISLATIVE EXPENSES: Makes appropriations for the expenses of the legislature for Fiscal Year 2019-2020"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 598"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 598 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Taylor F. Barras"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-04-17"
+last_action: "2019-06-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/07ac9426-52b6-4d3f-8adc-73dcd995eed3"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236643"
+source_hash: "cace65ba104eaca421c5d600a202a646b2cf528523c33fa860924dd772e8dc9f"
+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 598 (2019) — LEGISLATIVE EXPENSES: Makes appropriations for the expenses of the legislature for Fiscal Year 2019-2020
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB598 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1125417)
+2. **HB598 Act 70** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144512)
+3. **HB598 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1131296)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #2132, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130889)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #2150, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1131024)
+6. **HB598 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1140098)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#244) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#640) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Taylor F. Barras — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-06-19** Effective date: 07/01/2019.
+- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 70. `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.
+- **2019-05-31** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2019-05-30** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2019-05-29** Read by title; made Special Order of the Day No. 6 for 05/30.
+- **2019-05-29** Rules suspended.
+- **2019-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2019-05-27** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2019-05-14** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-13** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2019-05-09** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2019-05-07** Made Special Order of the day No. 5 for 05/09/19.
+- **2019-05-07** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2019-05-06** Reported with amendments (21-0).
+- **2019-04-22** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-17** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/07ac9426-52b6-4d3f-8adc-73dcd995eed3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+