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+type: "Bill"
+title: "COURTS: Provides relative to justice of the peace courts and constables in St. Tammany Parish. (gov sig)"
+description: "COURTS: Provides relative to justice of the peace courts and constables in St. Tammany Parish. (gov sig)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 70"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 70 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jack Donahue"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-03-26"
+last_action: "2019-05-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2971c2c8-7813-4908-82d4-2acbaa9dde56"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235920"
+source_hash: "4c853e1e2c53389b42a20bc2e627892759161307eec8c75707f92c5514b436fe"
+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 SB 70 (2019) — COURTS: Provides relative to justice of the peace courts and constables in St. Tammany Parish. (gov sig)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB70 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1118889)
+2. **SB70 Act 28** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1140117)
+3. **SB70 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1126352)
+4. **SB70 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127489)
+5. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #932, Martiny, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1126816)
+6. **SB70 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1137775)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#140) — **30–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#580) — **87–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jack Donahue — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-05-30** Effective date 5/30/2019.
+- **2019-05-30** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 28. `executive-signature`
+- **2019-05-30** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-05-28** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2019-05-28** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2019-05-27** Received from the House without amendments.
+- **2019-05-23** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 87, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2019-05-16** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/23/19.
+- **2019-05-13** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2019-05-09** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2019-05-08** Reported favorably (13-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2019-04-30** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-29** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2019-04-25** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 30 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2019-04-24** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2019-04-23** Reported favorably.
+- **2019-04-08** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-26** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `filing, referral-committee`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2971c2c8-7813-4908-82d4-2acbaa9dde56`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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