---
type: "Bill"
title: "CIVIL/LAW: Requires the return of certain abandoned funds to the town of Berwick"
description: "CIVIL/LAW: Requires the return of certain abandoned funds to the town of Berwick"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 124"
citation: "Louisiana HB 124 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sam Jones"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-22"
last_action: "2019-05-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/27baeabb-2feb-40c1-9803-f6724e4f0b70"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235793"
source_hash: "1270322404d007e36bd832b227d76920fd74c23f275fabb42756067550b4ca31"
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 124 (2019) — CIVIL/LAW: Requires the return of certain abandoned funds to the town of Berwick

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB124 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1117151)
2. **HB124 Act 8** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139028)
3. **HB124 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127597)
4. **HB124 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1135998)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#406) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#163) — **102–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Sam Jones — primary (person)
- R. L. Bret Allain, II — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-05-24** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-05-24** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 8. `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-23** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-22** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-21** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-20** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-05-20** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-16** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-15** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-14** Reported favorably.
- **2019-05-07** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-06** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-06** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/06/19.
- **2019-04-29** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-04-25** Reported favorably (11-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-22** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/22/2019.
- **2019-03-22** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-22** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/27baeabb-2feb-40c1-9803-f6724e4f0b70`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).