---
type: "Bill"
title: "BANKS/BANKING: Provides relative to the forms of security banks may use to secure funds deposited by local governments"
description: "BANKS/BANKING: Provides relative to the forms of security banks may use to secure funds deposited by local governments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 159"
citation: "Louisiana HB 159 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John A. Johnny Berthelot"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-26"
last_action: "2019-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bb90fd5a-6cc4-4bc7-a4ac-fed787256f5d"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235862"
source_hash: "05c6d9e26265847484ade52d89ce37a319cdb8b8827ceb2e64dd84bc66a8b836"
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 159 (2019) — BANKS/BANKING: Provides relative to the forms of security banks may use to secure funds deposited by local governments

## Version chain

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

1. **HB159 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1118625)
2. **HB159 Act 99** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143277)
3. **HB159 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127668)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1279, MPC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1125786)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1596, MPC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127637)
6. **HB159 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1138374)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#168) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#487) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- John A. Johnny Berthelot — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-04** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 99. `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-29** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-28** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-05-27** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-22** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-21** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-20** Reported favorably.
- **2019-05-07** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `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 99, 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, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-04-25** Reported with amendments (17-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-26** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-26** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bb90fd5a-6cc4-4bc7-a4ac-fed787256f5d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).