---
type: "Bill"
title: "LOCAL EMPLOYEES: Provides with respect to employment applications with political subdivisions"
description: "LOCAL EMPLOYEES: Provides with respect to employment applications with political subdivisions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 189"
citation: "Louisiana HB 189 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jim Morris"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 35
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-03-26"
last_action: "2019-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/51beac64-d672-451e-94c7-72b4c3fcaeaa"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235892"
source_hash: "9f5961a2563f56f7fd8b7f3bd72591eebd8527fd35ebf82ca0507b37284fe321"
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 189 (2019) — LOCAL EMPLOYEES: Provides with respect to employment applications with political subdivisions

## Version chain

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

1. **HB189 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1118674)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #3783, House Proposed, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143137)
3. **HB189 Act 392** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144656)
4. **HB189 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127592)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2032, L&M, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1134917)
6. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2806, Donahue, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139319)
7. **HB189 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143443)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#171) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#916) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1031) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#627) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- ADOPT (#1011) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jim Morris — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-20** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 392. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-10** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-06** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-06** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-06** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2019-06-06** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 95, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2019-06-06** Rules suspended.
- **2019-06-06** Conference Committee report received.
- **2019-06-06** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2019-06-05** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2019-06-04** Senate conference committee members appointed: Colomb, Donahue, and Peterson.
- **2019-06-04** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2019-06-04** House conferees appointed: Jim Morris, Berthelot, and Abramson.
- **2019-06-03** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
- **2019-06-03** Read by title, roll called, yeas 97, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
- **2019-06-03** Called from the calendar.
- **2019-06-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/03/19.
- **2019-06-02** Notice given.
- **2019-06-02** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2019-05-31** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/02/19.
- **2019-05-30** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2019-05-30** 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`
- **2019-05-22** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-21** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-20** Reported with amendments.
- **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 97, 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 (14-0).
- **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/51beac64-d672-451e-94c7-72b4c3fcaeaa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).