---
type: "Bill"
title: "CAPITAL OUTLAY: Provides for the comprehensive Capital Outlay budget"
description: "CAPITAL OUTLAY: Provides for the comprehensive Capital Outlay budget"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2"
citation: "Louisiana HB 2 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Neil Abramson"]
version_count: 17
action_count: 37
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-04-16"
last_action: "2019-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d5999abf-86d3-4430-879a-fbe639ec1257"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236618"
source_hash: "45fc4e93edf293fa7dc64041a0e63950c1d5edae01835d181529694f6adce2a4"
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 2 (2019) — CAPITAL OUTLAY: Provides for the comprehensive Capital Outlay budget

## Version chain

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

1. **HB2 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1124995)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #3734, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1142458)
3. **HB2 Act 20** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1145780)
4. **HB2 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1133656)
5. **HB2 Re-Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1137311)
6. **HB2 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1134263)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #2537, W&M, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1133259)
8. **House Committee Amendment, #2590, W&M, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1133530)
9. **House Committee Amendment, #2608, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1133603)
10. **House Committee Amendment, #2686, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1134218)
11. **House Floor Amendment, #2890, Abramson, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1135341)
12. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2804, R&F, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139396)
13. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3048, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1140392)
14. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2970, Morrell, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1140044)
15. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3139, Morrell, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1140734)
16. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3195, Morrell, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1140907)
17. **HB2 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143702)

## Votes

- ADOPT (#1041) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1058) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#553) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#917) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#760) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Neil Abramson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-07-01** Effective date: 07/01/2019.
- **2019-06-28** Signed by the Governor with one or more line-item vetoes. Becomes Act No. 20. `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** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2019-06-06** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 100, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2019-06-06** Conference Committee report received.
- **2019-06-06** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2019-06-05** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2019-06-05** Senate conference committee members appointed: Morrell, Alario, and LaFleur.
- **2019-06-04** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2019-06-04** House conferees appointed: Abramson, Stefanski, and Jimmy Harris.
- **2019-06-03** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
- **2019-06-03** Read by title, roll called, yeas 100, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
- **2019-06-03** Called from the calendar.
- **2019-06-03** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2019-06-02** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/03/19.
- **2019-06-02** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2019-06-01** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-31** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-30** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2019-05-30** Senate Committee amendments read and adopted.
- **2019-05-30** Rules suspended.
- **2019-05-30** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments.
- **2019-05-23** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-23** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-16** Made Special Order of the day No. 1 for 05/23/19.
- **2019-05-16** Read by title, amended, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-15** Reported with amendments (17-0).
- **2019-05-13** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2019-05-13** Rules suspended.
- **2019-05-13** Reported with amendments (14-0).
- **2019-04-17** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-16** 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/d5999abf-86d3-4430-879a-fbe639ec1257`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).