---
type: "Bill"
title: "PRIVILEGES/LIENS: Provides relative to privileges on immovables"
description: "PRIVILEGES/LIENS: Provides relative to privileges on immovables"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 203"
citation: "Louisiana HB 203 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gregory A. Miller"]
version_count: 14
action_count: 23
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-03-26"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/26d0108d-7b00-49b7-99de-22fbe371f0a9"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235906"
source_hash: "0a45a05f3c0f8b25e13036b5bd9aa2afb9fcfb90d262144cd9082f6de48f3d2d"
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 203 (2019) — PRIVILEGES/LIENS: Provides relative to privileges on immovables

## Version chain

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

1. **HB203 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1118818)
2. **HB203 Act 325** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144254)
3. **HB203 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129260)
4. **HB203 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132857)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1682, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1128224)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1691, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1128228)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #1837, CL&P, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129139)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #2314, Miller, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1131960)
9. **House Floor Amendment, #2372, Miller, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132259)
10. **House Floor Amendment, #2449, Abramson, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132800)
11. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1406, Pierre, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129723)
12. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2230, JUDA, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1136152)
13. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2325, Ward, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1136776)
14. **HB203 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1142133)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#740) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#882) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 2449 BY ABRAMSON, MOTION TO ADOPT (#236) — **49–37** (fail) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#237) — **91–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gregory A. Miller — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-11** Effective date: See Act.
- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 325. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-05** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-04** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-03** Read by title, roll called, yeas 100, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2019-06-02** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/03/19.
- **2019-06-02** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2019-06-01** 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`
- **2019-05-23** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-22** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-21** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments.
- **2019-05-13** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-09** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-08** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-08** Called from the calendar.
- **2019-05-08** Read by title, amended, returned to the calendar.
- **2019-05-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/08/19.
- **2019-05-01** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-04-30** Reported with amendments (8-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-26** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `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/26d0108d-7b00-49b7-99de-22fbe371f0a9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).