---
type: "Bill"
title: "WORKERS COMPENSATION: Provides for worker's compensation for volunteer reserve police officers"
description: "WORKERS COMPENSATION: Provides for worker's compensation for volunteer reserve police officers"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 285"
citation: "Louisiana HB 285 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Robert E. Billiot"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-28"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2a2f0e87-5746-47e4-9f59-af3de9557a1d"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236047"
source_hash: "0b73cb912a5f3c15e99de2596fd6fae50e14577c1ffb59b972d038c6eb6f3ded"
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 285 (2019) — WORKERS COMPENSATION: Provides for worker's compensation for volunteer reserve police officers

## Version chain

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

1. **HB285 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1120253)
2. **HB285 Act 306** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144236)
3. **HB285 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127549)
4. **HB285 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132149)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1559, L&IR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127439)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1565, L&IR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127528)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #1609, Billiot, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127922)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #2331, Billiot, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132029)
9. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1123, Pierre, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1128072)
10. **HB285 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141422)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#184) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#829) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Robert E. Billiot — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 306. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-02** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-06-02** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-06-02** Rules suspended.
- **2019-05-31** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-30** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-09** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-08** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-07** Read third time by title, amended, 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 05/07/19.
- **2019-04-29** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-04-25** Reported with amendments (12-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2a2f0e87-5746-47e4-9f59-af3de9557a1d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).