---
type: "Bill"
title: "COURTS/MAGISTRATES: Provides for a magistrate judge in the 14th JDC (EN +$165,000 GF EX See Note)"
description: "COURTS/MAGISTRATES: Provides for a magistrate judge in the 14th JDC (EN +$165,000 GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 295"
citation: "Louisiana HB 295 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dorothy Sue Hill"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 25
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-03-28"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3e99b6c6-4f1e-4a89-ae21-96747ecc959f"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236057"
source_hash: "f514a704e328f79223748f7a734f6464648f13a260090c4bbcc862defc9f08e9"
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 295 (2019) — COURTS/MAGISTRATES: Provides for a magistrate judge in the 14th JDC (EN +$165,000 GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB295 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1120369)
2. **HB295 Act 211** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144073)
3. **HB295 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130550)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1019, JUD, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1123759)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2057, JUD, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130481)
6. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3335, Johns, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141878)
7. **HB295 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143051)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#558) — **87–1** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#902) — **35–1** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#996) — **89–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dorothy Sue Hill — primary (person)
- Stephen Dwight — cosponsor (person)
- Stuart Moss — cosponsor (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. 211. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-05** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-05** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-05** Read by title, roll called, yeas 89, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2019-06-04** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/05/19.
- **2019-06-04** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2019-06-03** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-06-02** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-06-01** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-06-01** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
- **2019-05-31** Rules suspended. Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2019-05-31** Reported favorably.
- **2019-05-28** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-27** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-23** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 87, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-21** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/23/19.
- **2019-05-21** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-20** Reported favorably (16-0).
- **2019-05-06** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2019-05-02** Reported with amendments (16-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `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/3e99b6c6-4f1e-4a89-ae21-96747ecc959f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).