---
type: "Bill"
title: "BANKS/BANKING: Provides for fingerprinting for criminal history background checks for employment in a financial institution"
description: "BANKS/BANKING: Provides for fingerprinting for criminal history background checks for employment in a financial institution"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 303"
citation: "Louisiana HB 303 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jean-Paul Coussan"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-28"
last_action: "2019-05-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bbeb37d7-7bcb-4b34-869d-95a73c40435d"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236079"
source_hash: "c3e23257e3e9fc586495f36312ec60ee35a18da81d4404a0d8ae6322f6d86b61"
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 303 (2019) — BANKS/BANKING: Provides for fingerprinting for criminal history background checks for employment in a financial institution

## Version chain

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

1. **HB303 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1120498)
2. **HB303 Act 13** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139034)
3. **HB303 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1126396)
4. **HB303 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1134250)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#75) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#340) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jean-Paul Coussan — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-29** Effective date: 05/24/2019.
- **2019-05-24** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 13. `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-16** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-16** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-15** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-14** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-05-14** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-13** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-09** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-08** Reported favorably.
- **2019-04-30** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-29** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-04-29** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-04-25** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/29/19.
- **2019-04-24** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-04-23** Reported favorably (12-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. `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/bbeb37d7-7bcb-4b34-869d-95a73c40435d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).