---
type: "Bill"
title: "DISTRICTS/CRIME PREVENT: Creates a crime prevention district in the Monticello neighborhood in East Baton Rouge Parish"
description: "DISTRICTS/CRIME PREVENT: Creates a crime prevention district in the Monticello neighborhood in East Baton Rouge Parish"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 323"
citation: "Louisiana HB 323 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edward Ted James"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-28"
last_action: "2019-06-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/577da54e-0207-4256-b66d-c492c339f035"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236099"
source_hash: "c0e5ea2968ca5945cf03e7c4195a81fca40c179d9dccf8e3fc071e7794ab4115"
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 323 (2019) — DISTRICTS/CRIME PREVENT: Creates a crime prevention district in the Monticello neighborhood in East Baton Rouge Parish

## Version chain

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

1. **HB323 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1120558)
2. **HB323 Act 357** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144278)
3. **HB323 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132485)
4. **HB323 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1136430)
5. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1759, Pierre, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132908)
6. **HB323 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141423)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#461) — **83–4** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#830) — **36–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Edward Ted James — primary (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-17** Effective date: 06/11/2019.
- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 357. `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 36 yeas and 2 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.
- **2019-05-23** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-22** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-21** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 83, nays 4. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-09** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/19.
- **2019-05-09** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-08** Reported favorably (12-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `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/577da54e-0207-4256-b66d-c492c339f035`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).