---
type: "Bill"
title: "COURTS/CITY: Provides relative to the jurisdictional limits of the City Court of Lake Charles"
description: "COURTS/CITY: Provides relative to the jurisdictional limits of the City Court of Lake Charles"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 35"
citation: "Louisiana HB 35 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A.B. Franklin"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-27"
last_action: "2019-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d691c1ca-79bc-4938-89e6-1c010dc4bac4"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235664"
source_hash: "522ac74decfcbe967fce4294d0d7d04f70f67156a85f98fadbd3f0f50c302398"
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 35 (2019) — COURTS/CITY: Provides relative to the jurisdictional limits of the City Court of Lake Charles

## Version chain

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

1. **HB35 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1113726)
2. **HB35 Act 135** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143668)
3. **HB35 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130427)
4. **HB35 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141450)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#328) — **87–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#775) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- A.B. Franklin — primary (person)
- Ronnie Johns — cosponsor (person)
- Stephen Dwight — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-06** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-06-06** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 135. `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** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-29** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-28** Reported favorably.
- **2019-05-20** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-16** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 87, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-07** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/19.
- **2019-05-06** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-02** Reported favorably (16-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-01** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/1/2019.
- **2019-02-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-27** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d691c1ca-79bc-4938-89e6-1c010dc4bac4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).