---
type: "Bill"
title: "DISTRICT ATTORNEYS: Increases the salary of the district attorney (EN +$1,637,111 GF EX See Note)"
description: "DISTRICT ATTORNEYS: Increases the salary of the district attorney (EN +$1,637,111 GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 387"
citation: "Louisiana HB 387 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patrick O. Jefferson"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 24
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-03-29"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b9708d16-8171-462f-abac-247e037e80dc"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236203"
source_hash: "bbd09762dae803b57eb88a8f27a6034b6989af749d66f44319b227d366f35c5a"
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 387 (2019) — DISTRICT ATTORNEYS: Increases the salary of the district attorney (EN +$1,637,111 GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB387 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1121453)
2. **HB387 Act 315** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144245)
3. **HB387 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132615)
4. **HB387 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1135823)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2255, JUD, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1131521)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2403, JUD, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132505)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #2906, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1135420)
8. **House Committee Amendment, #3014, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1135871)
9. **HB387 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141510)

## Votes

- CO-AUTHORS (#849) — **22–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#848) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#559) — **93–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Patrick O. Jefferson — primary (person)
- Barbara Norton — cosponsor (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
- Charles R. "Bubba" Chaney — cosponsor (person)
- Conrad Appel — cosponsor (person)
- Dale Erdey — cosponsor (person)
- Danny Martiny — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
- Eddie Lambert — cosponsor (person)
- Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Frank Hoffmann — cosponsor (person)
- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald Long — cosponsor (person)
- J.P. Morrell — cosponsor (person)
- Jack Donahue — cosponsor (person)
- Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
- Jean-Paul Coussan — cosponsor (person)
- Jerome Zeringue — cosponsor (person)
- John Alario — cosponsor (person)
- John Bagneris — cosponsor (person)
- John R. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Marino — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
- Mack Bodi White, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
- Mary DuBuisson — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Walsworth — cosponsor (person)
- Nicholas Muscarello — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Polly Thomas — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Ward, III — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Ronnie Johns — cosponsor (person)
- Ryan Gatti — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)
- Stephen Dwight — cosponsor (person)
- Steven E. Pylant — cosponsor (person)
- Taylor F. Barras — cosponsor (person)
- Terry Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
- Yvonne Colomb — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-11** Effective date: 07/01/2019.
- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 315. `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.
- **2019-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-31** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-31** 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 93, nays 0. 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, amended, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-20** Reported with amendments (19-0).
- **2019-05-09** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2019-05-08** Reported with amendments (12-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b9708d16-8171-462f-abac-247e037e80dc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).