---
type: "Bill"
title: "ANIMALS: Provides relative to animal shelters"
description: "ANIMALS: Provides relative to animal shelters"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 454"
citation: "Louisiana HB 454 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jerome Zeringue"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 33
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-03-29"
last_action: "2019-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c60f8fac-fd8a-41d5-bc3e-17bab409af8a"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236275"
source_hash: "d95735dc70f0c297790f66f34307299b49da35c773cfefe23201b99f2ede19ff"
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 454 (2019) — ANIMALS: Provides relative to animal shelters

## Version chain

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

1. **HB454 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1121727)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #3756, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1142777)
3. **HB454 Act 383** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144618)
4. **HB454 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130405)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1907, AGRI, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129549)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2026, AGRI, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130288)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2609, AGRI, Proposed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1138229)
8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2930, Peacock, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139804)
9. **HB454 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143544)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#353) — **93–1** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1044) — **89–5** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT (#1033) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#978) — **101–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#878) — **35–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jerome Zeringue — primary (person)
- Frankie Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Nancy Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Sam Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Stuart J. Bishop — cosponsor (person)
- Wayne McMahen — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-20** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 383. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-10** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-06** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-06** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-06** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2019-06-06** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 89, nays 5. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2019-06-06** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2019-06-06** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2019-06-06** Conference Committee report received.
- **2019-06-05** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2019-06-05** Senate conference committee members appointed: Peacock, Thompson, and Allain.
- **2019-06-05** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2019-06-05** House conferees appointed: Zeringue, Schexnayder, and Magee.
- **2019-06-04** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
- **2019-06-04** Read by title, roll called, yeas 101, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
- **2019-06-04** Called from the calendar.
- **2019-06-04** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2019-06-03** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/04/19.
- **2019-06-03** 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`
- **2019-05-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-29** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-28** Reported with amendments.
- **2019-05-20** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `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 93, nays 1. 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, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-02** Reported with amendments (11-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `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/c60f8fac-fd8a-41d5-bc3e-17bab409af8a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).