---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIMINAL/PENALTIES: Provides relative to the crime of improper supervision of a minor by a parent or legal custodian (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)"
description: "CRIMINAL/PENALTIES: Provides relative to the crime of improper supervision of a minor by a parent or legal custodian (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 47"
citation: "Louisiana HB 47 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Samuel Jenkins"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-03-07"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4567f1b2-8207-485a-84d1-3d6d583f9917"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235677"
source_hash: "9021995bc79dfcedd75aa1342b0d5e321bce7d9fa00c444a36ec9eaf005ef2f1"
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 47 (2019) — CRIMINAL/PENALTIES: Provides relative to the crime of improper supervision of a minor by a parent or legal custodian (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB47 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1114391)
2. **HB47 Act 290** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144213)
3. **HB47 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129873)
4. **HB47 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1133625)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #2548, Jenkins, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1133306)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #2609, Bacala, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1133586)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2203, JUDC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1136138)
8. **HB47 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1142146)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#725) — **23–9** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#260) — **75–22** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#869) — **91–10** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Samuel Jenkins — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 290. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-05** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-04** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-03** Read by title, roll called, yeas 91, nays 10, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2019-06-02** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/03/19.
- **2019-06-02** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2019-06-01** The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 23 yeas and 9 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-23** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-22** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-21** Reported with amendments.
- **2019-05-15** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-14** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-13** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 75, nays 22. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/13/19.
- **2019-05-02** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-01** Reported favorably (10-0-1).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-08** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/8/2019.
- **2019-03-07** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-07** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4567f1b2-8207-485a-84d1-3d6d583f9917`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).