---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to jury trials"
description: "CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to jury trials"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 477"
citation: "Louisiana HB 477 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mary DuBuisson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-29"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a7e4ddfc-fec8-4a16-adf5-b8110c0783c5"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236304"
source_hash: "b9a554f27170d6bc9b0c9f7ba2730ac8d1db7480214c5592ccad445ec31da697"
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 477 (2019) — CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to jury trials

## Version chain

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

1. **HB477 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1121894)
2. **HB477 Act 235** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144098)
3. **HB477 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1131883)
4. **HB477 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141236)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#479) — **89–1** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#813) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mary DuBuisson — 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. 235. `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.
- **2019-05-30** 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.
- **2019-05-23** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `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, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-21** Called from the calendar.
- **2019-05-21** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2019-05-09** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/19.
- **2019-05-08** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-07** Reported favorably (10-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `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/a7e4ddfc-fec8-4a16-adf5-b8110c0783c5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).