---
type: "Bill"
title: "ADOPTION: Limits the amount of adoption fees in certain cases"
description: "ADOPTION: Limits the amount of adoption fees in certain cases"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 487"
citation: "Louisiana HB 487 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cameron Henry"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-29"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/11bdfe52-6cbf-45bd-966d-c1a26d9a1b99"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236333"
source_hash: "96371fbe855143103c244f571e223d83e765c56735d7b747e0b0270bbb25a980"
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 487 (2019) — ADOPTION: Limits the amount of adoption fees in certain cases

## Version chain

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

1. **HB487 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1122084)
2. **HB487 Act 320** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144250)
3. **HB487 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130549)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1218, JUD, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1125352)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2040, JUD, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130499)
6. **HB487 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1142187)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#879) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#389) — **94–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Cameron Henry — primary (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Charles R. "Bubba" Chaney — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Dorothy Sue Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- H. Bernard LeBas — cosponsor (person)
- J. Rogers Pope — cosponsor (person)
- Jean-Paul Coussan — cosponsor (person)
- Jerome Zeringue — cosponsor (person)
- Jerry "Truck" Gisclair — cosponsor (person)
- John E. "Johnny" Guinn — cosponsor (person)
- John Stefanski — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
- Mary DuBuisson — cosponsor (person)
- Nancy Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Neil Abramson — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Patricia Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Connick — cosponsor (person)
- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
- Polly Thomas — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Robert E. Billiot — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
- Sam Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Steve Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Taylor F. Barras — cosponsor (person)
- Terry Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas Carmody — cosponsor (person)
- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
- Walt Leger, III — cosponsor (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. 320. `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** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-06-03** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 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** Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
- **2019-05-21** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-20** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-16** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-16** Called from the calendar.
- **2019-05-15** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/16/19.
- **2019-05-15** Notice given.
- **2019-05-15** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **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 (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/11bdfe52-6cbf-45bd-966d-c1a26d9a1b99`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).