---
type: "Bill"
title: "EVIDENCE: Provides relative to hearsay"
description: "EVIDENCE: Provides relative to hearsay"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 489"
citation: "Louisiana HB 489 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mary DuBuisson"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 30
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-03-29"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/16d577d7-d84f-45b2-a608-c337ea20f818"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236335"
source_hash: "2e8e1d83b3c06b1781806459b73ed11fcecaabb2956177fb3a21316dd868e355"
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 489 (2019) — EVIDENCE: Provides relative to hearsay

## Version chain

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

1. **HB489 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1122081)
2. **HB489 Act 237** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144100)
3. **HB489 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1124417)
4. **HB489 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1137433)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #3263, Mack, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1137410)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2997, JUDB, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1140306)
7. **HB489 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1142722)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#897) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#963) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#576) — **86–4** (pass) · lower

## 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. 237. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-05** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-05** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-04** Read by title, roll called, yeas 100, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2019-06-03** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/04/19.
- **2019-06-03** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2019-06-03** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-31** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **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, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 86, nays 4. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-23** Called from the calendar.
- **2019-05-21** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/23/19.
- **2019-05-21** Notice given.
- **2019-05-21** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **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, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-07** Reported favorably (7-3).
- **2019-04-23** Read by title, recommitted to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.
- **2019-04-17** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/23/19.
- **2019-04-16** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-04-15** Reported favorably (7-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `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/16d577d7-d84f-45b2-a608-c337ea20f818`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).