---
type: "Bill"
title: "LEGISLATIVE EXPENSES: Makes appropriations for the expenses of the legislature for Fiscal Year 2019-2020"
description: "LEGISLATIVE EXPENSES: Makes appropriations for the expenses of the legislature for Fiscal Year 2019-2020"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 598"
citation: "Louisiana HB 598 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Taylor F. Barras"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-04-17"
last_action: "2019-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/07ac9426-52b6-4d3f-8adc-73dcd995eed3"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236643"
source_hash: "cace65ba104eaca421c5d600a202a646b2cf528523c33fa860924dd772e8dc9f"
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 598 (2019) — LEGISLATIVE EXPENSES: Makes appropriations for the expenses of the legislature for Fiscal Year 2019-2020

## Version chain

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

1. **HB598 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1125417)
2. **HB598 Act 70** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144512)
3. **HB598 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1131296)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #2132, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130889)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2150, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1131024)
6. **HB598 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1140098)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#244) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#640) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Taylor F. Barras — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-19** Effective date: 07/01/2019.
- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 70. `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.
- **2019-05-31** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-05-30** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-29** Read by title; made Special Order of the Day No. 6 for 05/30.
- **2019-05-29** Rules suspended.
- **2019-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-27** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-14** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-13** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-09** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-07** Made Special Order of the day No. 5 for 05/09/19.
- **2019-05-07** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-06** Reported with amendments (21-0).
- **2019-04-22** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-17** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/07ac9426-52b6-4d3f-8adc-73dcd995eed3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).