---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to the payment of fines, fees, costs, restitution, and other monetary obligations related to an offender's conviction"
description: "CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to the payment of fines, fees, costs, restitution, and other monetary obligations related to an offender's conviction"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 611"
citation: "Louisiana HB 611 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tanner Magee"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 18
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-04-25"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/add50f18-5d2a-4aba-888a-66ee07bc9b56"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236745"
source_hash: "9d9b6ddfa9b0ed1cc33bab6da61d706bdfbb5937fcbf0a312e2842c9dbc1ddfe"
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 611 (2019) — CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to the payment of fines, fees, costs, restitution, and other monetary obligations related to an offender's conviction

## Version chain

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

1. **HB611 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127265)
2. **HB611 Act 253** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144119)
3. **HB611 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127297)
4. **HB611 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132240)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #2131, Marino, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130885)
6. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1016, Pierre, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127356)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1880, JUDC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1133783)
8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2073, Claitor, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1135191)
9. **HB611 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139490)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#413) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#641) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#202) — **75–22** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Tanner Magee — primary (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Troy Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Yvonne Colomb — 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. 253. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-31** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-29** Read by title, roll called, yeas 99, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2019-05-23** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/19.
- **2019-05-20** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2019-05-20** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-16** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-15** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-14** Reported with amendments.
- **2019-05-09** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-08** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-07** 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 05/07/19.
- **2019-04-29** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-04-25** Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 255 reported by the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice (9-7).

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/add50f18-5d2a-4aba-888a-66ee07bc9b56`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).