--- type: "Bill" title: "CRIMINAL/VICTIMS: Provides relative to criteria for making awards to crime victims" description: "CRIMINAL/VICTIMS: Provides relative to criteria for making awards to crime victims" jurisdiction: "us/states/la" legislature: "Louisiana Legislature" session: "2019" identifier: "HB 85" citation: "Louisiana HB 85 (2019)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: [] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Robert E. Billiot"] version_count: 8 action_count: 35 vote_count: 5 first_action: "2019-03-19" last_action: "2019-06-20" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/589946c3-6c05-4e5d-9c35-84d046fc0e46" source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235725" source_hash: "551ccf8ade2ee70957c3e7c60e3eb8ac8ac1c9fabfdd073c94042bcb4de8e971" 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 85 (2019) — CRIMINAL/VICTIMS: Provides relative to criteria for making awards to crime victims ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **HB85 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1116146) 2. **Conference Committee Report, #3207, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141921) 3. **HB85 Act 418** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144891) 4. **HB85 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127200) 5. **House Committee Amendment, #1290, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1125823) 6. **House Committee Amendment, #1520, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127085) 7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1945, Claitor, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1134219) 8. **HB85 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1142760) ## Votes - MOTION TO ADOPT (#967) — **97–0** (pass) · lower - FINAL PASSAGE (#102) — **100–0** (pass) · lower - REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#643) — **97–1** (pass) · lower - FINAL PASSAGE (#429) — **35–0** (pass) · upper - ADOPT (#961) — **36–0** (pass) · upper ## Sponsors - Robert E. Billiot — primary (person) - Joseph Marino — cosponsor (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2019-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 418. `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** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report. - **2019-06-04** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays. - **2019-06-04** Rules suspended. - **2019-06-04** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report. - **2019-06-04** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 97, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted. - **2019-06-03** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/04/19. - **2019-06-03** Conference committee report received. - **2019-06-03** Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules. - **2019-06-03** Notice of Senate conferees appointed. - **2019-06-03** Senate conference committee members appointed: Claitor, Boudreaux, and Carter. - **2019-05-31** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed. - **2019-05-31** House conferees appointed: Billiot, Mack, and Marino. - **2019-05-29** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments. - **2019-05-29** Read by title, roll called, yeas 97, nays 1, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending. - **2019-05-23** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/19. - **2019-05-21** Received from the Senate with amendments. - **2019-05-21** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage` - **2019-05-20** Senate floor amendments read and adopted; read by title and returned to its regular order on third reading and final passage. - **2019-05-16** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. - **2019-05-15** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. - **2019-05-14** Reported favorably. - **2019-05-01** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee` - **2019-04-30** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. - **2019-04-30** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage` - **2019-04-25** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/30/19. - **2019-04-25** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. - **2019-04-24** Reported with amendments (13-0-1). - **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee` - **2019-03-22** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/22/2019. - **2019-03-19** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee` - **2019-03-19** Prefiled. `filing` ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/589946c3-6c05-4e5d-9c35-84d046fc0e46`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).