---
type: "Bill"
title: "BONDS: Provides relative to criminal bail bonds. (8/1/19)"
description: "BONDS: Provides relative to criminal bail bonds. (8/1/19)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 108"
citation: "Louisiana SB 108 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gary L. Smith, Jr."]
version_count: 8
action_count: 25
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-03-27"
last_action: "2019-06-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e9056994-9e46-4f32-83d6-20838f9425e6"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236000"
source_hash: "97d625629d1a05c966d9c8f88063f89a3f6473ed19fe01fe309178214e0136a5"
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 SB 108 (2019) — BONDS: Provides relative to criminal bail bonds. (8/1/19)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB108 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1119688)
2. **House Floor Amendment, #2337, Seabaugh, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132093)
3. **House Floor Amendment, #3230, Jackson, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1137205)
4. **SB108 Act 54** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141926)
5. **SB108 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1125000)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #667, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1124860)
7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #909, Claitor, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1126568)
8. **SB108 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1138497)

## Votes

- CONCUR (#525) — **36–1** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#597) — **85–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#104) — **38–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — primary (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Chris Leopold — cosponsor (person)
- Danny Martiny — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
- J.P. Morrell — cosponsor (person)
- John Stefanski — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Randal L. Gaines — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Troy Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Wesley Bishop — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-01** Effective date: See Act.
- **2019-06-01** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 54. `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-30** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-29** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-29** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-28** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 36 yeas and 1 nays.
- **2019-05-28** Called from the Calendar.
- **2019-05-28** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2019-05-27** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2019-05-23** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 85, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-23** Called from the calendar.
- **2019-05-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/23/19.
- **2019-05-22** Notice given.
- **2019-05-22** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2019-05-09** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/19.
- **2019-05-09** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-08** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2019-05-07** Reported favorably (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-04-24** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-23** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2019-04-23** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 1 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-04-17** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-04-16** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments.
- **2019-04-08** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e9056994-9e46-4f32-83d6-20838f9425e6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).