---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIME/PUNISHMENT: Provides relative to human trafficking. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
description: "CRIME/PUNISHMENT: Provides relative to human trafficking. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 145"
citation: "Louisiana SB 145 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ronnie Johns"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-03-27"
last_action: "2019-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/452400db-8fbf-451b-a5b3-7f3233afd226"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236136"
source_hash: "e45d2d7e681e52b087f9758feecb57428ec7956cf03381ef01a4fb7f38a20d61"
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 145 (2019) — CRIME/PUNISHMENT: Provides relative to human trafficking. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB145 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1120852)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #2619, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1133657)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #2638, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1133848)
4. **SB145 Act 409** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144796)
5. **SB145 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127184)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #826, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127068)
7. **SB145 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1138500)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#594) — **87–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#157) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR (#523) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- CO-AUTHORS (#158) — **24–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ronnie Johns — primary (person)
- Barrow Peacock — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
- Charles R. "Bubba" Chaney — cosponsor (person)
- Dale Erdey — cosponsor (person)
- Danny Martiny — cosponsor (person)
- Dustin Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Frank Hoffmann — cosponsor (person)
- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald Long — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory Tarver — cosponsor (person)
- H. Bernard LeBas — cosponsor (person)
- J. Rogers Pope — cosponsor (person)
- James R. Fannin — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- John Alario — cosponsor (person)
- John Milkovich — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Stokes — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Walsworth — cosponsor (person)
- Neil Riser — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Ward, III — cosponsor (person)
- Ryan Gatti — cosponsor (person)
- Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)
- Troy Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Wayne McMahen — cosponsor (person)
- Wesley Bishop — cosponsor (person)
- Yvonne Colomb — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-20** Effective date 6/20/2019.
- **2019-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 409. `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 37 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2019-05-27** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2019-05-23** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 87, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/23/19.
- **2019-05-16** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-15** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2019-05-14** Reported with amendments (8-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-04-30** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-29** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2019-04-29** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-04-25** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-04-24** 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 Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/452400db-8fbf-451b-a5b3-7f3233afd226`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).