---
type: "Bill"
title: "DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: Limits the incarceration of victims of domestic violence and sex offenses who refuse to testify against their abusers. (gov sig)"
description: "DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: Limits the incarceration of victims of domestic violence and sex offenses who refuse to testify against their abusers. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 146"
citation: "Louisiana SB 146 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J.P. Morrell"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 34
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-03-27"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0cde44cc-30ca-451a-bec0-e14980ad4a95"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236137"
source_hash: "eb811c690a833a52679bedcaeb27f53ecf6e667937a6a19d3ee365837c304306"
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 146 (2019) — DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: Limits the incarceration of victims of domestic violence and sex offenses who refuse to testify against their abusers. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB146 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1120856)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #3074, House Proposed, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1140494)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #2792, ACRJ, Proposed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1134913)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #3082, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1136335)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #3200, Duplessis, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1137021)
6. **House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2273, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1136598)
7. **SB146 Act 410** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144797)
8. **SB146 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1124835)
9. **SB146 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132851)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #605, JUDC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1124780)
11. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1708, Morrell, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132552)
12. **SB146 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143296)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#304) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- ADOPT (#960) — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- MOTION TO ADOPT (#1012) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- REJECT (#664) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#742) — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- J.P. Morrell — primary (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Edward Ted James — cosponsor (person)
- Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
- Troy Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Walt Leger, III — cosponsor (person)
- Wesley Bishop — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-11** Effective date 6/11/2019.
- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 410. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-06** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-06** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-06** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-05** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2019-06-05** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 94, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2019-06-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/05/19.
- **2019-06-04** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2019-06-04** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2019-06-04** Rules suspended.
- **2019-06-04** Conference committee report received.
- **2019-06-04** Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules.
- **2019-06-03** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2019-06-03** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2019-06-03** House conferees appointed: Duplessis, Mack, and Lyons.
- **2019-06-03** Senate conference committee members appointed: Morrell, Claitor, and Peterson.
- **2019-06-02** Notice of Senate rejecting House amendments.
- **2019-05-31** Amendments proposed by the House read and rejected by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2019-05-30** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2019-05-30** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/30/19.
- **2019-05-23** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-22** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2019-05-21** Reported with amendments (14-0-1). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-13** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-09** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2019-05-08** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-08** Called from the Calendar.
- **2019-04-23** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2019-04-17** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-04-16** Reported with amendments.
- **2019-04-08** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0cde44cc-30ca-451a-bec0-e14980ad4a95`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).