---
type: "Bill"
title: "LEGISLATIVE AUDITOR: Provides for review and reports on cost recovery budget request forms completed by certain budget units. (gov sig) (EG1 NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "LEGISLATIVE AUDITOR: Provides for review and reports on cost recovery budget request forms completed by certain budget units. (gov sig) (EG1 NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 159"
citation: "Louisiana SB 159 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jack Donahue"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 30
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-03-27"
last_action: "2019-06-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/67240d6c-0b5f-4cdd-8e21-8cfeb96dd032"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236150"
source_hash: "6058b1f146c0880611d313f7a86abcd36741c3100468c05bf92a39dc226e0eac"
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 159 (2019) — LEGISLATIVE AUDITOR: Provides for review and reports on cost recovery budget request forms completed by certain budget units. (gov sig) (EG1 NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB159 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1120973)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #3454, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1142951)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #2661, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1134044)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #2720, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1134389)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #3404, Morris, Jim, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1138993)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #3405, Morris, Jim, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139015)
7. **SB159 Act 440** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144972)
8. **SB159 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129169)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1287, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129063)
10. **SB159 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143481)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#241) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1027) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- REJECT (#604) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#656) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT (#994) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jack Donahue — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-22** Effective date 6/22/2019.
- **2019-06-22** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 440. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-06** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/7/2019. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-06** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-06** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-06** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2019-06-06** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 93, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2019-06-05** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/06/19.
- **2019-06-05** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2019-06-05** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2019-06-05** Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules.
- **2019-06-04** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2019-06-04** House conferees appointed: Falconer, Gregory Miller, and Jim Morris.
- **2019-06-03** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2019-06-03** Senate conference committee members appointed: LaFleur, Donahue, and Allain.
- **2019-05-30** Notice of Senate rejecting House amendments.
- **2019-05-30** Rules suspended. Amendments proposed by the House read and rejected by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2019-05-29** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2019-05-29** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/29/19.
- **2019-05-20** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-16** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2019-05-15** Reported with amendments (9-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-07** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-06** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2019-05-06** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-01** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-04-30** Reported with amendments.
- **2019-04-08** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Finance. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Finance. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/67240d6c-0b5f-4cdd-8e21-8cfeb96dd032`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).