---
type: "Bill"
title: "SEIZURES/SALES: Exempts the refundable portion of the child tax credit from seizure. (gov sig)"
description: "SEIZURES/SALES: Exempts the refundable portion of the child tax credit from seizure. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 217"
citation: "Louisiana SB 217 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mike Walsworth"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-27"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e0af58f0-a7f5-40ca-b601-e4d08f71d83a"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236444"
source_hash: "a02294f6c809fb811a849f24f2b8741209714549670ff82991298669f08fb34b"
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 217 (2019) — SEIZURES/SALES: Exempts the refundable portion of the child tax credit from seizure. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB217 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1122372)
2. **SB217 Act 197** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143904)
3. **SB217 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129002)
4. **SB217 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139906)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#725) — **92–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#230) — **30–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mike Walsworth — primary (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. 197. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-04** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-02** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-31** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-30** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2019-05-30** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/30/19.
- **2019-05-22** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-21** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2019-05-20** Reported favorably (7-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-06** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-02** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2019-05-02** Read by title, passed by a vote of 30 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-01** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-04-30** Reported favorably.
- **2019-04-08** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e0af58f0-a7f5-40ca-b601-e4d08f71d83a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).