---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: Provides relative to search warrants. (8/1/19)"
description: "CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: Provides relative to search warrants. (8/1/19)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 68"
citation: "Louisiana SB 68 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gary L. Smith, Jr."]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-26"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bc73de15-51d1-4274-adb3-ed3bb8ccb244"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235918"
source_hash: "5719b7486e7f6a6977f8cd49c3e9622c428e05ef9f58ff517062f76b7e6f32ef"
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 68 (2019) — CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: Provides relative to search warrants. (8/1/19)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB68 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1118885)
2. **SB68 Act 341** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144301)
3. **SB68 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1124839)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #639, JUDC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1124782)
5. **SB68 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139986)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#738) — **103–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#82) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — primary (person)
- Joseph Marino — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-11** Effective date 8/1/2019.
- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 341. `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 103, 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, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-22** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2019-05-21** Reported favorably (12-0-1). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-04-23** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-22** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2019-04-22** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 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** 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`
- **2019-03-26** 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/bc73de15-51d1-4274-adb3-ed3bb8ccb244`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).