---
type: "Bill"
title: "COURTS: Provides relative to justice of the peace courts and constables in St. Tammany Parish. (gov sig)"
description: "COURTS: Provides relative to justice of the peace courts and constables in St. Tammany Parish. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 70"
citation: "Louisiana SB 70 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jack Donahue"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-26"
last_action: "2019-05-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2971c2c8-7813-4908-82d4-2acbaa9dde56"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235920"
source_hash: "4c853e1e2c53389b42a20bc2e627892759161307eec8c75707f92c5514b436fe"
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 70 (2019) — COURTS: Provides relative to justice of the peace courts and constables in St. Tammany Parish. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB70 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1118889)
2. **SB70 Act 28** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1140117)
3. **SB70 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1126352)
4. **SB70 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127489)
5. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #932, Martiny, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1126816)
6. **SB70 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1137775)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#140) — **30–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#580) — **87–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jack Donahue — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-30** Effective date 5/30/2019.
- **2019-05-30** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 28. `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-30** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-28** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-28** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-27** Received from the House without 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`
- **2019-05-16** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/23/19.
- **2019-05-13** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-09** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2019-05-08** Reported favorably (13-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-04-30** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-29** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2019-04-25** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 30 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-04-24** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-04-23** 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`
- **2019-03-26** 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/2971c2c8-7813-4908-82d4-2acbaa9dde56`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).