---
type: "Bill"
title: "HUMAN REMAINS: Provides relative to the disposition of the remains of a homicide victim"
description: "HUMAN REMAINS: Provides relative to the disposition of the remains of a homicide victim"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 102"
citation: "Louisiana HB 102 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sam Jones"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-21"
last_action: "2019-05-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6677b57a-ecae-40f3-a00f-d3a70ac710e5"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235765"
source_hash: "4794a319c379f725f1fc64088ff89ac45f9842e2761949969226d6756d318cda"
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 HB 102 (2019) — HUMAN REMAINS: Provides relative to the disposition of the remains of a homicide victim

## Version chain

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

1. **HB102 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1116773)
2. **HB102 Act 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139021)
3. **HB102 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1124967)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1057, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1124061)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1153, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1124857)
6. **HB102 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1134301)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#35) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#336) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Sam Jones — primary (person)
- Joseph Marino — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-24** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-05-24** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 4. `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-16** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-16** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-15** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-14** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-05-14** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-09** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-08** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-07** Reported favorably.
- **2019-04-25** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-24** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-04-23** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-04-17** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/23/19.
- **2019-04-17** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-04-16** Reported with amendments (12-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-22** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/22/2019.
- **2019-03-21** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-21** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6677b57a-ecae-40f3-a00f-d3a70ac710e5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).