---
type: "Bill"
title: "LAW ENFORCE/OFFICERS: Provides relative to financial security for surviving spouses and children of certain cadets (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
description: "LAW ENFORCE/OFFICERS: Provides relative to financial security for surviving spouses and children of certain cadets (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 170"
citation: "Louisiana HB 170 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sam Jones"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-03-26"
last_action: "2019-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/75b7c953-c524-42d7-90d6-2699dc927833"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235873"
source_hash: "bdad493541f78d2ef7ed75754c2ea6df562eb5c62d889e830fb200d900043dbd"
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 170 (2019) — LAW ENFORCE/OFFICERS: Provides relative to financial security for surviving spouses and children of certain cadets (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB170 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1118629)
2. **HB170 Act 378** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144613)
3. **HB170 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129512)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1790, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1128791)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1871, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129157)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2135, FNCE, Proposed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1135495)
7. **HB170 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1140312)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#274) — **88–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#488) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#756) — **92–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Sam Jones — primary (person)
- Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
- Chad Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Charles R. "Bubba" Chaney — cosponsor (person)
- Clay Schexnayder — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
- H. Bernard LeBas — cosponsor (person)
- J. Rogers Pope — cosponsor (person)
- James Armes — cosponsor (person)
- John A. Johnny Berthelot — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Marino — cosponsor (person)
- Kevin Pearson — cosponsor (person)
- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
- Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
- Robert E. Billiot — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Hilferty — cosponsor (person)
- Steve Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Steven E. Pylant — cosponsor (person)
- Stuart J. Bishop — cosponsor (person)
- Terry Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
- Valarie Hodges — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-20** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 378. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 92, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2019-05-31** Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
- **2019-05-28** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/19.
- **2019-05-28** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2019-05-27** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-22** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-21** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-20** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments.
- **2019-05-15** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-14** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-14** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 88, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/14/19.
- **2019-05-02** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-01** Reported with amendments (18-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-26** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-26** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/75b7c953-c524-42d7-90d6-2699dc927833`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).