---
type: "Bill"
title: "JUVENILE PROCEDURE: Revises procedures relative to students investigated for threats of violence or terrorism"
description: "JUVENILE PROCEDURE: Revises procedures relative to students investigated for threats of violence or terrorism"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 193"
citation: "Louisiana HB 193 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tony Bacala"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 20
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-03-26"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/94aaf1aa-b6cd-43e1-99c8-0794c90cd03b"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235896"
source_hash: "c582dae19e4d3307b8f1b4d0aba63ce34a59167d336134a3fa4529e31343e165"
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 193 (2019) — JUVENILE PROCEDURE: Revises procedures relative to students investigated for threats of violence or terrorism

## Version chain

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

1. **HB193 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1118806)
2. **HB193 Act 209** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144071)
3. **HB193 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129708)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2127, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1135481)
5. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2606, Appel, Proposed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1138813)
6. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2866, Morrish, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139448)
7. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #3107, Morrish, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1140587)
8. **HB193 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1142179)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#879) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#278) — **89–0** (pass) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 2866 BY MORRISH, HB 193 BY BACALA (#749) — **32–1** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#750) — **33–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Tony Bacala — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 209. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-05** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-05** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-03** Read by title, roll called, yeas 99, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2019-06-02** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/03/19.
- **2019-06-02** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2019-06-01** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 3 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-27** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-15** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `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 89, 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, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-01** Reported favorably (9-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-26** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `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/94aaf1aa-b6cd-43e1-99c8-0794c90cd03b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).