---
type: "Bill"
title: "COURTS/CITY: Provides relative to Baton Rouge City Court probation officers (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)"
description: "COURTS/CITY: Provides relative to Baton Rouge City Court probation officers (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 218"
citation: "Louisiana HB 218 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["C. Denise Marcelle"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 36
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-03-27"
last_action: "2019-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0718c465-b8c5-44c5-96d0-5ce7a1109975"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235946"
source_hash: "acc06be6ff83f9104c13933254f10b5db13adab856ff0b84240bf3d56a29ba90"
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 218 (2019) — COURTS/CITY: Provides relative to Baton Rouge City Court probation officers (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB218 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1119208)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #3766, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1142847)
3. **HB218 Act 379** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144614)
4. **HB218 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130438)
5. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3270, Claitor, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141602)
6. **HB218 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143503)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#469) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1036) — **89–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#891) — **37–1** (pass) · upper
- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#977) — **102–0** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT (#1024) — **31–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- C. Denise Marcelle — primary (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. 379. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-10** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-06** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-06** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-06** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2019-06-06** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2019-06-06** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 89, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2019-06-06** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 31 yeas and 1 nays.
- **2019-06-06** Conference Committee report received.
- **2019-06-05** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2019-06-05** Senate conference committee members appointed: Gary Smith, Colomb, and Claitor.
- **2019-06-05** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2019-06-05** House conferees appointed: Marcelle, Jackson, and McFarland.
- **2019-06-04** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
- **2019-06-04** Read by title, roll called, yeas 102, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
- **2019-06-04** Called from the calendar.
- **2019-06-04** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2019-06-03** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/04/19.
- **2019-06-03** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2019-06-03** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-31** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-21** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-21** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-21** Called from the calendar.
- **2019-05-15** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/19.
- **2019-05-15** Notice given.
- **2019-05-15** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2019-05-07** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/19.
- **2019-05-06** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-02** Reported favorably (15-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0718c465-b8c5-44c5-96d0-5ce7a1109975`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).