---
type: "Bill"
title: "LIABILITY: Provides relative to community service litter abatement programs"
description: "LIABILITY: Provides relative to community service litter abatement programs"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 249"
citation: "Louisiana HB 249 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patrick Connick"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-27"
last_action: "2019-05-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eb3acafc-3ad5-4b9e-965f-7b7aa835ad3d"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236003"
source_hash: "1b4da31ae452ffeb078ec10b2f1f6230bbb1de70036c863e2ad055be3317fc9d"
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 249 (2019) — LIABILITY: Provides relative to community service litter abatement programs

## Version chain

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

1. **HB249 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1119756)
2. **HB249 Act 36** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141838)
3. **HB249 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1124457)
4. **HB249 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1126120)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1052, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1124036)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1109, CL&P, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1124440)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #1229, Crews, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1125669)
8. **HB249 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1136006)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#19) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#409) — **33–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Patrick Connick — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-30** Effective date: 08/01/19.
- **2019-05-30** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 36. `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-28** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-22** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-21** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-20** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-05-20** Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-16** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-15** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-14** Reported favorably.
- **2019-04-24** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-23** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-04-22** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-04-17** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/22/19.
- **2019-04-16** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-04-15** Reported with amendments (6-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `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/eb3acafc-3ad5-4b9e-965f-7b7aa835ad3d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).