---
type: "Bill"
title: "SHERIFFS: Provides relative to payment of insurance premiums for certain sheriffs and deputy sheriffs of the St. Landry Parish Sheriff's Office (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)"
description: "SHERIFFS: Provides relative to payment of insurance premiums for certain sheriffs and deputy sheriffs of the St. Landry Parish Sheriff's Office (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 298"
citation: "Louisiana HB 298 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dustin Miller"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-28"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d71cb41b-6569-4a84-8d70-02935e55e6c0"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236060"
source_hash: "1eb7e3b45144e6dd516d31a5e36e778f8fa04ae51a55dbadb2c80db784e2e7ec"
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 298 (2019) — SHERIFFS: Provides relative to payment of insurance premiums for certain sheriffs and deputy sheriffs of the St. Landry Parish Sheriff's Office (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB298 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1120372)
2. **HB298 Act 309** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144239)
3. **HB298 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132609)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #2404, JUD, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132466)
5. **HB298 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141201)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#449) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#800) — **37–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dustin Miller — 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. 309. `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.
- **2019-06-02** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-06-02** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-06-02** Rules suspended.
- **2019-05-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-29** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-28** Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
- **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 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-21** Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
- **2019-05-09** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/19.
- **2019-05-09** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-08** Reported with amendments (14-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d71cb41b-6569-4a84-8d70-02935e55e6c0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).