---
type: "Bill"
title: "LEGISLATION: Provides for technical corrections to various provisions of Title 17 of the La. Revised Statutes"
description: "LEGISLATION: Provides for technical corrections to various provisions of Title 17 of the La. Revised Statutes"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 343"
citation: "Louisiana HB 343 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Steve Carter"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-28"
last_action: "2019-05-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/95b85578-8468-4b27-9de2-827bba8cf3e2"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236130"
source_hash: "27dfc399cf50f9ef8fa2d9f10de47138e759d65cf93ada7cf5a291ad6b251b54"
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 343 (2019) — LEGISLATION: Provides for technical corrections to various provisions of Title 17 of the La. Revised Statutes

## Version chain

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

1. **HB343 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1120835)
2. **HB343 Act 21** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139044)
3. **HB343 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1126945)
4. **HB343 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1136015)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#401) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#125) — **102–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Steve Carter — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-28** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-05-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 21. `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-23** 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 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-15** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-14** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-13** Reported favorably.
- **2019-05-06** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-02** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-01** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-04-25** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/01/19.
- **2019-04-25** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-04-24** Reported favorably (9-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `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/95b85578-8468-4b27-9de2-827bba8cf3e2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).