---
type: "Bill"
title: "DOMESTIC ABUSE: Provides relative to temporary restraining orders and protective orders in domestic abuse cases"
description: "DOMESTIC ABUSE: Provides relative to temporary restraining orders and protective orders in domestic abuse cases"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 36"
citation: "Louisiana HB 36 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John Stefanski"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-27"
last_action: "2019-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d43a30d0-900f-45c3-87ba-f71406ca8586"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235665"
source_hash: "d672211f325c0720efa25a1310fa421f07e68c6a572d25f007bfab64704fe66f"
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 36 (2019) — DOMESTIC ABUSE: Provides relative to temporary restraining orders and protective orders in domestic abuse cases

## Version chain

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

1. **HB36 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1113729)
2. **HB36 Act 417** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144889)
3. **HB36 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127241)
4. **HB36 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129188)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1235, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1125554)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1517, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127056)
7. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1011, Pierre, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127350)
8. **HB36 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141179)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#98) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#724) — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- John Stefanski — primary (person)
- Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Troy Carter — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 417. `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.
- **2019-06-01** Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-23** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-22** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-21** Reported favorably.
- **2019-05-02** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-01** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-04-30** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-04-25** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/30/19.
- **2019-04-25** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-04-24** Reported with amendments (8-0-1).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-01** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/1/2019.
- **2019-02-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-27** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d43a30d0-900f-45c3-87ba-f71406ca8586`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).