---
type: "Bill"
title: "RACING/HORSE: Provides relative to purse distribution"
description: "RACING/HORSE: Provides relative to purse distribution"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 385"
citation: "Louisiana HB 385 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Clay Schexnayder"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-29"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9d82c6b3-2709-4e40-8fa8-66c9755315a1"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236201"
source_hash: "7726640a6bdba1bf65147baf88456b149c562f825d44a58c239f7c4da6939f4b"
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 385 (2019) — RACING/HORSE: Provides relative to purse distribution

## Version chain

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

1. **HB385 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1121445)
2. **HB385 Act 328** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144257)
3. **HB385 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1128885)
4. **HB385 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132750)
5. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1342, Pierre, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129426)
6. **HB385 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1138451)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#230) — **97–1** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#510) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Clay Schexnayder — 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. 328. `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-29** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-28** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-05-27** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 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.
- **2019-05-13** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-09** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-08** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/08/19.
- **2019-05-01** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-04-30** Reported favorably (13-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9d82c6b3-2709-4e40-8fa8-66c9755315a1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).