---
type: "Bill"
title: "WITNESSES/FEES: Provides relative to surplus witness fees of off-duty law enforcement officers"
description: "WITNESSES/FEES: Provides relative to surplus witness fees of off-duty law enforcement officers"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 39"
citation: "Louisiana HB 39 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jack McFarland"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-01"
last_action: "2019-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5e48a9fb-8d0c-4af1-8c93-ca301f4084c4"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235668"
source_hash: "52f5b9529cd92a16d23aa9b04be7f81e290929db8549414d2809d94778e75a94"
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 39 (2019) — WITNESSES/FEES: Provides relative to surplus witness fees of off-duty law enforcement officers

## Version chain

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

1. **HB39 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1113938)
2. **HB39 Act 136** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143669)
3. **HB39 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130429)
4. **HB39 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141445)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#329) — **92–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#777) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jack McFarland — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-06** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-06-06** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 136. `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 0 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.
- **2019-05-20** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-16** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-07** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/19.
- **2019-05-06** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-02** Reported favorably (11-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-01** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/1/2019.
- **2019-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5e48a9fb-8d0c-4af1-8c93-ca301f4084c4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).