---
type: "Bill"
title: "COURTS/COURT COSTS: Provides relative to the use of court costs and fees for services by constables and marshals (EN NO IMPACT LF RV See Note)"
description: "COURTS/COURT COSTS: Provides relative to the use of court costs and fees for services by constables and marshals (EN NO IMPACT LF RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 512"
citation: "Louisiana HB 512 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kenny Cox"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-29"
last_action: "2019-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/35eec1d4-efa3-4fbe-a6b4-4cb9717787af"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236358"
source_hash: "70f6e08a5a11b3da6e7ebc4681b03b1915f58f8d8c466a55bfb445bbf89ef92b"
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 512 (2019) — COURTS/COURT COSTS: Provides relative to the use of court costs and fees for services by constables and marshals (EN NO IMPACT LF RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB512 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1122125)
2. **HB512 Act 166** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143699)
3. **HB512 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130421)
4. **HB512 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1134791)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #2325, Coussan, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1131953)
6. **HB512 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139602)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#356) — **91–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#579) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kenny Cox — primary (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (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. 166. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-31** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-30** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-05-29** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-27** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-20** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance. `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, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, 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 (14-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `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/35eec1d4-efa3-4fbe-a6b4-4cb9717787af`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).