---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH CARE/FACILITIES: Transfers management of the state's leasing of the John J. Hainkel, Jr., Home from the La. Dept. of Health to the LSU Health Sciences Center at New Orleans"
description: "HEALTH CARE/FACILITIES: Transfers management of the state's leasing of the John J. Hainkel, Jr., Home from the La. Dept. of Health to the LSU Health Sciences Center at New Orleans"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 619"
citation: "Louisiana HB 619 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jim Morris"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-05-08"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bcc95521-7fae-4136-9d17-805957debce0"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236921"
source_hash: "788aca3920e56d3ba73d71af9f033d6c90a1b027f22d497af8ea322f8c7a3bb6"
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 619 (2019) — HEALTH CARE/FACILITIES: Transfers management of the state's leasing of the John J. Hainkel, Jr., Home from the La. Dept. of Health to the LSU Health Sciences Center at New Orleans

## Version chain

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

1. **HB619 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132138)
2. **HB619 Act 257** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144123)
3. **HB619 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132277)
4. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3130, Mills, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1140648)
5. **HB619 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141244)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#467) — **96–1** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#819) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jim Morris — primary (person)
- Neil Abramson — cosponsor (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. 257. `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 38 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** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-21** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-21** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-09** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/19.
- **2019-05-09** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-08** Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 475 reported by the Committee on Health and Welfare (11-0).

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bcc95521-7fae-4136-9d17-805957debce0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).