---
type: "Bill"
title: "JUDGES: Provides relative to salaries for judges as recommended by the Judicial Compensation Commission. (gov sig) (EN +$1,802,964 OF EX See Note)"
description: "JUDGES: Provides relative to salaries for judges as recommended by the Judicial Compensation Commission. (gov sig) (EN +$1,802,964 OF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 27"
citation: "Louisiana SB 27 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Danny Martiny"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-15"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/22bbbf05-7752-4f24-ba15-639457199257"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235706"
source_hash: "f9590c3db0301eefddaf6f8093c27ab41a5ff87d610c4b1463e73c66006bea1b"
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 SB 27 (2019) — JUDGES: Provides relative to salaries for judges as recommended by the Judicial Compensation Commission. (gov sig) (EN +$1,802,964 OF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB27 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1115351)
2. **SB27 Act 178** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143917)
3. **SB27 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129004)
4. **SB27 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1134187)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1931, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1134138)
6. **SB27 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1140483)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#386) — **35–1** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#778) — **90–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Danny Martiny — primary (person)
- Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-11** Effective date 6/11/2019.
- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 178. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-04** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-02** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-01** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-31** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2019-05-31** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 3. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-30** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/31/19.
- **2019-05-30** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-29** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2019-05-28** Reported favorably (18-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-21** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-20** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2019-05-20** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 1 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-16** Read by title; Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered reengrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-15** Reported with amendments.
- **2019-05-01** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2019-04-30** Reported favorably.
- **2019-04-08** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-15** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/22bbbf05-7752-4f24-ba15-639457199257`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).