---
type: "Bill"
title: "COURTS/COURT COSTS: Provides for certain fees to be dedicated to the operational costs of the office of coroner in Concordia Parish (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF RV See Note)"
description: "COURTS/COURT COSTS: Provides for certain fees to be dedicated to the operational costs of the office of coroner in Concordia Parish (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 249"
citation: "Louisiana HB 249 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["C. Travis Johnson"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-26"
last_action: "2020-06-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ee51a266-a4f9-46a9-abdd-bde76f609b6a"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237801"
source_hash: "fd5ebb83556dfbbbfcccb0aed1abfddd70da3fda0e35954cd9029446f6cf2149"
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 249 (2020) — COURTS/COURT COSTS: Provides for certain fees to be dedicated to the operational costs of the office of coroner in Concordia Parish (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB249 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1159973)
2. **HB249 Act 135** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1181444)
3. **HB249 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170113)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1545, JUD, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169620)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1597, JUD, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170069)
6. **HB249 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176737)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#413) — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#108) — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- C. Travis Johnson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-09** Effective date: 08/01/2020.
- **2020-06-09** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 135. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-05-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-28** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-28** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2020-05-27** Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-26** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-26** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-25** Reported favorably.
- **2020-05-18** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/20.
- **2020-05-13** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-07** Reported with amendments (10-0).
- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-26** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-26** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ee51a266-a4f9-46a9-abdd-bde76f609b6a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).