---
type: "Bill"
title: "UNEMPLOYMENT COMP: Provides relative to the duration of unemployment compensation benefits and provides for extended benefits (EN +$81,550 FF EX See Note)"
description: "UNEMPLOYMENT COMP: Provides relative to the duration of unemployment compensation benefits and provides for extended benefits (EN +$81,550 FF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 119"
citation: "Louisiana HB 119 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Troy D. Romero"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-02-21"
last_action: "2024-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0ec998cc-5a15-41e0-be67-068f1e34f977"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245683"
source_hash: "cb2ebdee9270a051241d1a3c9d5b85ce789094424d4ece0c0612f94d4cecf78a"
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 119 (2024) — UNEMPLOYMENT COMP: Provides relative to the duration of unemployment compensation benefits and provides for extended benefits (EN +$81,550 FF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB119 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1344880)
2. **HB119 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381889)
3. **HB119 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367267)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #2872, L&IR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364902)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #3304, L&IR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366987)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #3309, L&IR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367231)
7. **HB119 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377480)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#1050) — **27–11** (pass) · upper
- MODIFY TIME LIMITS (#696) — **49–41** (fail) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#697) — **71–28** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Troy D. Romero — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-03** Effective date: 01/01/2025.
- **2024-06-03** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 412. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-23** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-23** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-22** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-22** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-21** Read by title, passed by a vote of 27 yeas and 11 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-14** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-13** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-08** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-29** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-24** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-24** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-04-24** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 71, nays 28. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/24/2024.
- **2024-04-22** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-18** Reported with amendments (9-3). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-23** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/23/2024.
- **2024-02-21** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-21** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0ec998cc-5a15-41e0-be67-068f1e34f977`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).