---
type: "Bill"
title: "COURTS: Provides relative to marshals and constables"
description: "COURTS: Provides relative to marshals and constables"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 519"
citation: "Louisiana HB 519 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Les Farnum"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 27
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-05-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aca87334-d542-4f6b-b045-555a0ed71728"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246277"
source_hash: "dcdf42e2f1a6727dcd312de1900ea4893d49f116807fe1a95562d2acebf00f4b"
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 519 (2024) — COURTS: Provides relative to marshals and constables

## Version chain

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

1. **HB519 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1351359)
2. **HB519 Act 134** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378152)
3. **HB519 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362895)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1788, JUD, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358069)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2468, JUD, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362875)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2321, JUDB, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1368054)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2356, JUDB, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1368186)
8. **HB519 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1373192)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#932) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#495) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#569) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Les Farnum — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-22** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-05-22** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 134. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-14** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-13** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-13** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-08** Read by title, roll called, yeas 97, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-05-08** Called from the calendar.
- **2024-05-08** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2024-05-07** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/08/2024.
- **2024-05-07** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-07** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-29** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-24** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-04-23** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-15** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-15** Called from the calendar.
- **2024-04-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/15/2024.
- **2024-04-11** Notice given.
- **2024-04-11** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2024-04-09** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/11/2024.
- **2024-04-09** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-08** Reported with amendments (16-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/aca87334-d542-4f6b-b045-555a0ed71728`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).