---
type: "Bill"
title: "PUBLIC BUILDINGS/GROUNDS: Authorizes the governing authority of Amite City to name a fire station in honor of a living person"
description: "PUBLIC BUILDINGS/GROUNDS: Authorizes the governing authority of Amite City to name a fire station in honor of a living person"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 18"
citation: "Louisiana HB 18 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Robert Carter"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-20"
last_action: "2019-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bcad324a-1ec3-4241-b97b-ffe87d23088a"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235634"
source_hash: "c241a8dc566e7bf25ae030ed45bf26782f3aa7653cdfa74a73ddb4ab8df67cad"
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 18 (2019) — PUBLIC BUILDINGS/GROUNDS: Authorizes the governing authority of Amite City to name a fire station in honor of a living person

## Version chain

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

1. **HB18 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1112962)
2. **HB18 Act 131** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143664)
3. **HB18 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132489)
4. **HB18 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141183)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#820) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#452) — **93–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Robert Carter — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-06** Effective date: 06/06/2019.
- **2019-06-06** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 131. `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.
- **2019-05-31** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-30** 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 Local and Municipal Affairs. `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 93, nays 0. 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** Reported favorably (13-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-22** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/22/2019.
- **2019-02-20** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-20** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bcad324a-1ec3-4241-b97b-ffe87d23088a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).