---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to the compensation of persons wrongfully convicted (EN +$543,989 SD EX See Note)"
description: "CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to the compensation of persons wrongfully convicted (EN +$543,989 SD EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 492"
citation: "Louisiana HB 492 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ed Larvadain III"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 26
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-03-29"
last_action: "2019-06-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6ad66799-1fbf-4bb5-bf4e-f3f5e1e81d60"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236338"
source_hash: "43a89cf032d9534666bfb04eb39dcb62ef3d24dd3028e996c0e47120b3520253"
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 492 (2019) — CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to the compensation of persons wrongfully convicted (EN +$543,989 SD EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB492 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1122089)
2. **HB492 Act 121** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143565)
3. **HB492 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130015)
4. **HB492 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1137019)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1778, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1128756)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1972, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129931)
7. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1513, Pierre, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130666)
8. **HB492 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141500)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#525) — **96–1** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#851) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#488) — **52–31** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ed Larvadain III — primary (person)
- Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Norton — cosponsor (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
- Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Edward Ted James — cosponsor (person)
- Frankie Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
- James Armes — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
- Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Marino — cosponsor (person)
- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Patricia Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
- Randal L. Gaines — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Terry Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Terry Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas Carmody — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-05** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-06-05** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 121. `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.
- **2019-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-31** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-27** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-23** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-22** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-22** Called from the calendar.
- **2019-05-22** Rules suspended.
- **2019-05-22** Read by title, reconsidered, returned to the calendar, under the rules.
- **2019-05-22** Rules suspended.
- **2019-05-22** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 52, nays 31. Failed to pass, motion to reconsider pending.
- **2019-05-16** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/19.
- **2019-05-14** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-14** Discharged from the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2019-05-02** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2019-05-01** Reported with amendments (13-0-1).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6ad66799-1fbf-4bb5-bf4e-f3f5e1e81d60`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).