---
type: "Bill"
title: "GAMING/CASINO: Provides with respect to the land-based casino operating contract (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD RV See Note)"
description: "GAMING/CASINO: Provides with respect to the land-based casino operating contract (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 544"
citation: "Louisiana HB 544 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Taylor F. Barras"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 22
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-03-29"
last_action: "2019-06-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f5a712a8-58e2-4525-bf38-e010e603ddfa"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236394"
source_hash: "bc92324e3821e481b7fad4ac0c281e818ca5d26e283f2a542b02e44e3a05cb5f"
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 544 (2019) — GAMING/CASINO: Provides with respect to the land-based casino operating contract (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB544 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1122232)
2. **HB544 Act 171** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143879)
3. **HB544 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127238)
4. **HB544 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130683)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1210, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1125299)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1522, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127129)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2000, Barras, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130047)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #2020, Abramson, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130276)
9. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1018, Pierre, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127358)
10. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2643, Peterson, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1138304)
11. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2653, Peterson, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1138338)
12. **HB544 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1138740)

## Votes

- AMENDMENT # 2653 BY PETERSON, HB 544 BY MR. SPEAKER (#533) — **16–19** (fail) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#534) — **27–10** (pass) · upper
- AMENDMENT # 2643 BY PETERSON, HB 544 BY MR. SPEAKER (#532) — **4–28** (fail) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#134) — **84–9** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Taylor F. Barras — primary (person)
- Barbara Norton — cosponsor (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- John Alario — cosponsor (person)
- John Bagneris — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Stokes — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Patricia Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
- Randal L. Gaines — cosponsor (person)
- Robert E. Billiot — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Stuart Moss — cosponsor (person)
- Terry Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
- Walt Leger, III — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-07** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-06-07** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 171. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-30** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-29** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-05-28** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 27 yeas and 10 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-23** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-22** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-22** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
- **2019-05-22** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2019-05-21** Reported favorably.
- **2019-05-07** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-06** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-02** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 84, nays 9. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-02** Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
- **2019-04-25** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/02/19.
- **2019-04-25** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-04-24** 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/f5a712a8-58e2-4525-bf38-e010e603ddfa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).