republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2019/hb-518.md

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Bill	CRIMINAL/SENTENCING: Provides relative to the sentencing of habitual offenders	CRIMINAL/SENTENCING: Provides relative to the sentencing of habitual offenders	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2019	HB 518	Louisiana HB 518 (2019)	bill		enacted	Randal L. Gaines	9	27	5	2019-03-29	2019-06-20	openstates	ocd-bill/98bd27d6-b5a6-410b-85dd-adc29e2bc99d	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236364	21191b259cb110c404478b182bf01633a5fb1510be24131518fc0cc4a3615a1a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 518 (2019) — CRIMINAL/SENTENCING: Provides relative to the sentencing of habitual offenders

Version chain

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

1. HB518 Original (filed) — source
2. HB518 Act 386 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB518 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB518 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #2181, ACRJ, Draft (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #2306, ACRJ, Rejected (committee substitute) — source
7. House Floor Amendment, #2558, Gaines, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. House Floor Amendment, #2793, Gaines, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. HB518 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 2/3 vote (#967) — 28–11 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#988) — 30–6 (pass) · upper
• MOTION TO CONSIDER AFTER 57TH DAY (#983) — 101–0 (pass) · lower
• 2/3 vote (#957) — 22–10 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#490) — 59–29 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Randal L. Gaines — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-06-20 Effective date: 08/01/2019.
• 2019-06-20 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 386. executive-signature
• 2019-06-06 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2019-06-06 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2019-06-06 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2019-06-05 Received from the Senate without amendments.
• 2019-06-05 Read by title, passed by a vote of 30 yeas and 6 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2019-06-05 Notice House approved consideration after 6:00 p.m. on the 57th calendar day.
• 2019-06-04 By a vote of 101 yeas, 0 nays, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, the House approved consideration after the 57th calendar day.
• 2019-06-04 Read by title. The Senate approved consideration after 6:00 p.m. on the 57th calendar day by a vote of 28 yeas and 11 nays.
• 2019-06-04 Read by title. The Senate failed to approve consideration after the 57th calendar day by a vote of 22 yeas and 10 nays.
• 2019-06-04 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2019-06-04 Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2019-06-04 Rules suspended.
• 2019-06-03 Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
• 2019-05-27 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. 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 59, nays 29. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2019-05-16 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/19.
• 2019-05-14 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2019-05-14 Read by Title. Committee Amendments were rejected. Floor amendments adopted.
• 2019-05-14 Called from the calendar.
• 2019-05-08 Read by title, returned to the calendar.
• 2019-05-07 Reported with amendments (11-0).
• 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; origin ocd-bill/98bd27d6-b5a6-410b-85dd-adc29e2bc99d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).