republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2019/hb-99.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIMINAL/RECORDS: Provides relative to background checks for certain head coaches of youth athletes"
description: "CRIMINAL/RECORDS: Provides relative to background checks for certain head coaches of youth athletes"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 99"
citation: "Louisiana HB 99 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Reid Falconer"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 30
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-03-21"
last_action: "2019-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7e6960b8-09b0-4979-bb8e-36d07bff788e"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235762"
source_hash: "352ab28c89ffd209a203392ff2a109ead5b9e431057613f8b0d67f1f1c4c048d"
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 99 (2019) — CRIMINAL/RECORDS: Provides relative to background checks for certain head coaches of youth athletes

## Version chain

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

1. **HB99 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1116777)
2. **HB99 Act 143** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143676)
3. **HB99 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127199)
4. **HB99 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1134196)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1509, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127124)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #984, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1122943)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #1558, Falconer, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127538)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #1892, Falconer, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129396)
9. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1017, Pierre, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127357)
10. **HB99 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141181)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#308) — **83–3** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#727) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- CO-AUTHORS (#726) — **19–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Reid Falconer — primary (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
- Conrad Appel — cosponsor (person)
- Dan Claitor — cosponsor (person)
- Danny Martiny — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald Long — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory Tarver — cosponsor (person)
- Jack Donahue — cosponsor (person)
- John Alario — cosponsor (person)
- R. L. Bret Allain, II — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Ronnie Johns — cosponsor (person)
- Ryan Gatti — cosponsor (person)
- Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)
- Yvonne Colomb — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-06** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-06-06** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 143. `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.
- **2019-06-01** Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 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.
- **2019-05-21** Reported favorably.
- **2019-05-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-15** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-14** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 83, nays 3. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-14** Called from the calendar.
- **2019-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/14/19.
- **2019-05-13** Notice given.
- **2019-05-13** Notice removed
- **2019-05-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/13/19.
- **2019-05-06** Notice given.
- **2019-05-06** Notice removed
- **2019-04-30** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/06/19.
- **2019-04-30** Notice given.
- **2019-04-30** Read by title, amended, returned to the calendar.
- **2019-04-25** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/30/19.
- **2019-04-25** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-04-24** Reported with amendments (10-0-1).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-22** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/22/2019.
- **2019-03-21** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-21** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7e6960b8-09b0-4979-bb8e-36d07bff788e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).