republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2019/hb-85.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIMINAL/VICTIMS: Provides relative to criteria for making awards to crime victims"
description: "CRIMINAL/VICTIMS: Provides relative to criteria for making awards to crime victims"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 85"
citation: "Louisiana HB 85 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Robert E. Billiot"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 35
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-03-19"
last_action: "2019-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/589946c3-6c05-4e5d-9c35-84d046fc0e46"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235725"
source_hash: "551ccf8ade2ee70957c3e7c60e3eb8ac8ac1c9fabfdd073c94042bcb4de8e971"
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 85 (2019) — CRIMINAL/VICTIMS: Provides relative to criteria for making awards to crime victims

## Version chain

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

1. **HB85 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1116146)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #3207, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141921)
3. **HB85 Act 418** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144891)
4. **HB85 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127200)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1290, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1125823)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1520, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127085)
7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1945, Claitor, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1134219)
8. **HB85 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1142760)

## Votes

- MOTION TO ADOPT (#967) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#102) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#643) — **97–1** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#429) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- ADOPT (#961) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Robert E. Billiot — primary (person)
- Joseph Marino — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 418. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-05** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-05** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-04** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2019-06-04** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2019-06-04** Rules suspended.
- **2019-06-04** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2019-06-04** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 97, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2019-06-03** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/04/19.
- **2019-06-03** Conference committee report received.
- **2019-06-03** Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules.
- **2019-06-03** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2019-06-03** Senate conference committee members appointed: Claitor, Boudreaux, and Carter.
- **2019-05-31** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2019-05-31** House conferees appointed: Billiot, Mack, and Marino.
- **2019-05-29** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
- **2019-05-29** Read by title, roll called, yeas 97, nays 1, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
- **2019-05-23** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/19.
- **2019-05-21** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2019-05-21** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-20** Senate floor amendments read and adopted; read by title and returned to its regular order on third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-16** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-15** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-14** Reported favorably.
- **2019-05-01** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-30** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-04-30** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **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 (13-0-1).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-22** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/22/2019.
- **2019-03-19** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-19** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/589946c3-6c05-4e5d-9c35-84d046fc0e46`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).