republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2019/sb-129.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "ROADS/HIGHWAYS: Requires a local municipal or parish authority to allow certain pedestrians to stand in a roadway to solicit charitable contributions under certain circumstances. (8/1/19)"
description: "ROADS/HIGHWAYS: Requires a local municipal or parish authority to allow certain pedestrians to stand in a roadway to solicit charitable contributions under certain circumstances. (8/1/19)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 129"
citation: "Louisiana SB 129 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Yvonne Colomb"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-27"
last_action: "2019-06-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/79bf261f-82ac-4e35-a613-2be2494bc1b5"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236075"
source_hash: "1e4e1c1a0d76f1e0dd8cf31934d9d1b987186aa2edf2a717fabd2025f68b4be6"
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 SB 129 (2019) — ROADS/HIGHWAYS: Requires a local municipal or parish authority to allow certain pedestrians to stand in a roadway to solicit charitable contributions under certain circumstances. (8/1/19)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB129 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1120444)
2. **SB129 Act 123** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143720)
3. **SB129 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1133084)
4. **SB129 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1134687)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1776, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1133033)
6. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1810, Martiny, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1133169)
7. **SB129 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1140487)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#779) — **82–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#362) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Yvonne Colomb — primary (person)
- Barbara Norton — cosponsor (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald Long — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- John A. Johnny Berthelot — cosponsor (person)
- John Bagneris — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Wright — cosponsor (person)
- Mary DuBuisson — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Huval — cosponsor (person)
- Patricia Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)
- Paula Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
- Robert E. Billiot — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Hilferty — cosponsor (person)
- Stephen Dwight — cosponsor (person)
- Steve Pugh — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-05** Effective date 8/1/2019.
- **2019-06-05** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 123. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-04** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-02** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-01** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-31** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2019-05-31** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 82, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-31** Called from the calendar.
- **2019-05-31** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2019-05-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/31/19.
- **2019-05-28** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-23** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2019-05-22** Reported favorably (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-20** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-16** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2019-05-15** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-14** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-13** Reported with amendments.
- **2019-04-08** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/79bf261f-82ac-4e35-a613-2be2494bc1b5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).