republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024s2/hb-19.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "APPROPRIATIONS/SUPPLEML: To make supplemental appropriations for the 2023-2024 Fiscal Year (Item # 6)"
description: "APPROPRIATIONS/SUPPLEML: To make supplemental appropriations for the 2023-2024 Fiscal Year (Item # 6)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024s2"
identifier: "HB 19"
citation: "Louisiana HB 19 (2024s2)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jack McFarland"]
version_count: 14
action_count: 17
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2024-02-19"
last_action: "2024-03-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e543a4e1-a131-41d2-8645-7e727b5a4d0b"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245661"
source_hash: "a82e310023f0c50b172d3c815f2f84a7557a451dfc30080b03afec9946247152"
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 19 (2024s2) — APPROPRIATIONS/SUPPLEML: To make supplemental appropriations for the 2023-2024 Fiscal Year (Item # 6)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB19 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1344067)
2. **HB19 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1353233)
3. **HB19 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1344350)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #60, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1344181)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #61, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1344148)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #106, Landry, Mandie, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1344954)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #122, Freeman, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1345348)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #123, Boyd, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1345355)
9. **House Floor Amendment, #124, Jackson, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1345419)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #313, FNCE, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1348080)
11. **Senate Committee Amendment, #315, FNCE, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1348172)
12. **Senate Committee Amendment, #320, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1348451)
13. **Senate Floor Amendment, #357, Edmonds, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1349880)
14. **HB19 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1350182)

## Votes

- AMENDMENT # 124 BY JACKSON, MOTION TO ADOPT (#41) — **32–70** (fail) · lower
- APPROPRIATIONS (#17) — **73–28** (pass) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 122 BY FREEMAN, MOTION TO ADOPT (#40) — **29–73** (fail) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#97) — **75–23** (pass) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 357 BY EDMONDS, HB 19 BY MCFARLAND (#65) — **27–11** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#42) — **88–16** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#66) — **31–8** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jack McFarland — primary (person)
- Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-03-06** Effective date: 03/6/2024.
- **2024-03-06** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 20. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-02-29** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-02-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-02-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-02-29** Read by title, roll called, yeas 74, nays 24, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-02-29** Rules suspended.
- **2024-02-29** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-02-29** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 31 yeas and 8 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-02-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-02-28** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-25** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 88, nays 16. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-02-21** Scheduled for floor debate on 02/22/2024.
- **2024-02-21** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-02-20** Reported favorably (23-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-19** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e543a4e1-a131-41d2-8645-7e727b5a4d0b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).