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+type: "Bill"
+title: "HUMAN REMAINS: Provides relative to post-abortion interment or cremation of human remains"
+description: "HUMAN REMAINS: Provides relative to post-abortion interment or cremation of human remains"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 273"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 273 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Frank Hoffmann"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-02-28"
+last_action: "2018-05-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/515c7629-6baf-4cfd-9757-bd80e01fdebf"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233578"
+source_hash: "807fa0574d01f2e872710bc36fecf64afb0218d83e38230a475a608cad79e543"
+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 273 (2018) — HUMAN REMAINS: Provides relative to post-abortion interment or cremation of human remains
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB273 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1070015)
+2. **HB273 Act 204** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1099060)
+3. **HB273 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1082941)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #2086, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1081028)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #2226, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1082853)
+6. **HB273 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1094007)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#358) — **95–1** (pass) · legislature
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#742) — **31–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Frank Hoffmann — primary (person)
+- Andy Anders — cosponsor (person)
+- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
+- Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
+- Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
+- Chad Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Charles R. "Bubba" Chaney — cosponsor (person)
+- Chris Hazel — cosponsor (person)
+- Clay Schexnayder — cosponsor (person)
+- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
+- H. Bernard LeBas — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Rogers Pope — cosponsor (person)
+- Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeff Hall — cosponsor (person)
+- Jerome "Dee" Richard — cosponsor (person)
+- Jerry "Truck" Gisclair — cosponsor (person)
+- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
+- John A. Johnny Berthelot — cosponsor (person)
+- John E. "Johnny" Guinn — cosponsor (person)
+- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
+- Julie Stokes — cosponsor (person)
+- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
+- Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
+- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Danahay — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Huval — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Walsworth — cosponsor (person)
+- Nicholas Muscarello — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick Connick — cosponsor (person)
+- Paula Davis — cosponsor (person)
+- Polly Thomas — cosponsor (person)
+- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
+- Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
+- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
+- Reid Falconer — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie Hilferty — cosponsor (person)
+- Steven E. Pylant — cosponsor (person)
+- Tanner Magee — cosponsor (person)
+- Taylor F. Barras — cosponsor (person)
+- Terry Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Thomas Carmody — cosponsor (person)
+- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
+- Valarie Hodges — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-05-15** Effective date: 05/15/2018.
+- **2018-05-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 204. `executive-signature`
+- **2018-05-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-05-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2018-05-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2018-05-07** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2018-05-07** Read by title, passed by a vote of 31 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2018-04-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2018-04-26** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2018-04-25** Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
+- **2018-04-12** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-04-11** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2018-04-10** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2018-04-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/10/18.
+- **2018-04-05** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2018-04-04** Reported with amendments (10-0).
+- **2018-03-12** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-28** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/515c7629-6baf-4cfd-9757-bd80e01fdebf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+