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+type: "Bill"
+title: "CHILDREN: Provides relative to child welfare information. (gov sig)"
+description: "CHILDREN: Provides relative to child welfare information. (gov sig)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 459"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 459 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Regina Ashford Barrow"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-03-12"
+last_action: "2018-05-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/131bff43-39d3-4f51-8c52-269d690afaba"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=234315"
+source_hash: "af51a40c8868a6f54821de9caeba772c7d188d5cdc01e365c199aefcb2d2fdb9"
+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 459 (2018) — CHILDREN: Provides relative to child welfare information. (gov sig)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB459 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1074179)
+2. **SB459 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1097985)
+3. **SB459 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1077640)
+4. **SB459 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1084414)
+5. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2224, Barrow, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1084027)
+6. **SB459 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1093832)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#289) — **34–0** (pass) · legislature
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#744) — **96–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Regina Ashford Barrow — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-05-15** Effective date 5/15/2018.
+- **2018-05-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 160. `executive-signature`
+- **2018-05-09** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-05-08** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2018-05-08** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2018-05-07** Received from the House without amendments.
+- **2018-05-03** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2018-05-03** Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
+- **2018-04-27** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/03/18.
+- **2018-04-19** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2018-04-18** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2018-04-17** Reported favorably (13-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2018-04-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-04-10** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2018-04-09** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2018-03-22** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2018-03-21** Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
+- **2018-03-13** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-12** Introduced in the Senate. Read by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/131bff43-39d3-4f51-8c52-269d690afaba`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+