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+type: "Bill"
+title: "VITAL STATISTICS: Provides relative to certificates of stillbirth"
+description: "VITAL STATISTICS: Provides relative to certificates of stillbirth"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 177"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 177 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Steve Pugh"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2019-03-26"
+last_action: "2019-06-04"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5b7549b5-19f1-4628-b192-b3505f7afdea"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235880"
+source_hash: "dd5970205a7b79a70538ab110df175dc24eb6271d7d175411929ed4f08aaf23a"
+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 177 (2019) — VITAL STATISTICS: Provides relative to certificates of stillbirth
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB177 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1118634)
+2. **HB177 Act 100** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143278)
+3. **HB177 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129740)
+4. **HB177 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1134004)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #1219, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1125473)
+6. **House Floor Amendment, #2007, Pugh, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130130)
+7. **Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2408, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1137487)
+8. **HB177 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1140305)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#539) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#276) — **85–0** (pass) · lower
+- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#768) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Steve Pugh — primary (person)
+- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-06-04** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
+- **2019-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 100. `executive-signature`
+- **2019-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-06-03** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2019-06-02** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2019-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 95, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
+- **2019-05-29** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/19.
+- **2019-05-29** Received from the Senate with amendments.
+- **2019-05-28** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2019-05-27** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2019-05-23** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2019-05-22** Reported favorably.
+- **2019-05-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-15** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2019-05-14** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 85, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2019-05-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/14/19.
+- **2019-05-02** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2019-05-01** Reported favorably (9-0).
+- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-26** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-26** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5b7549b5-19f1-4628-b192-b3505f7afdea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+