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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TAX/INCOME TAX: Establishes income tax incentives for taxpayers related to fostering and adopting certain infants and children (EN -$687,000 GF RV See Note)"
+description: "TAX/INCOME TAX: Establishes income tax incentives for taxpayers related to fostering and adopting certain infants and children (EN -$687,000 GF RV See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 424"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 424 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jack McFarland"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-04-01"
+last_action: "2021-06-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bb369127-aabc-4fa4-848c-e70036460c31"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240354"
+source_hash: "af9c1d9ab666d781c48e270b1dd886184d12b4b6827b7e98eec611831e1fc827"
+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 424 (2021) — TAX/INCOME TAX: Establishes income tax incentives for taxpayers related to fostering and adopting certain infants and children (EN -$687,000 GF RV See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB424 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1210955)
+2. **HB424 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235711)
+3. **HB424 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219765)
+4. **HB424 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1223320)
+5. **House Floor Amendment, #2617, Wright, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222905)
+6. **HB424 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231325)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#343) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#689) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jack McFarland — primary (person)
+- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
+- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
+- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
+- Foy Gadberry — cosponsor (person)
+- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
+- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
+- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
+- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
+- Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
+- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
+- Mandie Landry — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark Wright — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
+- Neil Riser — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul Hollis — cosponsor (person)
+- Paula Davis — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
+- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
+- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
+- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
+- Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (person)
+- Wayne McMahen — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-06-16** Effective date: 01/01/2022
+- **2021-06-16** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 378. `executive-signature`
+- **2021-06-08** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-06-06** Signed by the President of the Senate on 6/3/2021.
+- **2021-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2021-06-03** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2021-06-02** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2021-05-25** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2021-05-24** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2021-05-13** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-05-12** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2021-05-11** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2021-05-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/11/2021.
+- **2021-05-04** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2021-05-03** Reported favorably (9-0).
+- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021.
+- **2021-04-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-01** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bb369127-aabc-4fa4-848c-e70036460c31`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+