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+type: "Bill"
+title: "VITAL RECORDS/DEATH CERT: Provides relative to the timeline for the issuance of death certificates"
+description: "VITAL RECORDS/DEATH CERT: Provides relative to the timeline for the issuance of death certificates"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "HB 203"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 203 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Tanner Magee"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2022-02-25"
+last_action: "2022-05-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7534c9db-5a2c-497e-877b-747802c32b29"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241783"
+source_hash: "b24d49ffdce81611edbc3074545f6e26ce025567b891b20d48aa93306184dc35"
+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 203 (2022) — VITAL RECORDS/DEATH CERT: Provides relative to the timeline for the issuance of death certificates
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB203 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1251060)
+2. **HB203 Act 134** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1286049)
+3. **HB203 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1271274)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #2255, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1267793)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #2824, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1271183)
+6. **HB203 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1280342)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#664) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#502) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Tanner Magee — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-05-25** Effective date: 08/01/2022.
+- **2022-05-25** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 134. `executive-signature`
+- **2022-05-20** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-05-19** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2022-05-18** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2022-05-17** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2022-05-17** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2022-05-15** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2022-05-12** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2022-05-11** Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
+- **2022-05-02** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-04-28** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2022-04-27** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2022-04-21** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/27/2022.
+- **2022-04-20** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2022-04-19** Reported with amendments (10-0).
+- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-25** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/25/2022.
+- **2022-02-25** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-25** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7534c9db-5a2c-497e-877b-747802c32b29`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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