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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TAX CREDITS: Establishes a refundable individual income tax credit for certain adoptions (EN -$1,300,000 GF RV See Note)"
+description: "TAX CREDITS: Establishes a refundable individual income tax credit for certain adoptions (EN -$1,300,000 GF RV See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 443"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 443 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Rick Edmonds"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 25
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2023-03-31"
+last_action: "2023-06-29"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3992fb16-f539-46bc-a4e0-08e8921e8650"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244399"
+source_hash: "4ae0a5b60c43aa9ca1d80059df8e75861bba5f2986b2e60fcd8b20b80d4c420c"
+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 443 (2023) — TAX CREDITS: Establishes a refundable individual income tax credit for certain adoptions (EN -$1,300,000 GF RV See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB443 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1309075)
+2. **HB443 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1333450)
+3. **HB443 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322258)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #1285, W&M, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1312548)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #2861, W&M, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321802)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #2916, W&M, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322244)
+7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2383, Luneau, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326732)
+8. **HB443 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1330909)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#867) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1084) — **91–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#561) — **97–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Rick Edmonds — primary (person)
+- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
+- Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
+- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
+- Beau Beaullieu — cosponsor (person)
+- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
+- Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
+- Chad Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
+- Danny McCormick — cosponsor (person)
+- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
+- Debbie Villio — cosponsor (person)
+- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
+- Gregory A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
+- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
+- John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
+- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
+- Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
+- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark Wright — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul Hollis — cosponsor (person)
+- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
+- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
+- Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
+- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
+- Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)
+- Thomas Pressly — cosponsor (person)
+- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
+- Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)
+- William "Bill" Wheat , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-06-29** Effective date: 06/29/2023.
+- **2023-06-29** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 452. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2023-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2023-06-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2023-06-06** Read by title, roll called, yeas 91, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
+- **2023-06-05** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/06/2023.
+- **2023-06-05** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
+- **2023-06-05** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2023-06-05** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
+- **2023-06-04** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
+- **2023-06-04** Rules suspended.
+- **2023-05-31** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-30** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2023-05-29** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-05-23** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2023-05-22** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2023-05-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2023-05-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/2023.
+- **2023-05-16** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-15** Reported with amendments (13-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
+- **2023-03-31** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-31** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3992fb16-f539-46bc-a4e0-08e8921e8650`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+