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+type: "Bill"
+title: "CORONERS: Provides relative to cremation of bodies. (8/1/23)"
+description: "CORONERS: Provides relative to cremation of bodies. (8/1/23)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 187"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 187 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Caleb Kleinpeter"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 30
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2023-03-31"
+last_action: "2023-06-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/286f5389-b95a-4f7b-afe4-a7580e069d28"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244599"
+source_hash: "83be634036256f86c0bcfe3b5e23424912503785a51287339f7d5156b1e5a953"
+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 187 (2023) — CORONERS: Provides relative to cremation of bodies. (8/1/23)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB187 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1309952)
+2. **Conference Committee Report, #3024, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331961)
+3. **House Floor Amendment, #4098, Jordan, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329999)
+4. **SB187 Act 332** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332550)
+5. **SB187 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320297)
+6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1500, JUDB, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320065)
+7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1525, JUDB, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320261)
+8. **SB187 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332056)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#960) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- REJECT (#912) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1235) — **101–0** (pass) · lower
+- ADOPT (#1039) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- SB 187 BY KLEINPETER (#306) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Caleb Kleinpeter — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-06-13** Effective date 8/1/2023.
+- **2023-06-13** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 332. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2023-06-08** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-06-08** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
+- **2023-06-08** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2023-06-08** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
+- **2023-06-08** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
+- **2023-06-08** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays.
+- **2023-06-08** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 101, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
+- **2023-06-08** Rules suspended.
+- **2023-06-08** Conference Committee report received.
+- **2023-06-07** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
+- **2023-06-07** Senate conference committee members appointed: Kleinpeter, Smith, and Tarver.
+- **2023-06-07** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
+- **2023-06-07** House conferees appointed: Jordan, Gaines, and DeVillier.
+- **2023-06-07** Notice of Senate rejecting House amendments.
+- **2023-06-06** Rules suspended. Amendments proposed by the House read and rejected by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
+- **2023-06-05** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
+- **2023-06-05** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2023-06-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/05/2023.
+- **2023-05-31** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2023-05-25** Reported favorably (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-05-16** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-05-15** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2023-05-15** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2023-05-10** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2023-05-09** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-10** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-31** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `filing, referral-committee`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/286f5389-b95a-4f7b-afe4-a7580e069d28`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+