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+type: "Bill"
+title: "CIVIL/LAW: Creates the Women's Safety and Protection Act (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
+description: "CIVIL/LAW: Creates the Women's Safety and Protection Act (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 608"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 608 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Roger Wilder III"]
+version_count: 10
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2024-03-01"
+last_action: "2024-06-03"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c26b95ef-03f0-4ee8-98e4-c251c589faff"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246414"
+source_hash: "e285115e2a84bf0b168dda53ea493908468197e54443c7af7cc5728a33d23104"
+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 608 (2024) — CIVIL/LAW: Creates the Women's Safety and Protection Act (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB608 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352172)
+2. **HB608 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381914)
+3. **HB608 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363440)
+4. **HB608 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364962)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #2395, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362444)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #2583, CL&P, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363358)
+7. **House Floor Amendment, #2854, Wilder, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364776)
+8. **House Floor Amendment, #2867, Landry, Mandie, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364864)
+9. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1808, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363871)
+10. **HB608 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375920)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#951) — **29–10** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#457) — **80–17** (pass) · lower
+- MODIFY TIME LIMITS (#456) — **30–57** (fail) · lower
+- CO-AUTHORS (#952) — **18–0** (fail) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Roger Wilder III — primary (person)
+- Adam Bass — cosponsor (person)
+- Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
+- Beau Beaullieu — cosponsor (person)
+- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
+- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
+- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
+- Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
+- Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
+- Brett Geymann — cosponsor (person)
+- Brian Glorioso — cosponsor (person)
+- Bryan Fontenot — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Caleb Kleinpeter — cosponsor (person)
+- Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
+- Chad Boyer — cosponsor (person)
+- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
+- Christopher Turner — cosponsor (person)
+- Danny McCormick — cosponsor (person)
+- Daryl Deshotel — cosponsor (person)
+- Debbie Villio — cosponsor (person)
+- Dennis Bamburg Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
+- Eddie Lambert — cosponsor (person)
+- Emily Chenevert — cosponsor (person)
+- Foy Gadberry — cosponsor (person)
+- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
+- Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)
+- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
+- Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
+- Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
+- Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
+- Jacob Landry — cosponsor (person)
+- Jason Dewitt — cosponsor (person)
+- Jay Galle — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeffery "Jeff" Wiley — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeremy Stine — cosponsor (person)
+- Jessica Domangue — cosponsor (person)
+- John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph Orgeron — cosponsor (person)
+- Josh Carlson — cosponsor (person)
+- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
+- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
+- Katrina Jackson-Andrews — cosponsor (person)
+- Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
+- Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
+- Kimberly Coates — cosponsor (person)
+- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
+- Lauren Ventrella — cosponsor (person)
+- Laurie Schlegel — cosponsor (person)
+- Les Farnum — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
+- Neil Riser — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick Connick — cosponsor (person)
+- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
+- Phillip Tarver — cosponsor (person)
+- Polly Thomas — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
+- Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
+- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
+- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert "Bob" Owen — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
+- Ryan Bourriaque — cosponsor (person)
+- Shane Mack — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
+- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Timothy P. Kerner — cosponsor (person)
+- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
+- Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (person)
+- Troy Hebert — cosponsor (person)
+- Valarie Hodges — cosponsor (person)
+- Vincent Cox III — cosponsor (person)
+- Vincent J. St. Blanc , III — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-06-03** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
+- **2024-06-03** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 436. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2024-05-24** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-05-20** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2024-05-20** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2024-05-20** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2024-05-16** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 29 yeas and 10 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2024-05-13** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2024-05-08** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2024-05-07** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-15** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2024-04-11** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 80, nays 17. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2024-04-09** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/11/2024.
+- **2024-04-09** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-04-08** Reported with amendments (10-0-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-01** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c26b95ef-03f0-4ee8-98e4-c251c589faff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+