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+type: "Bill"
+title: "CHILDREN: Creates the Louisiana Pregnancy and Baby Care Initiative. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE FF EX See Note)"
+description: "CHILDREN: Creates the Louisiana Pregnancy and Baby Care Initiative. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE FF EX See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "SB 278"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 278 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Katrina Jackson-Andrews"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2024-03-01"
+last_action: "2024-05-28"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/06477ad4-e2c1-4406-a578-ad5676233df8"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246545"
+source_hash: "44b4e841cb62f2c583e1b81b68a648f132c93bc0dcc3925a6d5159b17b433651"
+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 278 (2024) — CHILDREN: Creates the Louisiana Pregnancy and Baby Care Initiative. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE FF EX See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB278 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352597)
+2. **SB278 Act 329** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380802)
+3. **SB278 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356240)
+4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1005, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356091)
+5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1011, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356100)
+6. **SB278 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377738)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#1285) — **97–1** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#156) — **34–3** (pass) · upper
+- CO-AUTHORS (#157) — **11–0** (fail) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Katrina Jackson-Andrews — primary (person)
+- Adam Bass — cosponsor (person)
+- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
+- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
+- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
+- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
+- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
+- Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
+- Brian Glorioso — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Caleb Kleinpeter — cosponsor (person)
+- Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
+- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
+- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
+- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
+- Emily Chenevert — cosponsor (person)
+- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
+- Gregory A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
+- Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
+- Jason Dewitt — cosponsor (person)
+- Jerome Zeringue — cosponsor (person)
+- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
+- John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
+- Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
+- Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
+- Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
+- Kimberly Coates — cosponsor (person)
+- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
+- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
+- Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
+- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
+- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
+- Shane Mack — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie Hilferty — cosponsor (person)
+- Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
+- Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (person)
+- Troy Hebert — cosponsor (person)
+- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
+- Vincent Cox III — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-05-28** Effective date 5/28/2024.
+- **2024-05-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 329. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2024-05-28** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/23/2024. `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-05-23** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2024-05-23** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
+- **2024-05-22** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2024-05-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 1. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2024-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/2024.
+- **2024-05-15** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-05-14** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2024-05-13** Reported favorably (17-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-05-01** Read by title, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
+- **2024-04-30** Reported favorably (9-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-02** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-27** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2024-03-26** Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 3 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2024-03-25** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2024-03-20** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-11** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-01** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `filing, referral-committee`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/06477ad4-e2c1-4406-a578-ad5676233df8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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