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+type: "Bill"
+title: "CHILDREN/DCFS: Reorganizes the Department of Children and Family Services (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
+description: "CHILDREN/DCFS: Reorganizes the Department of Children and Family Services (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 617"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 617 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Kim Carver"]
+version_count: 11
+action_count: 28
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2025-04-04"
+last_action: "2025-06-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a6d76c76-7f6c-4de9-a55e-30c9753258ed"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248697"
+source_hash: "aa8f268ce95a0be39cae15e83e98e95a1b49b3fb3a94ecb30a3466f7a7b6db3b"
+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 617 (2025) — CHILDREN/DCFS: Reorganizes the Department of Children and Family Services (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB617 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1404595)
+2. **HB617 Act 477** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1427663)
+3. **HB617 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408077)
+4. **HB617 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417205)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #1364, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406580)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #1591, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408045)
+7. **House Floor Amendment, #1815, Carver, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409199)
+8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2815, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421463)
+9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2872, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421742)
+10. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3038, McMath, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422476)
+11. **HB617 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424560)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#538) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#809) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1146) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+- CO-AUTHORS (#810) — **13–0** (fail) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Kim Carver — primary (person)
+- Adam Bass — cosponsor (person)
+- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
+- Annie Spell — cosponsor (person)
+- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
+- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
+- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
+- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
+- Brach Myers — cosponsor (person)
+- Brian Glorioso — cosponsor (person)
+- Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
+- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
+- Chad Boyer — cosponsor (person)
+- Chance Henry — cosponsor (person)
+- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
+- Dennis Bamburg Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Dixon McMakin — cosponsor (person)
+- Emily Chenevert — cosponsor (person)
+- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
+- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
+- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
+- Gregory A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
+- Jacob Braud — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeremy LaCombe — cosponsor (person)
+- Jessica Domangue — cosponsor (person)
+- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
+- John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
+- Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
+- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
+- Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
+- Kimberly Coates — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
+- Laurie Schlegel — cosponsor (person)
+- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark Wright — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael Melerine — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
+- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick Connick — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
+- Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
+- Roger Wilder III — 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)
+- Timothy P. Kerner — cosponsor (person)
+- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
+- Troy Hebert — cosponsor (person)
+- Vincent Cox III — cosponsor (person)
+- William "Bill" Wheat , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-06-20** Effective date: See Act.
+- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 477. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2025-06-12** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-12** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2025-06-12** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2025-06-10** Read by title, roll called, yeas 98, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
+- **2025-06-09** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/10/2025.
+- **2025-06-09** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
+- **2025-06-09** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2025-06-09** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
+- **2025-06-08** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
+- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended.
+- **2025-06-04** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-04** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-28** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-27** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2025-05-21** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2025-05-21** Called from the calendar.
+- **2025-05-21** Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
+- **2025-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/2025.
+- **2025-05-20** Notice given.
+- **2025-04-29** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
+- **2025-04-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/29/2025.
+- **2025-04-24** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-23** Reported with amendments (13-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-04** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-04** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a6d76c76-7f6c-4de9-a55e-30c9753258ed`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+