---
type: "Bill"
title: "SUNSET LAW: Re-creates the Department of Children and Family Services"
description: "SUNSET LAW: Re-creates the Department of Children and Family Services"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 109"
citation: "Louisiana HB 109 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Frank Hoffmann"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-22"
last_action: "2018-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/58750a1c-411c-48df-869c-9c5bf20c0c3a"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233301"
source_hash: "d87ba2279be35dfd86eea483e371058b9b7e1562d1038675f0485cda59de6036"
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 109 (2018) — SUNSET LAW: Re-creates the Department of Children and Family Services

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB109 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1066154)
2. **HB109 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1092507)
3. **HB109 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1074812)
4. **HB109 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1090401)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#525) — **34–0** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#51) — **90–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Frank Hoffmann — primary (person)
- Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
- Charles R. "Bubba" Chaney — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Jean-Paul Coussan — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Stokes — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-05-01** Effective date: 06/30/2018.
- **2018-05-01** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 6. `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-01** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-04-30** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2018-04-26** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2018-04-26** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2018-04-25** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2018-04-23** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2018-04-19** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2018-04-18** Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
- **2018-03-21** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-20** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2018-03-20** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2018-03-15** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/20/18.
- **2018-03-15** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-03-14** Reported favorably (10-0).
- **2018-03-12** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-23** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/23/2018.
- **2018-02-22** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-22** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/58750a1c-411c-48df-869c-9c5bf20c0c3a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).