---
type: "Bill"
title: "VITAL STATISTICS: Provides relative to disclosure of certain vital records to organ procurement organizations"
description: "VITAL STATISTICS: Provides relative to disclosure of certain vital records to organ procurement organizations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 577"
citation: "Louisiana HB 577 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Walt Leger, III"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-02"
last_action: "2018-05-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/933c7713-d345-4ed1-8f19-5a22bd2d8742"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=234047"
source_hash: "300a8e18bd9710715cffca5a2fbfeadf2ba49e0e7f97afa9f65c5bcdb2709e7a"
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 577 (2018) — VITAL STATISTICS: Provides relative to disclosure of certain vital records to organ procurement organizations

## Version chain

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

1. **HB577 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1072839)
2. **HB577 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1096991)
3. **HB577 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1077634)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1410, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1076532)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1550, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1077573)
6. **HB577 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1090392)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#187) — **90–0** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#538) — **35–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Walt Leger, III — primary (person)
- Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
- Charles R. "Bubba" Chaney — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- H. Bernard LeBas — cosponsor (person)
- Jerome "Dee" Richard — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Stokes — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-05-10** Effective date: 08/01/2018.
- **2018-05-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 98. `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 35 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.
- **2018-04-03** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-02** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2018-03-29** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2018-03-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/29/18.
- **2018-03-22** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-03-21** Reported with amendments (13-0).
- **2018-03-12** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-02** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/933c7713-d345-4ed1-8f19-5a22bd2d8742`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).