---
type: "Bill"
title: "CHILDREN/WELFARE SVCS: Provides relative to reporting of child abuse and neglect in military families"
description: "CHILDREN/WELFARE SVCS: Provides relative to reporting of child abuse and neglect in military families"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 768"
citation: "Louisiana HB 768 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Frank Hoffmann"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-04-02"
last_action: "2018-05-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c2e40515-7224-4e76-b834-5151dc5cdf26"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=234597"
source_hash: "53aa869e28c6cca4a7d893a9d6c924f10e57da2c1d44eb9c710943498ff9dda4"
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 768 (2018) — CHILDREN/WELFARE SVCS: Provides relative to reporting of child abuse and neglect in military families

## Version chain

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

1. **HB768 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1081352)
2. **HB768 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1096998)
3. **HB768 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1085401)
4. **HB768 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1088175)
5. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2554, Pierre, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1085763)
6. **HB768 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1093091)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#493) — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#726) — **30–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Frank Hoffmann — primary (person)
- Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
- Charles R. "Bubba" Chaney — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- H. Bernard LeBas — cosponsor (person)
- J. Rogers Pope — cosponsor (person)
- Jerome "Dee" Richard — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Stokes — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — 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. 104. `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-08** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-07** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2018-05-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2018-05-03** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2018-05-03** Read by title, passed by a vote of 30 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2018-04-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2018-04-26** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2018-04-25** Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
- **2018-04-23** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-19** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2018-04-18** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2018-04-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/18/18.
- **2018-04-12** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-04-11** Reported favorably (13-0).
- **2018-04-03** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-02** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c2e40515-7224-4e76-b834-5151dc5cdf26`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).