---
type: "Bill"
title: "CORONERS: Authorizes the coroner to obtain blood, urine, or other biological fluids or samples relevant to an investigation. (8/1/18)"
description: "CORONERS: Authorizes the coroner to obtain blood, urine, or other biological fluids or samples relevant to an investigation. (8/1/18)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 81"
citation: "Louisiana SB 81 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dan Claitor"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-25"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/793c2dda-3683-4f11-83e2-e1fc3357102b"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233338"
source_hash: "a6046da8cb2c28d2b70309a7c585031d515375f2f6a73d6b822c3364f67e02ba"
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 81 (2018) — CORONERS: Authorizes the coroner to obtain blood, urine, or other biological fluids or samples relevant to an investigation. (8/1/18)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB81 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1067127)
2. **SB81 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1097954)
3. **SB81 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1078949)
4. **SB81 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1083359)
5. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1976, Claitor, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1082294)
6. **SB81 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1093800)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#279) — **33–0** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#778) — **93–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Dan Claitor — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-05-15** Effective date 8/1/2018.
- **2018-05-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 144. `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-09** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-08** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2018-05-08** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2018-05-07** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2018-05-07** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2018-04-27** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/07/18.
- **2018-04-23** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-04-19** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2018-04-18** Reported favorably (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2018-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-09** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2018-04-05** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2018-03-27** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2018-03-26** Reported favorably.
- **2018-03-20** Rules suspended. Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Judiciary C.
- **2018-03-12** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-25** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/793c2dda-3683-4f11-83e2-e1fc3357102b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).