---
type: "Bill"
title: "CHILDREN/FAMILY SERVICES DEPT: Provides relative to youth in the foster care program. (gov sig) (EN +$1,575,758 GF EX See Note)"
description: "CHILDREN/FAMILY SERVICES DEPT: Provides relative to youth in the foster care program. (gov sig) (EN +$1,575,758 GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 109"
citation: "Louisiana SB 109 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Regina Ashford Barrow"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 34
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-03-27"
last_action: "2019-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/18dc8bd0-f2e2-4ce6-acc9-521ba60b858c"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236018"
source_hash: "31f2bbc81b16c64267144dbf4d638d803aa247a8196b44b2b5431a582445877d"
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 109 (2019) — CHILDREN/FAMILY SERVICES DEPT: Provides relative to youth in the foster care program. (gov sig) (EN +$1,575,758 GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB109 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1119881)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3369, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1138699)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3393, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1138932)
4. **SB109 Act 400** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144791)
5. **SB109 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127069)
6. **SB109 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1135796)
7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2089, Barrow, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1135328)
8. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2062, Martiny, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1135173)
9. **SB109 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143298)

## Votes

- REJECT (#924) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- CO-AUTHORS (#388) — **23–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR (#991) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#846) — **88–1** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#387) — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Regina Ashford Barrow — primary (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- Dale Erdey — cosponsor (person)
- Dan Claitor — cosponsor (person)
- Danny Martiny — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald Long — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory Tarver — cosponsor (person)
- J.P. Morrell — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
- John Alario — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Walsworth — cosponsor (person)
- Neil Riser — cosponsor (person)
- Norby Chabert — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)
- Ronnie Johns — cosponsor (person)
- Ryan Gatti — cosponsor (person)
- Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)
- Troy Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Walt Leger, III — cosponsor (person)
- Wesley Bishop — cosponsor (person)
- Yvonne Colomb — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-19** Effective date 6/19/2019.
- **2019-06-19** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 400. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-06** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-06** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-06** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-05** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2019-06-05** Reconsidered.
- **2019-06-05** Rules suspended.
- **2019-06-05** Notice the House discharged the Conference Committee.
- **2019-06-05** Discharged from Conference Committee.
- **2019-06-05** Notice the Senate discharged the Conference Committee.
- **2019-06-05** Senate Conference Committee members discharged.
- **2019-06-05** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2019-06-05** House conferees appointed: Marcelle, Hoffmann, and Jackson.
- **2019-06-04** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2019-06-04** Senate conference committee members appointed: Mills, Peterson, and Barrow.
- **2019-06-04** Rules suspended. Amendments proposed by the House read and rejected by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2019-06-03** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2019-06-03** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 88, nays 1. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-06-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/03/19.
- **2019-06-02** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-06-02** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2019-06-02** Reported favorably (20-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-30** Read by title, amended, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2019-05-29** Reported with amendments (12-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2019-05-22** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-21** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2019-05-20** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-16** Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-15** Reported favorably.
- **2019-04-25** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2019-04-24** Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
- **2019-04-08** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/18dc8bd0-f2e2-4ce6-acc9-521ba60b858c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).