---
type: "Bill"
title: "MARRIAGE: Provides for parental consent and judicial limitations and authorization for a minimum age for marriage. (8/1/19)"
description: "MARRIAGE: Provides for parental consent and judicial limitations and authorization for a minimum age for marriage. (8/1/19)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 172"
citation: "Louisiana SB 172 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Yvonne Colomb"]
version_count: 16
action_count: 31
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2019-03-27"
last_action: "2019-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5db11d99-34bd-4b0c-b74f-7c3fc115b1e0"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236219"
source_hash: "587e6f40c064e42f6fd774f91ca54314c84454ee473b3110c476d732d202e101"
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 172 (2019) — MARRIAGE: Provides for parental consent and judicial limitations and authorization for a minimum age for marriage. (8/1/19)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB172 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1121485)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #3451, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143110)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3284, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1137637)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #3312, CL&P, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1138265)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #3540, Hilferty, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1140344)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #3600, Ivey, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141361)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #3602, Amedee, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141290)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #3619, Jackson, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141365)
9. **House Floor Amendment, #3623, Amedee, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141383)
10. **House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2697, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1138624)
11. **SB172 Act 401** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144793)
12. **SB172 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1133871)
13. **SB172 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1135809)
14. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2142, Luneau, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1135628)
15. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1936, Martiny, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1134178)
16. **SB172 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143626)

## Votes

- AMENDMENT # 3600 BY IVEY, END CONSIDERATION OF AMENDMENTS (#836) — **24–69** (fail) · lower
- ADOPT (#1037) — **35–2** (pass) · upper
- REJECT (#930) — **28–10** (pass) · upper
- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1053) — **61–36** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#839) — **67–28** (pass) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 3540 BY HILFERTY, MOTION TO ADOPT (#835) — **63–31** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#392) — **22–15** (pass) · upper
- AMENDMENT # 3623 BY AMEDEE, MOTION TO ADOPT (#838) — **53–40** (pass) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 3600 BY IVEY, MOTION TO ADOPT (#837) — **22–73** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Yvonne Colomb — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-19** Effective date 8/1/2019.
- **2019-06-19** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 401. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-06** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/7/2019. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-06** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate on 6/7/2019.
- **2019-06-06** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-06** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2019-06-06** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2019-06-06** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 35 yeas and 2 nays.
- **2019-06-06** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 61, nays 36. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2019-06-06** Rules suspended.
- **2019-06-06** Conference Committee report received.
- **2019-06-06** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2019-06-06** House conferees appointed: Smith, Garofalo, and Nancy Landry.
- **2019-06-04** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2019-06-04** Senate conference committee members appointed: Colomb, Ward, and Luneau.
- **2019-06-04** Rules suspended. Amendments proposed by the House read and rejected by a vote of 28 yeas and 10 nays.
- **2019-06-03** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2019-06-02** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 67, nays 28. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-06-02** Called from the calendar.
- **2019-06-02** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2019-05-30** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/02/19.
- **2019-05-30** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-29** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2019-05-28** Reported with amendments (5-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-22** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `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 22 yeas and 15 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-15** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-14** Reported favorably.
- **2019-04-08** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5db11d99-34bd-4b0c-b74f-7c3fc115b1e0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).