---
type: "Bill"
title: "CIVIL/LAW: Provides relative to supported decisionmaking agreements as a less restrictive means to interdiction"
description: "CIVIL/LAW: Provides relative to supported decisionmaking agreements as a less restrictive means to interdiction"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 361"
citation: "Louisiana HB 361 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Paula Davis"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-02-27"
last_action: "2020-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/518bc0bc-6b21-4e4e-9119-223879c9f1ea"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237987"
source_hash: "803a087594b36deadb6747e49a4c1d57e55ed704db5b648995dd2852dd6f6e18"
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 361 (2020) — CIVIL/LAW: Provides relative to supported decisionmaking agreements as a less restrictive means to interdiction

## Version chain

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

1. **HB361 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1161930)
2. **HB361 Act 258** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182333)
3. **HB361 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1173968)
4. **HB361 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1175489)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #2415, Davis, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1174868)
6. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1835, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1174786)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2025, JUDA, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176213)
8. **HB361 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1178579)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#480) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- HB 361 BY DAVIS (#346) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#680) — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Paula Davis — primary (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)
- Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
- Richard Nelson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2020.
- **2020-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 258. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 95, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2020-05-29** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/20.
- **2020-05-29** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2020-05-28** The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-27** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-25** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-22** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-21** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/20.
- **2020-05-21** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-20** Reported favorably (12-0-1).
- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-27** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/518bc0bc-6b21-4e4e-9119-223879c9f1ea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).