---
type: "Bill"
title: "CHILDREN/SUPPORT: Provides relative to contempt proceedings when the Department of Children and Family Services is providing support enforcement services"
description: "CHILDREN/SUPPORT: Provides relative to contempt proceedings when the Department of Children and Family Services is providing support enforcement services"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 438"
citation: "Louisiana HB 438 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Christopher Turner"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-27"
last_action: "2020-06-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0db86264-6511-42c5-a48e-83cebe460b47"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238150"
source_hash: "53b4cd29d2c47a07bfd8c8841d18726016e722267dd9343e99625febc81d11d8"
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 438 (2020) — CHILDREN/SUPPORT: Provides relative to contempt proceedings when the Department of Children and Family Services is providing support enforcement services

## Version chain

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

1. **HB438 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1162682)
2. **HB438 Act 149** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1181458)
3. **HB438 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172486)
4. **HB438 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1175394)
5. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1534, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172748)
6. **HB438 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177318)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#489) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#319) — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Christopher Turner — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-09** Effective date: 08/01/2020.
- **2020-06-09** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 149. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-29** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2020-05-28** 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 favorably. Rules suspended. 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 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/20.
- **2020-05-18** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-15** 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/0db86264-6511-42c5-a48e-83cebe460b47`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).