---
type: "Bill"
title: "MALPRACTICE/MEDICAL: Provides relative to donors or prospective donors of an organ or tissue"
description: "MALPRACTICE/MEDICAL: Provides relative to donors or prospective donors of an organ or tissue"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 615"
citation: "Louisiana HB 615 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alan Seabaugh"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-28"
last_action: "2020-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b1813b7a-0b7b-4ecd-a083-cfba66205ec7"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238359"
source_hash: "25dcbef34fe2ab06a9b04c5957d4ddbad698560cde9d29a1c63574f6c47aa84e"
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 615 (2020) — MALPRACTICE/MEDICAL: Provides relative to donors or prospective donors of an organ or tissue

## Version chain

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

1. **HB615 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1163806)
2. **HB615 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1181934)
3. **HB615 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1173584)
4. **HB615 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1175545)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #2418, Seabaugh, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1174869)
6. **HB615 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177751)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#571) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- HB 615 BY SEABAUGH (#351) — **92–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Alan Seabaugh — primary (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. 201. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-02** 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.
- **2020-05-29** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 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** Rules suspended. 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 Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-22** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, 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`
- **2020-02-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b1813b7a-0b7b-4ecd-a083-cfba66205ec7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).