---
type: "Bill"
title: "CHILDREN: Establishes the Council on the Children of Incarcerated Parents and Caregivers and repeals the termination of the Children's Cabinet (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "CHILDREN: Establishes the Council on the Children of Incarcerated Parents and Caregivers and repeals the termination of the Children's Cabinet (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 729"
citation: "Louisiana HB 729 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["C. Denise Marcelle"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-03-31"
last_action: "2020-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/47103a14-eff7-418b-b581-363274bae2a8"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238640"
source_hash: "9adadba8a2b65ce308e2b76642714235dd4cd5a0a8e5adab9965b374f8c0dd5f"
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 729 (2020) — CHILDREN: Establishes the Council on the Children of Incarcerated Parents and Caregivers and repeals the termination of the Children's Cabinet (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB729 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1166424)
2. **HB729 Act 284** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182361)
3. **HB729 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1171800)
4. **HB729 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1175423)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2074, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1173137)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #2382, Marcelle, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1174579)
7. **HB729 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177594)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#340) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#503) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- C. Denise Marcelle — primary (person)
- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
- Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
- Richard Nelson — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Tammy Phelps — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-11** Effective date: 06/11/2020.
- **2020-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 284. `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.
- **2020-05-28** 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** 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 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/20.
- **2020-05-20** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-18** Reported favorably (14-0).
- **2020-05-15** Read by title, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2020-05-13** Reported favorably (11-0. To be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2020-05-04** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-31** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/47103a14-eff7-418b-b581-363274bae2a8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).