---
type: "Bill"
title: "FUNERALS & FUNERAL HOMES: Provides relative to funeral directors and embalmers"
description: "FUNERALS & FUNERAL HOMES: Provides relative to funeral directors and embalmers"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 827"
citation: "Louisiana HB 827 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Neil Riser"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-03-31"
last_action: "2020-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/00f99d26-0a8c-48cb-aa61-6b1802f0b863"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238791"
source_hash: "23ffc5ca9af644c7f8238ebdf5160263328ab3c32ff80b925c314dc4ea010b24"
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 827 (2020) — FUNERALS & FUNERAL HOMES: Provides relative to funeral directors and embalmers

## Version chain

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

1. **HB827 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1168140)
2. **HB827 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182518)
3. **HB827 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1171262)
4. **HB827 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1174765)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1677, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170849)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1753, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1171016)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2361, Riser, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1174475)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #2389, Riser, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1174635)
9. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1352, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1171678)
10. **HB827 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177783)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#578) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- HB 827 BY RISER (#229) — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Neil Riser — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-12** Effective date: 06/12/2020.
- **2020-06-12** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 329. `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** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-21** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-20** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2020-05-20** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/20/20.
- **2020-05-15** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-13** Reported with amendments (14-0).
- **2020-05-04** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `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/00f99d26-0a8c-48cb-aa61-6b1802f0b863`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).