---
type: "Bill"
title: "CHILDREN/SUPPORT: Provides relative to the role of the Department of Children and Family Services as an indispensable party in certain domestic matters"
description: "CHILDREN/SUPPORT: Provides relative to the role of the Department of Children and Family Services as an indispensable party in certain domestic matters"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 125"
citation: "Louisiana HB 125 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mike Johnson"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-03-15"
last_action: "2021-06-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b6cc7433-f2ba-4a4a-9bc2-9296c2c539f2"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239927"
source_hash: "86966aa1d3c4e4e27d1478c4c19fb3a9a4325d10248d9fde5a0d81bcfd8479f4"
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 125 (2021) — CHILDREN/SUPPORT: Provides relative to the role of the Department of Children and Family Services as an indispensable party in certain domestic matters

## Version chain

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

1. **HB125 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1204051)
2. **HB125 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230362)
3. **HB125 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1213568)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1502, JUDA, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220220)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1548, JUDA, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220411)
6. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1926, Luneau, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1223281)
7. **HB125 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1225644)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#323) — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#468) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#10) — **91–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mike Johnson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-01** Effective date: 01/01/2022.
- **2021-06-01** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 11. `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-26** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-05-20** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-05-19** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-05-17** Read by title, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2021-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/17/2021.
- **2021-05-11** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2021-05-11** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-06** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-05** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-04** Reported with amendments.
- **2021-04-20** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-19** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-04-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-14** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/15/2021.
- **2021-04-14** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-13** Reported favorably (13-0-1).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-19** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/19/2021.
- **2021-03-15** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-15** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b6cc7433-f2ba-4a4a-9bc2-9296c2c539f2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).