---
type: "Bill"
title: "TAX CREDITS: Establishes an income tax credit following the delivery of a stillborn child (EN -$726,000 GF RV See Note)"
description: "TAX CREDITS: Establishes an income tax credit following the delivery of a stillborn child (EN -$726,000 GF RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 146"
citation: "Louisiana HB 146 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stephanie Hilferty"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-03-18"
last_action: "2021-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ad69f232-774a-4404-8459-ba3c8664a65b"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239954"
source_hash: "517b440f5725e503af18778795916956cc8a0db126c58e760312f22aa980884e"
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 146 (2021) — TAX CREDITS: Establishes an income tax credit following the delivery of a stillborn child (EN -$726,000 GF RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB146 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1204934)
2. **HB146 Act 467** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1236378)
3. **HB146 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217164)
4. **HB146 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232635)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#176) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- CO-AUTHORS (#887) — **8–0** (fail) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#886) — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Stephanie Hilferty — primary (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)
- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Karen Carter Peterson — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Les Farnum — cosponsor (person)
- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Wright — cosponsor (person)
- Neil Riser — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Wayne McMahen — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-29** Effective date: 01/01/2022.
- **2021-06-29** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 467. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-07** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-06-07** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-06-03** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-06-02** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-05** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-04** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-03** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-03** Called from the calendar.
- **2021-04-29** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/03/2021.
- **2021-04-29** Notice given.
- **2021-04-29** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2021-04-27** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/29/2021.
- **2021-04-27** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-26** Reported favorably (16-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-19** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/19/2021.
- **2021-03-18** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-18** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ad69f232-774a-4404-8459-ba3c8664a65b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).