---
type: "Bill"
title: "CHILDREN'S CODE: Provides relative to continuous revision of the Children's Code. (8/1/21)"
description: "CHILDREN'S CODE: Provides relative to continuous revision of the Children's Code. (8/1/21)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 9"
citation: "Louisiana SB 9 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ed Price"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-02-19"
last_action: "2021-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/18a5aa82-3ea6-49f4-be0e-18cb1f530174"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239788"
source_hash: "9507b9923a51c820ca7483c0a65d6ac5ed45a37ff89ebd94bb2d3481bab90609"
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 SB 9 (2021) — CHILDREN'S CODE: Provides relative to continuous revision of the Children's Code. (8/1/21)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB9 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1200156)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #2515, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222335)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #2685, CL&P, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1223452)
4. **SB9 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235077)
5. **SB9 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1213697)
6. **SB9 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215176)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #488, JUDA, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1213464)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #508, JUDA, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1213601)
9. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #718, Price, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215106)
10. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #539, Mills, Fred, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1213794)
11. **SB9 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230487)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#34) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#727) — **101–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#621) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ed Price — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-11** Effective date 8/1/2021.
- **2021-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 158. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-06** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/4/2021. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-03** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-03** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-01** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2021-05-27** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2021-05-26** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/26/2021.
- **2021-05-17** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-13** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2021-05-12** Reported with amendments (13-0-1). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-04-21** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-20** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2021-04-19** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-04-14** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-04-13** Reported with amendments.
- **2021-04-12** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-19** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/18a5aa82-3ea6-49f4-be0e-18cb1f530174`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).