---
type: "Bill"
title: "CHILDREN'S CODE: Provides for cotutorship of child in that either parent acting alone can act on behalf of the child. (gov sig)"
description: "CHILDREN'S CODE: Provides for cotutorship of child in that either parent acting alone can act on behalf of the child. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 102"
citation: "Louisiana SB 102 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Franklin J. Foil"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-02-28"
last_action: "2022-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c3d9d416-b4a2-431a-a7ba-391ba81fd222"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241897"
source_hash: "4bc0fb2d706be9077ffcbde3cf2225b4b1867e2621cee86564079398047eea7e"
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 102 (2022) — CHILDREN'S CODE: Provides for cotutorship of child in that either parent acting alone can act on behalf of the child. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB102 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1252687)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3373, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1273904)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3541, CL&P, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1274844)
4. **SB102 Act 121** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1285132)
5. **SB102 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261348)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #614, JUDA, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1258846)
7. **SB102 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1279433)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#794) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#590) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#65) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Franklin J. Foil — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-25** Effective date 5/5/2022.
- **2022-05-25** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 121. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-19** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-18** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-17** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-16** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2022-05-11** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2022-05-11** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-05-05** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/11/2022.
- **2022-05-04** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-05-03** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2022-05-02** Reported with amendments (10-0-1). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-03-29** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-28** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2022-03-28** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-03-23** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-03-22** Reported with amendments.
- **2022-03-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-28** 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/c3d9d416-b4a2-431a-a7ba-391ba81fd222`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).