---
type: "Bill"
title: "CHILDREN: Provides relative to protections for foster children. (gov sig)"
description: "CHILDREN: Provides relative to protections for foster children. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 40"
citation: "Louisiana SB 40 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patrick McMath"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-02-18"
last_action: "2022-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ff47e7f2-94e2-48b1-bae7-09428f141efc"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241628"
source_hash: "0d2598f01436394af1cf8c0d08edcfeb33801feceb7194ff43f9a3fc1f5d27ad"
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 40 (2022) — CHILDREN: Provides relative to protections for foster children. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB40 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1248430)
2. **SB40 Act 120** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1285131)
3. **SB40 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1267230)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1286, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1264681)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1462, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1267050)
6. **SB40 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1280115)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#905) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#193) — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Patrick McMath — primary (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-25** Effective date 5/25/2022.
- **2022-05-25** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 120. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-23** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/20/2022. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-19** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-18** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-17** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2022-05-17** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-05-12** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/17/2022.
- **2022-05-09** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-05-05** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2022-05-04** Reported favorably (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-11** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2022-04-11** Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-04-07** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-04-06** Reported with amendments.
- **2022-03-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-18** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ff47e7f2-94e2-48b1-bae7-09428f141efc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).