---
type: "Bill"
title: "DOMESTIC ABUSE: Provides relative to protective orders"
description: "DOMESTIC ABUSE: Provides relative to protective orders"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 376"
citation: "Louisiana HB 376 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Delisha Boyd"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-30"
last_action: "2023-06-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3be0b941-4d78-4e03-92d3-fccd94b59981"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244299"
source_hash: "fd9ed463bcf13d3547900721688c00f4227d8dceca15c1bfa2458fdc38c3b9b1"
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 376 (2023) — DOMESTIC ABUSE: Provides relative to protective orders

## Version chain

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

1. **HB376 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1308444)
2. **HB376 Act 309** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332462)
3. **HB376 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318701)
4. **HB376 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322590)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2178, JUD, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318013)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2297, JUD, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318687)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2958, Boyd, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322257)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2377, JUDC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326698)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2427, JUDC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326987)
10. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2629, Mizell, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328334)
11. **HB376 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1330980)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1030) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#426) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#621) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Delisha Boyd — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- Caleb Kleinpeter — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Mandie Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person)
- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-13** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2023-06-13** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 309. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-06** Read by title, roll called, yeas 98, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2023-06-04** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/06/2023.
- **2023-06-04** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-02** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-31** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-30** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-18** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-17** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-16** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/16/2023.
- **2023-05-04** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-03** Reported with amendments (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-30** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-30** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3be0b941-4d78-4e03-92d3-fccd94b59981`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).