---
type: "Bill"
title: "PATERNITY: Provides relative to pregnancy-related medical expense obligations"
description: "PATERNITY: Provides relative to pregnancy-related medical expense obligations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 5"
citation: "Louisiana HB 5 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Larry Frieman"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 22
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-01-12"
last_action: "2023-06-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/925b3980-6d2e-4b60-a5d8-e49c044b9c50"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=243810"
source_hash: "0d4d9837bbf64dc70a0fdeb262be2c8a4d80b508c0d53455818d724754e54ba4"
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 5 (2023) — PATERNITY: Provides relative to pregnancy-related medical expense obligations

## Version chain

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

1. **HB5 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1297891)
2. **HB5 Act 439** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1333438)
3. **HB5 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313539)
4. **HB5 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315279)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1337, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1312975)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1412, CL&P, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313492)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #1633, Frieman, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314692)
8. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #706, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313857)
9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2121, Cloud, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325180)
10. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2805, Cathey, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329419)
11. **HB5 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1330769)

## Votes

- ADD CO-AUTHORS (#65) — **16–0** (fail) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1044) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#728) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#64) — **101–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Larry Frieman — primary (person)
- Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
- Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
- Polly Thomas — cosponsor (person)
- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
- Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
- Sherman Q. Mack — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Hilferty — cosponsor (person)
- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-28** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 439. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-08** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-07** 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.
- **2023-06-05** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/06/2023.
- **2023-06-05** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-04** 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`
- **2023-05-18** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-17** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-16** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-26** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-25** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-04-24** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-04-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/24/2023.
- **2023-04-20** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-19** Reported with amendments (13-0-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/3/2023.
- **2023-01-12** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-12** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/925b3980-6d2e-4b60-a5d8-e49c044b9c50`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).