---
type: "Bill"
title: "CHILDREN/ABUSE: Provides relative to mandatory reporters of child abuse"
description: "CHILDREN/ABUSE: Provides relative to mandatory reporters of child abuse"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 335"
citation: "Louisiana HB 335 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kim Carver"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-02-29"
last_action: "2024-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f5138d79-afc0-4e4d-bd53-89d843b34bf4"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246018"
source_hash: "d9c4438bf36d1175bd71f2766ce50dafb62605c2e7f713f6f589e771473bf884"
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 335 (2024) — CHILDREN/ABUSE: Provides relative to mandatory reporters of child abuse

## Version chain

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

1. **HB335 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1349898)
2. **HB335 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379537)
3. **HB335 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362040)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1703, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1357389)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2278, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361950)
6. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3016, McMath, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371623)
7. **Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2725, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370180)
8. **HB335 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1373373)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#344) — **102–0** (pass) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 3016 BY MCMATH, FINAL PASSAGE (#580) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#906) — **92–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kim Carver — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
- Brian Glorioso — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Emily Chenevert — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Jacob Braud — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Dewitt — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
- Josh Carlson — cosponsor (person)
- Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
- Paula Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Hilferty — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent Cox III — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-23** Effective date: 05/23/2024.
- **2024-05-23** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 216. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-14** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-13** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-13** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-08** Read by title, roll called, yeas 92, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-05-07** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/08/2024.
- **2024-05-07** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-07** 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`
- **2024-04-30** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-29** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-04-24** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-15** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-09** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-09** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-08** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/09/2024.
- **2024-04-04** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-03** Reported with amendments (15-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-29** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f5138d79-afc0-4e4d-bd53-89d843b34bf4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).