---
type: "Bill"
title: "CHILDREN: Provides relative to the state child ombudsman. (8/1/24)"
description: "CHILDREN: Provides relative to the state child ombudsman. (8/1/24)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 145"
citation: "Louisiana SB 145 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Regina Ashford Barrow"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 23
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-02-29"
last_action: "2024-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9826ee2d-5a15-463d-b31e-5010195a734e"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246160"
source_hash: "add17b7d00b25c871fe9dad0569693f0967f4a68b89c34432d00a31f7eda1a3e"
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 145 (2024) — CHILDREN: Provides relative to the state child ombudsman. (8/1/24)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB145 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1350843)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3889, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369928)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3966, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370514)
4. **House Floor Amendment, #4825, Hughes, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1376096)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #5044, Carver, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377626)
6. **House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #3773, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375602)
7. **SB145 Act 507** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382212)
8. **SB145 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356228)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1002, S&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356080)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1020, S&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356129)
11. **SB145 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378938)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#1318) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- CO-AUTHORS (#174) — **13–0** (fail) · upper
- CONCUR (#1191) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#173) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Regina Ashford Barrow — primary (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
- Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)
- John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson-Andrews — cosponsor (person)
- Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
- Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Hilferty — cosponsor (person)
- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-10** Effective date 8/1/2024.
- **2024-06-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 507. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-31** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-30** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-05-29** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-28** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2024-05-22** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-22** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-21** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/2024.
- **2024-05-21** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-20** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-05-15** Reported favorably (14-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-01** Read by title, amended, recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
- **2024-04-30** Reported with amendments (10-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-02** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-27** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-03-27** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-03-27** Called from the Calendar.
- **2024-03-26** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2024-03-25** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-03-20** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-29** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9826ee2d-5a15-463d-b31e-5010195a734e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).