---
type: "Bill"
title: "CHILDREN: Provides for the Adoption Awareness Act. (8/1/24) (EN +$334,379 FF EX See Note)"
description: "CHILDREN: Provides for the Adoption Awareness Act. (8/1/24) (EN +$334,379 FF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 312"
citation: "Louisiana SB 312 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rick Edmonds"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a566ec26-86c2-4d4b-b7c8-5318a212a51a"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246593"
source_hash: "91c4a3152cf2ec6ea479fca42907d263c2085802e6ffa8b20215f56c8ce1c1ff"
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 312 (2024) — CHILDREN: Provides for the Adoption Awareness Act. (8/1/24) (EN +$334,379 FF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB312 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352702)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #4544, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1373825)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #4602, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374336)
4. **SB312 Act 515** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382220)
5. **SB312 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1368997)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1798, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363857)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2042, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366192)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2426, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1368586)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2465, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1368772)
10. **SB312 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379081)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#517) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1304) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#1197) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Rick Edmonds — primary (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Emily Chenevert — cosponsor (person)
- Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
- Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-10** Effective date 1/1/2025.
- **2024-06-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 515. `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, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/2024.
- **2024-05-20** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-15** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-05-14** Reported with amendments (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-07** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-05-06** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-01** Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-01** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
- **2024-04-29** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted; ordered engrossed and recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2024-04-24** 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 Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** 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/a566ec26-86c2-4d4b-b7c8-5318a212a51a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).