---
type: "Bill"
title: "VITAL RECORDS/BIRTH CERT: Provides relative to the issuance of a death certificate in certain circumstances"
description: "VITAL RECORDS/BIRTH CERT: Provides relative to the issuance of a death certificate in certain circumstances"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 89"
citation: "Louisiana HB 89 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joseph Orgeron"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-20"
last_action: "2025-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2acf91d2-6e63-4e45-846a-1ff176596365"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247986"
source_hash: "169cde82c24b884d98697584a78c86a4785801580d8d5349d22d3389dbe94964"
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 89 (2025) — VITAL RECORDS/BIRTH CERT: Provides relative to the issuance of a death certificate in certain circumstances

## Version chain

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

1. **HB89 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1397562)
2. **HB89 Act 55** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422260)
3. **HB89 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405875)
4. **HB89 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418542)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#380) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#20) — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Joseph Orgeron — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-04** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 55. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-05-29** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-05-28** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-05-27** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-05-27** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-19** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-14** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-29** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-28** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-04-24** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-04-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/24/2025.
- **2025-04-22** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-16** Reported favorably (14-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-21** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/21/2025.
- **2025-03-20** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2acf91d2-6e63-4e45-846a-1ff176596365`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).