---
type: "Bill"
title: "CHILDREN: Provides relative to child welfare. (See Act) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
description: "CHILDREN: Provides relative to child welfare. (See Act) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 41"
citation: "Louisiana SB 41 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Regina Ashford Barrow"]
version_count: 18
action_count: 22
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-03-31"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9183f2ef-76ef-4f94-972e-e29a08c07a5a"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248096"
source_hash: "53f6657c9701714fd698aa82e4bcdbf8c15da24480e127844bc8dbb2531e3249"
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 41 (2025) — CHILDREN: Provides relative to child welfare. (See Act) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB41 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1400332)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3900, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420405)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3926, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420611)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #3972, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420986)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #4183, Carver, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422602)
6. **SB41 Act 409** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425939)
7. **SB41 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407859)
8. **SB41 Re-Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415142)
9. **SB41 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413841)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1268, FNCE, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411432)
11. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1528, FNCE, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413362)
12. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1544, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413403)
13. **Senate Committee Amendment, #428, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1404830)
14. **Senate Committee Amendment, #700, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406974)
15. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1703, Barrow, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414550)
16. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1637, Miller, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414072)
17. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #888, Miller, G., Proposed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408490)
18. **SB41 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424159)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#950) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#882) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#252) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- CO-AUTHORS (#253) — **12–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Regina Ashford Barrow — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Annie Spell — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
- Eddie Lambert — cosponsor (person)
- Emily Chenevert — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
- Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
- Jeremy Stine — cosponsor (person)
- Jessica Domangue — cosponsor (person)
- John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
- Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson-Andrews — cosponsor (person)
- Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
- Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Connick — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Shaun Mena — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Hilferty — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Tammy Phelps — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
- Valarie Hodges — cosponsor (person)
- Wayne McMahen — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-20** Effective date 8/1/2025.
- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 409. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-11** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-11** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2025-06-11** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-10** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2025-06-08** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-08** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-06-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/08/2025.
- **2025-06-04** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-04** Discharged from the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2025-06-04** Read by title, amended, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2025-06-03** Reported with amendments (14-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-20** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-19** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2025-05-14** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays; ordered re-reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-13** Read by title; Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered reengrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2025-05-12** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-28** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted; ordered engrossed and recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2025-04-23** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** 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/9183f2ef-76ef-4f94-972e-e29a08c07a5a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).