---
type: "Bill"
title: "ABORTION: Provides relative to laws concerning abortion based on genetic abnormality"
description: "ABORTION: Provides relative to laws concerning abortion based on genetic abnormality"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 287"
citation: "Louisiana HB 287 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rick Edmonds"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-28"
last_action: "2018-05-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/16205cce-4040-406d-885b-9d8eefd78ae7"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233602"
source_hash: "3bed605977d5556930d6dcb503667a2ccf2cb3240c43e58bea7f622f9b670e62"
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 287 (2018) — ABORTION: Provides relative to laws concerning abortion based on genetic abnormality

## Version chain

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

1. **HB287 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1070145)
2. **HB287 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1096959)
3. **HB287 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1082818)
4. **HB287 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1093066)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#714) — **31–1** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#360) — **96–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Rick Edmonds — primary (person)
- Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
- Charles R. "Bubba" Chaney — cosponsor (person)
- Frank Hoffmann — cosponsor (person)
- H. Bernard LeBas — cosponsor (person)
- J. Rogers Pope — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Stokes — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Johnson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-05-10** Effective date: 05/10/2018.
- **2018-05-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 77. `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-08** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-07** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2018-05-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2018-05-03** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2018-05-03** Read by title, passed by a vote of 31 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2018-04-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2018-04-26** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2018-04-25** Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
- **2018-04-12** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-11** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2018-04-10** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2018-04-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/10/18.
- **2018-04-05** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-04-04** Reported favorably (9-0).
- **2018-03-12** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/16205cce-4040-406d-885b-9d8eefd78ae7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).