---
type: "Bill"
title: "CHILDREN/CARE: Provides relative to criminal convictions which disqualify a person from becoming a foster or adoptive parent or relative guardian of a child"
description: "CHILDREN/CARE: Provides relative to criminal convictions which disqualify a person from becoming a foster or adoptive parent or relative guardian of a child"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 112"
citation: "Louisiana HB 112 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John Stefanski"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-21"
last_action: "2019-05-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/daf011c0-aa76-407c-bc36-256752abc4ff"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235774"
source_hash: "cd160b15a22af172b82ccf8703fcfdeae7d5295c1cb0317c6f0223753d06531a"
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 112 (2019) — CHILDREN/CARE: Provides relative to criminal convictions which disqualify a person from becoming a foster or adoptive parent or relative guardian of a child

## Version chain

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

1. **HB112 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1116878)
2. **HB112 Act 33** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141832)
3. **HB112 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127378)
4. **HB112 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1136628)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#435) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#161) — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- John Stefanski — primary (person)
- Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
- Dale Erdey — cosponsor (person)
- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-30** Effective date: 08/01/19.
- **2019-05-30** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 33. `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-28** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-23** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-22** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-21** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-05-21** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-16** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-15** Reported favorably.
- **2019-05-07** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-06** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-06** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/06/19.
- **2019-04-29** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-04-25** Reported favorably (11-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-22** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/22/2019.
- **2019-03-21** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-21** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/daf011c0-aa76-407c-bc36-256752abc4ff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).