---
type: "Bill"
title: "CHILDREN: Provides relative to the definition of a child"
description: "CHILDREN: Provides relative to the definition of a child"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 64"
citation: "Louisiana HB 64 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mandie Landry"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-02-10"
last_action: "2022-05-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eb61e142-f066-40b8-ac8b-5a5c0f742033"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241581"
source_hash: "245b8545d30b7a12e7fe5d06e6f35d750b67a936e723f9b4947d4697a153237e"
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 64 (2022) — CHILDREN: Provides relative to the definition of a child

## Version chain

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

1. **HB64 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1247068)
2. **HB64 Act 202** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1286764)
3. **HB64 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1259999)
4. **HB64 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1282990)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#47) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#811) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mandie Landry — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-31** Effective date: 08/01/2022.
- **2022-05-31** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 202. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-26** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-25** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-25** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-24** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2022-05-24** 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`
- **2022-05-19** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-05-18** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-05-17** Reported favorably.
- **2022-03-28** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-23** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-03-23** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-03-21** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/23/2022.
- **2022-03-21** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-03-17** Reported favorably (11-0).
- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-11** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/11/2022.
- **2022-02-10** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-10** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eb61e142-f066-40b8-ac8b-5a5c0f742033`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).