---
type: "Bill"
title: "CHILDREN: Provides relative to the disposition of reports from the Department of Children and Family Services"
description: "CHILDREN: Provides relative to the disposition of reports from the Department of Children and Family Services"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 848"
citation: "Louisiana HB 848 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Marcus Bryant"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-03-21"
last_action: "2022-05-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/af327aa8-2c85-45d8-93a5-629c415760cf"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242807"
source_hash: "60562114de79ea11cdbb4eaf2629cf9baf2d435d73645e886598d9f255ab4002"
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 848 (2022) — CHILDREN: Provides relative to the disposition of reports from the Department of Children and Family Services

## Version chain

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

1. **HB848 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1260836)
2. **HB848 Act 232** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1286807)
3. **HB848 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1263461)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1749, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1263107)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1796, CL&P, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1263432)
6. **HB848 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1283035)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#829) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#242) — **88–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Marcus Bryant — 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. 232. `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.
- **2022-04-13** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-12** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-04-11** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 88, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-04-11** Called from the calendar.
- **2022-04-07** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/11/2022.
- **2022-04-07** Notice given.
- **2022-04-07** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2022-04-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/07/2022.
- **2022-04-04** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-03-29** Reported with amendments (14-0-1).
- **2022-03-22** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-21** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/af327aa8-2c85-45d8-93a5-629c415760cf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).