---
type: "Bill"
title: "CHILDRENS CODE: Provides relative to a child in need of care"
description: "CHILDRENS CODE: Provides relative to a child in need of care"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 184"
citation: "Louisiana HB 184 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Larry Frieman"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-24"
last_action: "2023-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/72054558-c3b1-4e02-81db-bb897def18c6"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244042"
source_hash: "b24f75e1658b57b4d031ee394eb42127118011a49164b8f9da704be098b5d64d"
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 184 (2023) — CHILDRENS CODE: Provides relative to a child in need of care

## Version chain

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

1. **HB184 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1305107)
2. **HB184 Act 226** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332287)
3. **HB184 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313562)
4. **HB184 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315192)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1386, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313305)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1421, CL&P, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313537)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #1690, Bryant, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315068)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #1697, Frieman, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315029)
9. **House Floor Amendment, #1710, Frieman, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315094)
10. **HB184 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329475)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#710) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#81) — **102–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Larry Frieman — primary (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
- Valarie Hodges — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-08** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 226. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-07** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-06** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-05** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-04** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-04** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-11** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-10** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-09** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-26** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-25** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-04-24** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-04-24** Called from the calendar.
- **2023-04-24** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2023-04-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/24/2023.
- **2023-04-20** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-19** Reported with amendments (14-0-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-24** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/24/2023.
- **2023-03-24** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-24** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/72054558-c3b1-4e02-81db-bb897def18c6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).