---
type: "Bill"
title: "CHILDREN/PARENTAL RIGHTS: Provides relative to parental rights in certain circumstances"
description: "CHILDREN/PARENTAL RIGHTS: Provides relative to parental rights in certain circumstances"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 298"
citation: "Louisiana HB 298 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jason Hughes"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 25
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-03-28"
last_action: "2023-06-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/02827b75-22fe-466a-81b5-fc1aca9889a3"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244188"
source_hash: "fa6dc260b491d3bca9c1338d0287ef0c74d7b46fb895e36fd9eb627d208670e0"
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 298 (2023) — CHILDREN/PARENTAL RIGHTS: Provides relative to parental rights in certain circumstances

## Version chain

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

1. **HB298 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1307190)
2. **HB298 Act 271** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332433)
3. **HB298 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313391)
4. **HB298 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315195)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #1670, Hughes, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314938)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #1674, Amedee, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314953)
7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2244, Mizell, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326086)
8. **HB298 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1330817)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1071) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#70) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#735) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#734) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jason Hughes — primary (person)
- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
- Richard Nelson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-09** Effective date: 06/09/2023.
- **2023-06-09** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 271. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-08** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-07** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-06** Read by title, roll called, yeas 100, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2023-06-05** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/06/2023.
- **2023-06-05** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-04** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-06-04** Reconsidered.
- **2023-06-04** Rules suspended.
- **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`
- **2023-05-18** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-17** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-16** 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 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-04-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/24/2023.
- **2023-04-20** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-19** Reported favorably (11-0-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/02827b75-22fe-466a-81b5-fc1aca9889a3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).