---
type: "Bill"
title: "CHILDREN/SUPPORT: Eliminates the minimum child support award in the child support guidelines"
description: "CHILDREN/SUPPORT: Eliminates the minimum child support award in the child support guidelines"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 337"
citation: "Louisiana HB 337 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara Carpenter"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-29"
last_action: "2023-05-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ffaa7d0c-cf51-4cc5-a2ec-a7676a1e7538"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244235"
source_hash: "06ea8631a7307da8aa275ea35b5fc8703cfb239738b5545dbe6fc58c52007625"
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 337 (2023) — CHILDREN/SUPPORT: Eliminates the minimum child support award in the child support guidelines

## Version chain

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

1. **HB337 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1307853)
2. **HB337 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328147)
3. **HB337 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313425)
4. **HB337 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1324106)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#368) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#73) — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Barbara Carpenter — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-05-30** Effective date: 01/01/2024.
- **2023-05-30** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 24. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-05-24** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-23** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-05-22** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-18** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-18** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 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`
- **2023-04-25** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-24** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-04-24** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, 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.
- **2023-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ffaa7d0c-cf51-4cc5-a2ec-a7676a1e7538`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).