---
type: "Bill"
title: "CHILDREN: Provides relative to the Children's Cabinet Advisory Board"
description: "CHILDREN: Provides relative to the Children's Cabinet Advisory Board"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 137"
citation: "Louisiana HB 137 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ken Brass"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 35
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-02-23"
last_action: "2024-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cb3f5222-0b79-42f8-9ee1-33bd6730711a"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245701"
source_hash: "093c8fcec78fe05f3b01367c66250974eaa95f2c256cf099e47959385b960a8f"
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 137 (2024) — CHILDREN: Provides relative to the Children's Cabinet Advisory Board

## Version chain

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

1. **HB137 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1345612)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #4981, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377040)
3. **HB137 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382279)
4. **HB137 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356724)
5. **HB137 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358579)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1498, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356267)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #1548, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356661)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #1671, Brass, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1357254)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2830, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370760)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2891, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370991)
11. **HB137 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381309)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#910) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1372) — **92–0** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1648) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT (#1419) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#107) — **104–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ken Brass — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-10** Effective date: 06/10/2024.
- **2024-06-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 543. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-06-04** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-06-02** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-31** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2024-05-31** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2024-05-30** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2024-05-30** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 95, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2024-05-29** Conference committee report received.
- **2024-05-29** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/30/2024.
- **2024-05-29** Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules.
- **2024-05-29** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2024-05-28** House conferees appointed: Brass, Miller, and LaFleur.
- **2024-05-28** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2024-05-28** Senate conference committee members appointed: McMath, Miguez, and Price.
- **2024-05-23** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
- **2024-05-23** Read by title, roll called, yeas 92, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
- **2024-05-23** Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
- **2024-05-22** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/23/2024.
- **2024-05-20** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-07** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-06** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-01** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-02** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-27** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-03-26** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 104, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-03-25** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/26/2024.
- **2024-03-25** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-03-21** Reported with amendments (13-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-23** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/23/2024.
- **2024-02-23** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-23** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cb3f5222-0b79-42f8-9ee1-33bd6730711a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).