---
type: "Bill"
title: "VITAL RECORDS/BIRTH CERT: Designates Act No. 470 of the 2022 Regular Session as \"The Jean and Elise Act\""
description: "VITAL RECORDS/BIRTH CERT: Designates Act No. 470 of the 2022 Regular Session as \"The Jean and Elise Act\""
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 55"
citation: "Louisiana HB 55 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles Owen"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-01"
last_action: "2024-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3423cc66-7eb1-4d95-8b34-b7e39377fd48"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245575"
source_hash: "451e6a417164c778ec46e2708efd0ab99a090695430903c9c561065f3641b86d"
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 55 (2024) — VITAL RECORDS/BIRTH CERT: Designates Act No. 470 of the 2022 Regular Session as "The Jean and Elise Act"

## Version chain

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

1. **HB55 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1341875)
2. **HB55 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372971)
3. **HB55 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354139)
4. **HB55 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370797)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#457) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#23) — **101–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Charles Owen — primary (person)
- Brian Glorioso — cosponsor (person)
- Chad Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Emily Chenevert — cosponsor (person)
- John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
- Josh Carlson — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Melerine — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-08** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-05-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 13. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-06** Signed by the President of the Senate on 5/1/2024.
- **2024-05-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-04-30** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-04-30** 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`
- **2024-04-22** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-17** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-04-16** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-20** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-19** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-03-19** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-03-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/19/2024.
- **2024-03-18** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-03-13** Reported favorably (13-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/2/2024.
- **2024-02-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3423cc66-7eb1-4d95-8b34-b7e39377fd48`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).