---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIME: Provides relative to the unauthorized use of sperm, ovum, or embryo"
description: "CRIME: Provides relative to the unauthorized use of sperm, ovum, or embryo"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 60"
citation: "Louisiana HB 60 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kathy Edmonston"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-06"
last_action: "2024-05-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/93e21f01-86b8-495c-bf6c-f42f30665247"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245581"
source_hash: "41a382481f8dfdb5a0c61421e7722f5a0458a876d0ad15debc38e442c78d038f"
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 60 (2024) — CRIME: Provides relative to the unauthorized use of sperm, ovum, or embryo

## Version chain

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

1. **HB60 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1342275)
2. **HB60 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379609)
3. **HB60 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363900)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1044, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1353066)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2648, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363849)
6. **HB60 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375912)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#941) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#482) — **102–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kathy Edmonston — primary (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Danny McCormick — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Melerine — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Paula Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
- Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent Cox III — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-24** Effective date: 05/24/2024.
- **2024-05-24** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 256. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-22** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-20** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-20** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-20** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-13** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-08** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-07** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-15** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/15/2024.
- **2024-04-10** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-09** Reported with amendments (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-09** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/9/2024.
- **2024-02-06** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-06** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/93e21f01-86b8-495c-bf6c-f42f30665247`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).