---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH DEPARTMENT: Provides relative to coroners. (gov sig)"
description: "HEALTH DEPARTMENT: Provides relative to coroners. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 447"
citation: "Louisiana SB 447 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beth Mizell"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-04-02"
last_action: "2024-05-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e0caca98-2f12-4f33-a1a3-9f01273db70e"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247036"
source_hash: "ba3113fe734cefaa992575dddf0628cea0e1ba954fd6e641a37fc067279c72f8"
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 SB 447 (2024) — HEALTH DEPARTMENT: Provides relative to coroners. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB447 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1360794)
2. **House Floor Amendment, #4291, Chenevert, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372491)
3. **SB447 Act 354** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380829)
4. **SB447 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363760)
5. **SB447 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377291)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#1156) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#1038) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#307) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Beth Mizell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-28** Effective date 5/28/2024.
- **2024-05-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 354. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-28** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/23/2024. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-23** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-05-22** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-21** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2024-05-20** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-20** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-15** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/20/2024.
- **2024-05-07** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-06** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-05-01** Reported favorably (13-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-17** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-16** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-04-16** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-15** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-04-09** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-02** Introduced in the Senate. Read by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e0caca98-2f12-4f33-a1a3-9f01273db70e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).