---
type: "Bill"
title: "ABORTION: Provides relative to coerced abortion (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
description: "ABORTION: Provides relative to coerced abortion (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 425"
citation: "Louisiana HB 425 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Josh Carlson"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 20
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-04-03"
last_action: "2025-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8055f335-5f5d-4f5f-bbeb-ea9126cb8c9f"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248431"
source_hash: "4c4735899f4363f019697c801138165904a2f4d2247d6aaa86d3b3e029b182aa"
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 425 (2025) — ABORTION: Provides relative to coerced abortion (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB425 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1403403)
2. **HB425 Act 275** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425588)
3. **HB425 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412998)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #2017, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410204)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2517, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412946)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2604, JUDC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420263)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2608, JUDC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420280)
8. **HB425 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1423413)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#715) — **30–7** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#388) — **80–10** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1003) — **81–19** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Josh Carlson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 275. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-10** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-10** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-09** Read by title, roll called, yeas 81, nays 19, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2025-06-08** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/09/2025.
- **2025-06-08** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 30 yeas and 7 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-06-04** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-03** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-19** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-14** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-14** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 80, nays 10. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/14/2025.
- **2025-05-12** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-08** Reported with amendments (11-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8055f335-5f5d-4f5f-bbeb-ea9126cb8c9f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).