---
type: "Bill"
title: "ABORTION: Provides relative to liability for the unlawful termination of a pregnancy"
description: "ABORTION: Provides relative to liability for the unlawful termination of a pregnancy"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 575"
citation: "Louisiana HB 575 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lauren Ventrella"]
version_count: 17
action_count: 26
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-04-04"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e843b502-fb6b-42f1-96ce-0b4f4cac13b7"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248621"
source_hash: "32173b8c341bd19bdd22edc923485943fa8df8c8b9a1a80628ce8bffc7c52e7a"
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 575 (2025) — ABORTION: Provides relative to liability for the unlawful termination of a pregnancy

## Version chain

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

1. **HB575 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1404359)
2. **HB575 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1426005)
3. **HB575 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413679)
4. **HB575 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415056)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2381, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412145)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2655, CL&P, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413612)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2921, Ventrella, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414905)
8. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1625, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414017)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2290, JUDA, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418468)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2301, JUDA, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418511)
11. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2310, JUDA, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418578)
12. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3036, Edmonds, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422478)
13. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3041, Duplessis, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422480)
14. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3056, Duplessis, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422511)
15. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3099, Mizell, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422708)
16. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #2635, Miller, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420524)
17. **HB575 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424477)

## Votes

- MODIFY TIME LIMITS (#406) — **37–49** (fail) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 3056 BY DUPLESSIS, HB 575 BY VENTRELLA (#763) — **9–28** (fail) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#764) — **28–9** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1141) — **77–19** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#409) — **59–25** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lauren Ventrella — primary (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Danny McCormick — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Deshotel — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Dewitt — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
- Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
- Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)
- Shane Mack — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-20** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 383. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-12** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-12** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-11** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-10** Read by title, roll called, yeas 77, nays 19, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2025-06-09** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/10/2025.
- **2025-06-09** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-08** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 28 yeas and 9 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2025-06-03** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2025-06-03** Rules suspended.
- **2025-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-01** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-29** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-20** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-19** 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, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 59, nays 25. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-14** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-05-14** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2025-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/14/2025.
- **2025-05-13** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-12** Reported with amendments (8-2-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e843b502-fb6b-42f1-96ce-0b4f4cac13b7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).