---
type: "Bill"
title: "VITAL RECORDS/BIRTH CERT: Provides for a Commemorative Certificate of Miscarried Child (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV See Note)"
description: "VITAL RECORDS/BIRTH CERT: Provides for a Commemorative Certificate of Miscarried Child (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 457"
citation: "Louisiana HB 457 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Raymond Crews"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-31"
last_action: "2023-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4c532c78-ecc9-4418-b7bf-ddeba59a988c"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244413"
source_hash: "7f5d69dce57a3253beb85003384d4ea5135af95e9fd39295cde6ea8ef8d9a381"
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 457 (2023) — VITAL RECORDS/BIRTH CERT: Provides for a Commemorative Certificate of Miscarried Child (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB457 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1309102)
2. **HB457 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332510)
3. **HB457 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318552)
4. **HB457 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322613)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2093, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317541)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2156, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317877)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #2165, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317891)
8. **House Committee Amendment, #2259, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318519)
9. **House Floor Amendment, #2920, Crews, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322025)
10. **HB457 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329671)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#429) — **97–5** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#769) — **34–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Raymond Crews — primary (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Deshotel — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
- Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Frieman — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Paul Hollis — cosponsor (person)
- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-12** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-12** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 353. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-07** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-06** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-05** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-05** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-04** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 2 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-26** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-25** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-24** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-18** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-17** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-16** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 5. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/16/2023.
- **2023-05-04** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-03** Reported with amendments (15-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-31** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-31** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4c532c78-ecc9-4418-b7bf-ddeba59a988c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).