republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2018/hb-273.md

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Bill	HUMAN REMAINS: Provides relative to post-abortion interment or cremation of human remains	HUMAN REMAINS: Provides relative to post-abortion interment or cremation of human remains	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2018	HB 273	Louisiana HB 273 (2018)	bill		enacted	Frank Hoffmann	6	19	2	2018-02-28	2018-05-15	openstates	ocd-bill/515c7629-6baf-4cfd-9757-bd80e01fdebf	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233578	807fa0574d01f2e872710bc36fecf64afb0218d83e38230a475a608cad79e543	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 273 (2018) — HUMAN REMAINS: Provides relative to post-abortion interment or cremation of human remains

Version chain

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

1. HB273 Original (filed) — source
2. HB273 Act 204 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB273 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. House Committee Amendment, #2086, H&W, Draft (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #2226, H&W, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. HB273 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#358) — 95–1 (pass) · legislature
• FINAL PASSAGE (#742) — 31–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Frank Hoffmann — primary (person)
• Andy Anders — cosponsor (person)
• Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
• Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
• Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
• Chad Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Charles R. "Bubba" Chaney — cosponsor (person)
• Chris Hazel — cosponsor (person)
• Clay Schexnayder — cosponsor (person)
• Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
• H. Bernard LeBas — cosponsor (person)
• J. Rogers Pope — cosponsor (person)
• Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
• Jeff Hall — cosponsor (person)
• Jerome "Dee" Richard — cosponsor (person)
• Jerry "Truck" Gisclair — cosponsor (person)
• Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
• John A. Johnny Berthelot — cosponsor (person)
• John E. "Johnny" Guinn — cosponsor (person)
• Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
• Julie Stokes — cosponsor (person)
• Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
• Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
• Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
• Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
• Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
• Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Danahay — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Huval — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Walsworth — cosponsor (person)
• Nicholas Muscarello — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick Connick — cosponsor (person)
• Paula Davis — cosponsor (person)
• Polly Thomas — cosponsor (person)
• Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
• Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
• Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
• Reid Falconer — cosponsor (person)
• Robert Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie Hilferty — cosponsor (person)
• Steven E. Pylant — cosponsor (person)
• Tanner Magee — cosponsor (person)
• Taylor F. Barras — cosponsor (person)
• Terry Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Thomas Carmody — cosponsor (person)
• Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
• Valarie Hodges — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-05-15 Effective date: 05/15/2018.
• 2018-05-15 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 204. executive-signature
• 2018-05-09 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2018-05-09 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2018-05-08 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2018-05-07 Received from the Senate without amendments.
• 2018-05-07 Read by title, passed by a vote of 31 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2018-04-30 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2018-04-26 Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2018-04-25 Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
• 2018-04-12 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. referral-committee
• 2018-04-11 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
• 2018-04-10 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2018-04-06 Scheduled for floor debate on 04/10/18.
• 2018-04-05 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2018-04-04 Reported with amendments (10-0).
• 2018-03-12 Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. referral-committee
• 2018-02-28 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. referral-committee
• 2018-02-28 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/515c7629-6baf-4cfd-9757-bd80e01fdebf. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).