republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2018/hb-287.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	ABORTION: Provides relative to laws concerning abortion based on genetic abnormality	ABORTION: Provides relative to laws concerning abortion based on genetic abnormality	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2018	HB 287	Louisiana HB 287 (2018)	bill		enacted	Rick Edmonds	4	19	2	2018-02-28	2018-05-10	openstates	ocd-bill/16205cce-4040-406d-885b-9d8eefd78ae7	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233602	3bed605977d5556930d6dcb503667a2ccf2cb3240c43e58bea7f622f9b670e62	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 287 (2018) — ABORTION: Provides relative to laws concerning abortion based on genetic abnormality

Version chain

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

1. HB287 Original (filed) — source
2. HB287 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. HB287 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB287 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#714) — 31–1 (pass) · legislature
• FINAL PASSAGE (#360) — 96–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Rick Edmonds — primary (person)
• Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
• Charles R. "Bubba" Chaney — cosponsor (person)
• Frank Hoffmann — cosponsor (person)
• H. Bernard LeBas — cosponsor (person)
• J. Rogers Pope — cosponsor (person)
• Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
• Julie Stokes — cosponsor (person)
• Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
• Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
• Robert Johnson — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-05-10 Effective date: 05/10/2018.
• 2018-05-10 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 77. executive-signature
• 2018-05-08 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2018-05-07 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2018-05-07 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2018-05-03 Received from the Senate without amendments.
• 2018-05-03 Read by title, passed by a vote of 31 yeas and 1 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 96, nays 0. 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, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2018-04-04 Reported favorably (9-0).
• 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/16205cce-4040-406d-885b-9d8eefd78ae7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).