republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2018/hb-577.md

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Bill	VITAL STATISTICS: Provides relative to disclosure of certain vital records to organ procurement organizations	VITAL STATISTICS: Provides relative to disclosure of certain vital records to organ procurement organizations	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2018	HB 577	Louisiana HB 577 (2018)	bill		enacted	Walt Leger, III	6	19	2	2018-03-02	2018-05-10	openstates	ocd-bill/933c7713-d345-4ed1-8f19-5a22bd2d8742	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=234047	300a8e18bd9710715cffca5a2fbfeadf2ba49e0e7f97afa9f65c5bcdb2709e7a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 577 (2018) — VITAL STATISTICS: Provides relative to disclosure of certain vital records to organ procurement organizations

Version chain

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

1. HB577 Original (filed) — source
2. HB577 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. HB577 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. House Committee Amendment, #1410, H&W, Draft (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #1550, H&W, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. HB577 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#187) — 90–0 (pass) · legislature
• FINAL PASSAGE (#538) — 35–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Walt Leger, III — primary (person)
• Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
• Charles R. "Bubba" Chaney — cosponsor (person)
• Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
• H. Bernard LeBas — cosponsor (person)
• Jerome "Dee" Richard — cosponsor (person)
• Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
• Julie Stokes — cosponsor (person)
• Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
• Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-05-10 Effective date: 08/01/2018.
• 2018-05-10 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 98. executive-signature
• 2018-05-01 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2018-04-30 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2018-04-26 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2018-04-26 Received from the Senate without amendments.
• 2018-04-25 Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2018-04-23 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2018-04-19 Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2018-04-18 Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
• 2018-04-03 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. referral-committee
• 2018-04-02 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
• 2018-03-29 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2018-03-22 Scheduled for floor debate on 03/29/18.
• 2018-03-22 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2018-03-21 Reported with amendments (13-0).
• 2018-03-12 Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. referral-committee
• 2018-03-02 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. referral-committee
• 2018-03-02 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/933c7713-d345-4ed1-8f19-5a22bd2d8742. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).