republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2020/sb-137.md

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Bill	CORONERS: Authorizes the coroner to issue a permit for cremation after completion of coroner's investigation of death when under suspicious circumstances or the reasonable probability of the commission of a crime. (8/1/20)	CORONERS: Authorizes the coroner to issue a permit for cremation after completion of coroner's investigation of death when under suspicious circumstances or the reasonable probability of the commission of a crime. (8/1/20)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2020	SB 137	Louisiana SB 137 (2020)	bill		enacted	Franklin J. Foil	5	16	2	2020-02-25	2020-06-09	openstates	ocd-bill/a99080f0-7578-43ba-ac4c-b6ccddfbbb1b	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237741	156e8f8bb057b0657430b4f764ef55eb649f7ce7bb962efaa34a37a75a3342d9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana SB 137 (2020) — CORONERS: Authorizes the coroner to issue a permit for cremation after completion of coroner's investigation of death when under suspicious circumstances or the reasonable probability of the commission of a crime. (8/1/20)

Version chain

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

1. SB137 Original (filed) — source
2. SB137 Act 113 (committee substitute) — source
3. SB137 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate Committee Amendment, #968, JUDB, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
5. SB137 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#100) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#520) — 94–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Franklin J. Foil — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-06-09 Effective date 8/1/2020.
• 2020-06-09 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 113. executive-signature
• 2020-06-01 Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. executive-receipt
• 2020-05-31 Signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2020-05-29 Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2020-05-28 Received from the House without amendments.
• 2020-05-28 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2020-05-22 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/28/20.
• 2020-05-22 Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2020-05-21 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
• 2020-05-20 Reported favorably (12-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2020-05-13 Received in the House from the Senate, rules suspended, read by title, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. referral-committee
• 2020-05-11 Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2020-05-07 Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Read by title; Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2020-03-09 Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. referral-committee
• 2020-02-25 Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. filing, referral-committee

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a99080f0-7578-43ba-ac4c-b6ccddfbbb1b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).