republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2021/hb-452.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "DOMESTIC ABUSE: Creates a domestic violence fatality review team within the Louisiana Department of Health (EN +$160,823 GF EX See Note)"
description: "DOMESTIC ABUSE: Creates a domestic violence fatality review team within the Louisiana Department of Health (EN +$160,823 GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 452"
citation: "Louisiana HB 452 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Paula Davis"]
version_count: 15
action_count: 29
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-04-02"
last_action: "2021-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f709a772-ec63-4780-b53e-48b04ab3bb00"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240406"
source_hash: "faded53458e551bc574a5a7c56c5597c18f07ac1186c441b13f94106798d2471"
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 452 (2021) — DOMESTIC ABUSE: Creates a domestic violence fatality review team within the Louisiana Department of Health (EN +$160,823 GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB452 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1211478)
2. **HB452 Act 320** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235636)
3. **HB452 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218233)
4. **HB452 Re-Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1228512)
5. **HB452 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224112)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2618, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222874)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #2832, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224017)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #2955, Davis, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224738)
9. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2559, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1227754)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3084, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230609)
11. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3178, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230847)
12. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3567, Mizell, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232624)
13. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3589, Foil, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232895)
14. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #3527, Foil, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232234)
15. **HB452 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1233625)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#959) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1118) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#718) — **101–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Paula Davis — primary (person)
- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
- Mandie Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
- Valarie Hodges — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-14** Effective date: See Act.
- **2021-06-14** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 320. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-11** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-08** Read by title, roll called, yeas 99, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2021-06-07** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/08/2021.
- **2021-06-07** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2021-06-07** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-06-07** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2021-06-07** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2021-06-07** Rules suspended.
- **2021-06-06** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-06-06** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-06-02** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2021-05-27** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-26** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-26** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-25** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/26/2021.
- **2021-05-25** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-24** Reported favorably (15-0).
- **2021-05-13** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2021-05-12** Reported with amendments (12-0).
- **2021-04-29** Read by title, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
- **2021-04-28** Reported favorably (14-0. To be recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021.
- **2021-04-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f709a772-ec63-4780-b53e-48b04ab3bb00`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).