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type: "Bill"
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title: "CEMETERIES: Provides for the burial of pet remains with human remains"
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description: "CEMETERIES: Provides for the burial of pet remains with human remains"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
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legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
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session: "2023"
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identifier: "HB 248"
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citation: "Louisiana HB 248 (2023)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Wayne McMahen"]
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version_count: 9
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action_count: 24
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2023-03-28"
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last_action: "2023-05-30"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/87aeefbe-476e-41af-adb1-630f89685ee8"
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source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244120"
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source_hash: "b63a549c3a71b83fead6b83b624efac2759edf7019cebe492a734199d0174e4e"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
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---
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# Louisiana HB 248 (2023) — CEMETERIES: Provides for the burial of pet remains with human remains
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **HB248 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1306332)
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2. **HB248 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328142)
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3. **HB248 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315172)
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4. **HB248 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318265)
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5. **House Committee Amendment, #1574, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314446)
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6. **House Committee Amendment, #1628, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314647)
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7. **House Committee Amendment, #1671, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315127)
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8. **House Floor Amendment, #2015, McMahen, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317250)
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9. **HB248 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325276)
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## Votes
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- FINAL PASSAGE (#201) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
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- FINAL PASSAGE (#397) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Wayne McMahen — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2023-05-30** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
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- **2023-05-30** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 20. `became-law, executive-signature`
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- **2023-05-30** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
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- **2023-05-26** Signed by the President of the Senate.
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- **2023-05-24** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
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- **2023-05-23** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
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- **2023-05-23** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
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- **2023-05-15** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
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- **2023-05-11** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
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- **2023-05-10** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-05-04** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2023-05-03** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
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- **2023-05-02** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
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- **2023-05-02** Called from the calendar.
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- **2023-04-27** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/02/2023.
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- **2023-04-27** Notice given.
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- **2023-04-27** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
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- **2023-04-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/27/2023.
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- **2023-04-25** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
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- **2023-04-24** Reported with amendments (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
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- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
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- **2023-03-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
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- **2023-03-28** Prefiled. `filing`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/87aeefbe-476e-41af-adb1-630f89685ee8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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