republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2023/hb-457.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	VITAL RECORDS/BIRTH CERT: Provides for a Commemorative Certificate of Miscarried Child (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV See Note)	VITAL RECORDS/BIRTH CERT: Provides for a Commemorative Certificate of Miscarried Child (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2023	HB 457	Louisiana HB 457 (2023)	bill		enacted	Raymond Crews	10	20	2	2023-03-31	2023-06-12	openstates	ocd-bill/4c532c78-ecc9-4418-b7bf-ddeba59a988c	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244413	7f5d69dce57a3253beb85003384d4ea5135af95e9fd39295cde6ea8ef8d9a381	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 457 (2023) — VITAL RECORDS/BIRTH CERT: Provides for a Commemorative Certificate of Miscarried Child (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV See Note)

Version chain

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

1. HB457 Original (filed) — source
2. HB457 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. HB457 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB457 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #2093, H&W, Draft (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #2156, H&W, Draft (committee substitute) — source
7. House Committee Amendment, #2165, H&W, Draft (committee substitute) — source
8. House Committee Amendment, #2259, H&W, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. House Floor Amendment, #2920, Crews, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
10. HB457 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#429) — 97–5 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#769) — 34–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Raymond Crews — primary (person)
• Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
• Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
• Daryl Deshotel — cosponsor (person)
• Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
• Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
• Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
• Larry Frieman — cosponsor (person)
• Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
• Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
• Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
• Paul Hollis — cosponsor (person)
• R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
• Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
• Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-06-12 Effective date: 08/01/2023.
• 2023-06-12 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 353. became-law, executive-signature
• 2023-06-07 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2023-06-06 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2023-06-05 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2023-06-05 Received from the Senate without amendments. receipt
• 2023-06-04 Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 2 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2023-05-26 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2023-05-25 Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2023-05-24 Rules suspended. Reported favorably. committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-18 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-05-17 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2023-05-16 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 5. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2023-05-11 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/16/2023.
• 2023-05-04 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2023-05-03 Reported with amendments (15-0). committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-10 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. referral-committee
• 2023-04-03 First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
• 2023-03-31 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. referral-committee
• 2023-03-31 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4c532c78-ecc9-4418-b7bf-ddeba59a988c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).