republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2023/hb-5.md

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Bill	PATERNITY: Provides relative to pregnancy-related medical expense obligations	PATERNITY: Provides relative to pregnancy-related medical expense obligations	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2023	HB 5	Louisiana HB 5 (2023)	bill		enacted	Larry Frieman	11	22	4	2023-01-12	2023-06-28	openstates	ocd-bill/925b3980-6d2e-4b60-a5d8-e49c044b9c50	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=243810	0d4d9837bbf64dc70a0fdeb262be2c8a4d80b508c0d53455818d724754e54ba4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 5 (2023) — PATERNITY: Provides relative to pregnancy-related medical expense obligations

Version chain

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

1. HB5 Original (filed) — source
2. HB5 Act 439 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB5 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB5 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #1337, CL&P, Draft (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #1412, CL&P, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. House Floor Amendment, #1633, Frieman, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #706, Horton, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. Senate Floor Amendment, #2121, Cloud, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
10. Senate Floor Amendment, #2805, Cathey, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
11. HB5 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• ADD CO-AUTHORS (#65) — 16–0 (fail) · lower
• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1044) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#728) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#64) — 101–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Larry Frieman — primary (person)
• Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
• Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
• Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
• Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
• Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
• Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
• Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
• Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
• Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
• Polly Thomas — cosponsor (person)
• Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
• Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
• Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
• Sherman Q. Mack — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie Hilferty — cosponsor (person)
• Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
• Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-06-28 Effective date: 08/01/2023.
• 2023-06-28 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 439. became-law, executive-signature
• 2023-06-08 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2023-06-07 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2023-06-07 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2023-06-06 Read by title, roll called, yeas 98, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
• 2023-06-05 Scheduled for concurrence on 06/06/2023.
• 2023-06-05 Received from the Senate with amendments. receipt
• 2023-06-04 Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2023-05-18 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2023-05-17 Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2023-05-16 Reported favorably. committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-26 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-04-25 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2023-04-24 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2023-04-20 Scheduled for floor debate on 04/24/2023.
• 2023-04-20 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2023-04-19 Reported with amendments (13-0-1). committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-10 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. referral-committee
• 2023-02-03 First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/3/2023.
• 2023-01-12 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. referral-committee
• 2023-01-12 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/925b3980-6d2e-4b60-a5d8-e49c044b9c50. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).