republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2023/sb-137.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "CHILDREN: Creates the Office of the State Child Ombudsman and the state child ombudsman. (8/1/23) (EN +$293,877 GF EX See Note)"
description: "CHILDREN: Creates the Office of the State Child Ombudsman and the state child ombudsman. (8/1/23) (EN +$293,877 GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 137"
citation: "Louisiana SB 137 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Regina Ashford Barrow"]
version_count: 15
action_count: 24
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-03-30"
last_action: "2023-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/db4b22ce-a883-4366-869d-aa6147067ef1"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244390"
source_hash: "0f9b873efba597987166ae6074f0fc9b5eb9f4ff9500f9364140131c9de8c99f"
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 SB 137 (2023) — CHILDREN: Creates the Office of the State Child Ombudsman and the state child ombudsman. (8/1/23) (EN +$293,877 GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB137 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1308862)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3780, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1327566)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3830, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328059)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #3923, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328719)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #3954, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329088)
6. **SB137 Act 325** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332543)
7. **SB137 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316425)
8. **SB137 Re-Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323390)
9. **SB137 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322063)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1136, FNCE, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317829)
11. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1692, FNCE, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321822)
12. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1721, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321949)
13. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1885, Barrow, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323326)
14. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1772, Mills, Fred, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322360)
15. **SB137 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331271)

## Votes

- CONCUR (#939) — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- CO-AUTHORS (#333) — **16–0** (fail) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#332) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1008) — **100–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Regina Ashford Barrow — primary (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
- Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
- Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
- J. Rogers Pope — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
- Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)
- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-12** Effective date: See Act.
- **2023-06-12** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 325. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-08** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-08** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2023-06-08** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-07** Rules suspended. Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2023-06-06** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-05** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-06-05** Called from the calendar.
- **2023-06-05** Rules suspended.
- **2023-06-05** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-06-04** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2023-06-02** Reported with amendments (15-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-01** Read by title, amended, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2023-05-31** Reported with amendments (8-0-1). To be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-22** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-18** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2023-05-17** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays; ordered re-reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-16** Read by title; Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered reengrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2023-05-15** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-27** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2023-04-26** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-30** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/db4b22ce-a883-4366-869d-aa6147067ef1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).