republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2023/sb-187.md

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Bill	CORONERS: Provides relative to cremation of bodies. (8/1/23)	CORONERS: Provides relative to cremation of bodies. (8/1/23)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2023	SB 187	Louisiana SB 187 (2023)	bill		enacted	Caleb Kleinpeter	8	30	5	2023-03-31	2023-06-13	openstates	ocd-bill/286f5389-b95a-4f7b-afe4-a7580e069d28	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244599	83be634036256f86c0bcfe3b5e23424912503785a51287339f7d5156b1e5a953	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana SB 187 (2023) — CORONERS: Provides relative to cremation of bodies. (8/1/23)

Version chain

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

1. SB187 Original (filed) — source
2. Conference Committee Report, #3024, House Adopted, Senate Adopted (committee substitute) — source
3. House Floor Amendment, #4098, Jordan, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
4. SB187 Act 332 (committee substitute) — source
5. SB187 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
6. Senate Committee Amendment, #1500, JUDB, Draft (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Committee Amendment, #1525, JUDB, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. SB187 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#960) — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• REJECT (#912) — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1235) — 101–0 (pass) · lower
• ADOPT (#1039) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 187 BY KLEINPETER (#306) — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Caleb Kleinpeter — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-06-13 Effective date 8/1/2023.
• 2023-06-13 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 332. became-law, executive-signature
• 2023-06-08 Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. executive-receipt
• 2023-06-08 Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. enrolled
• 2023-06-08 Signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2023-06-08 Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
• 2023-06-08 Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
• 2023-06-08 Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays.
• 2023-06-08 Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 101, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
• 2023-06-08 Rules suspended.
• 2023-06-08 Conference Committee report received.
• 2023-06-07 Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
• 2023-06-07 Senate conference committee members appointed: Kleinpeter, Smith, and Tarver.
• 2023-06-07 Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
• 2023-06-07 House conferees appointed: Jordan, Gaines, and DeVillier.
• 2023-06-07 Notice of Senate rejecting House amendments.
• 2023-06-06 Rules suspended. Amendments proposed by the House read and rejected by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
• 2023-06-05 Received from the House with amendments. receipt
• 2023-06-05 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2023-06-04 Scheduled for floor debate on 06/05/2023.
• 2023-05-31 Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2023-05-30 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
• 2023-05-25 Reported favorably (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-16 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. referral-committee
• 2023-05-15 Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
• 2023-05-15 Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2023-05-10 Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2023-05-09 Reported with amendments. committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-10 Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. referral-committee
• 2023-03-31 Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. filing, referral-committee

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/286f5389-b95a-4f7b-afe4-a7580e069d28. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).