republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024/hb-236.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	CHILDREN/CUSTODY: Provides for evaluations in child custody proceedings (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)	CHILDREN/CUSTODY: Provides for evaluations in child custody proceedings (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024	HB 236	Louisiana HB 236 (2024)	bill		enacted	Dixon McMakin	8	29	3	2024-02-27	2024-06-10	openstates	ocd-bill/338f699c-82e5-4be7-bd43-ba7e48a874e2	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245849	d357a2537a8fc091e28639059a49f5fd9d99bf70759eb18775be1832b2aa7bcb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 236 (2024) — CHILDREN/CUSTODY: Provides for evaluations in child custody proceedings (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)

Version chain

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

1. HB236 Original (filed) — source
2. HB236 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. HB236 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB236 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Floor Amendment, #3110, McMakin, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. Senate Committee Amendment, #2696, JUDA, Draft (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Committee Amendment, #2784, JUDA, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. HB236 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1475) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#888) — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#551) — 93–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dixon McMakin — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-06-10 Effective date: 08/01/2024.
• 2024-06-10 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 552. became-law, executive-signature
• 2024-06-03 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2024-05-29 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2024-05-29 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2024-05-28 Read by title, roll called, yeas 98, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
• 2024-05-22 Scheduled for concurrence on 05/28/2024.
• 2024-05-20 Received from the Senate with amendments. receipt
• 2024-05-16 Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2024-05-06 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2024-05-01 Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2024-04-30 Reported with amendments. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-22 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-04-17 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2024-04-16 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2024-04-16 Called from the calendar.
• 2024-04-15 Scheduled for floor debate on 04/16/2024.
• 2024-04-15 Notice given.
• 2024-04-15 Read by title, returned to the calendar.
• 2024-04-15 Called from the calendar.
• 2024-04-09 Scheduled for floor debate on 04/15/2024.
• 2024-04-09 Notice given.
• 2024-04-04 Read by title, returned to the calendar.
• 2024-04-03 Scheduled for floor debate on 04/04/2024.
• 2024-04-03 Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2024-04-02 Reported favorably (8-0-1). committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-11 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. referral-committee
• 2024-02-27 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. referral-committee
• 2024-02-27 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/338f699c-82e5-4be7-bd43-ba7e48a874e2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).