republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024/sb-276.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	CRIME/PUNISHMENT: Creates the crime of coerced criminal abortion by means of fraud to prohibit a third-party from knowingly using an abortion-inducing drug to cause, or attempt to cause, an abortion on an unsuspecting pregnant mother without her knowledge or consent and amends various abortion criminal laws to add the crime of attempted abortion. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)	CRIME/PUNISHMENT: Creates the crime of coerced criminal abortion by means of fraud to prohibit a third-party from knowingly using an abortion-inducing drug to cause, or attempt to cause, an abortion on an unsuspecting pregnant mother without her knowledge or consent and amends various abortion criminal laws to add the crime of attempted abortion. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024	SB 276	Louisiana SB 276 (2024)	bill		enacted	Thomas Pressly	9	26	6	2024-03-01	2024-05-28	openstates	ocd-bill/1b08eda2-4bea-42d5-b6f7-8a22e02d83a8	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246533	91340d80a228c2a3f1860376a43c67da502fcb0b1aed58e2c8192c6cc9ef22d0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana SB 276 (2024) — CRIME/PUNISHMENT: Creates the crime of coerced criminal abortion by means of fraud to prohibit a third-party from knowingly using an abortion-inducing drug to cause, or attempt to cause, an abortion on an unsuspecting pregnant mother without her knowledge or consent and amends various abortion criminal laws to add the crime of attempted abortion. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

Version chain

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

1. SB276 Original (filed) — source
2. House Committee Amendment, #3946, ACRJ, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
3. House Floor Amendment, #4492, Emerson, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
4. House Floor Amendment, #4792, Emerson, Proposed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Floor Amendment, #4837, Landry, Mandie, Rejected (committee substitute) — source
6. House Floor Amendment, #4903, Emerson, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. SB276 Act (committee substitute) — source
8. SB276 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
9. SB276 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#301) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• AMENDMENT # 4837 BY LANDRY, M., MOTION TO ADOPT (#1234) — 30–66 (fail) · lower
• CONCUR (#1162) — 29–7 (pass) · upper
• CO-AUTHORS (#302) — 22–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#1235) — 65–31 (pass) · lower
• HEALTH AND WELFARE (#1233) — 25–69 (fail) · lower

Sponsors

• Thomas Pressly — primary (person)
• Adam Bass — cosponsor (person)
• Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
• Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
• Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
• Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
• Brian Glorioso — cosponsor (person)
• Caleb Kleinpeter — cosponsor (person)
• Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
• Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
• Dennis Bamburg Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
• Eddie Lambert — cosponsor (person)
• Emily Chenevert — cosponsor (person)
• Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
• Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
• Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
• Gregory A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
• Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
• Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
• Jeremy Stine — cosponsor (person)
• John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
• Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
• Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
• Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
• Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person)
• Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick Connick — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
• Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
• Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
• Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
• Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
• Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
• Robert Allain — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
• Shane Mack — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
• Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Valarie Hodges — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-05-24 Effective date 10/1/2024.
• 2024-05-24 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 246. became-law, executive-signature
• 2024-05-28 Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/23/2024. executive-receipt
• 2024-05-23 Signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2024-05-28 Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate on 5/23/2024. enrolled
• 2024-05-23 Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 29 yeas and 7 nays.
• 2024-05-23 Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
• 2024-05-22 Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
• 2024-05-22 Rules suspended.
• 2024-05-21 Received from the House with amendments. receipt
• 2024-05-21 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 65, nays 31. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2024-05-21 Called from the calendar.
• 2024-05-20 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/2024.
• 2024-05-20 Notice given.
• 2024-05-20 Read by title, returned to the calendar.
• 2024-05-15 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/20/2024.
• 2024-05-06 Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2024-05-01 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
• 2024-04-30 Reported with amendments (13-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-17 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. referral-committee
• 2024-04-16 Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
• 2024-04-16 Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2024-04-15 Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2024-04-09 Reported favorably. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-11 Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. referral-committee
• 2024-03-01 Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. filing, referral-committee

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1b08eda2-4bea-42d5-b6f7-8a22e02d83a8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).