republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024/sb-312.md

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Bill	CHILDREN: Provides for the Adoption Awareness Act. (8/1/24) (EN +$334,379 FF EX See Note)	CHILDREN: Provides for the Adoption Awareness Act. (8/1/24) (EN +$334,379 FF EX See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024	SB 312	Louisiana SB 312 (2024)	bill		enacted	Rick Edmonds	10	21	3	2024-03-01	2024-06-10	openstates	ocd-bill/a566ec26-86c2-4d4b-b7c8-5318a212a51a	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246593	91c4a3152cf2ec6ea479fca42907d263c2085802e6ffa8b20215f56c8ce1c1ff	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana SB 312 (2024) — CHILDREN: Provides for the Adoption Awareness Act. (8/1/24) (EN +$334,379 FF EX See Note)

Version chain

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

1. SB312 Original (filed) — source
2. House Committee Amendment, #4544, H&W, Draft (committee substitute) — source
3. House Committee Amendment, #4602, H&W, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
4. SB312 Act 515 (committee substitute) — source
5. SB312 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
6. Senate Committee Amendment, #1798, H&W, Draft (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Committee Amendment, #2042, H&W, Draft (committee substitute) — source
8. Senate Committee Amendment, #2426, H&W, Draft (committee substitute) — source
9. Senate Committee Amendment, #2465, H&W, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
10. SB312 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#517) — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#1304) — 94–0 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR (#1197) — 35–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Rick Edmonds — primary (person)
• Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
• Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
• Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
• Emily Chenevert — cosponsor (person)
• Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
• Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
• R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
• Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)
• Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
• Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-06-10 Effective date 1/1/2025.
• 2024-06-10 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 515. became-law, executive-signature
• 2024-05-31 Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. executive-receipt
• 2024-05-30 Signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2024-05-29 Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. enrolled
• 2024-05-28 Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays.
• 2024-05-22 Received from the House with amendments. receipt
• 2024-05-22 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2024-05-20 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/2024.
• 2024-05-20 Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2024-05-15 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
• 2024-05-14 Reported with amendments (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-05-08 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. referral-committee
• 2024-05-07 Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
• 2024-05-06 Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2024-05-01 Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2024-05-01 Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
• 2024-04-29 Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted; ordered engrossed and recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
• 2024-04-24 Reported with amendments. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-11 Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. referral-committee
• 2024-03-01 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; origin ocd-bill/a566ec26-86c2-4d4b-b7c8-5318a212a51a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).