republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024/sb-496.md

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Bill	CHILDREN: Provides for licensure requirements in adoption services. (8/1/24)	CHILDREN: Provides for licensure requirements in adoption services. (8/1/24)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024	SB 496	Louisiana SB 496 (2024)	bill		enacted	Rick Edmonds	10	21	3	2024-04-02	2024-05-28	openstates	ocd-bill/067f41db-8d6d-4cce-969b-1914b714a192	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247195	77fe5146b5155500a4b07aa8333640f1f1a15915ef7451bf7259f4965ebb8f73	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana SB 496 (2024) — CHILDREN: Provides for licensure requirements in adoption services. (8/1/24)

Version chain

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

1. SB496 Original (filed) — source
2. House Committee Amendment, #3775, CL&P, Draft (committee substitute) — source
3. House Committee Amendment, #3870, CL&P, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
4. SB496 Act 362 (committee substitute) — source
5. SB496 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
6. SB496 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Committee Amendment, #1943, JUDA, Draft (committee substitute) — source
8. Senate Committee Amendment, #2009, JUDA, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. Senate Floor Amendment, #2253, Edmonds, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
10. SB496 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• CONCUR (#980) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#349) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#1116) — 97–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Rick Edmonds — primary (person)
• Brian Glorioso — cosponsor (person)
• Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
• John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
• Josh Carlson — cosponsor (person)
• Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
• Mark Wright — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Melerine — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
• Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-05-28 Effective date 8/1/2024.
• 2024-05-28 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 362. became-law, executive-signature
• 2024-05-23 Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. executive-receipt
• 2024-05-22 Signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2024-05-21 Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. enrolled
• 2024-05-20 Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays.
• 2024-05-15 Received from the House with amendments. receipt
• 2024-05-15 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2024-05-15 Called from the calendar.
• 2024-05-15 Read by title, returned to the calendar.
• 2024-05-14 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/2024.
• 2024-05-01 Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2024-04-30 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
• 2024-04-29 Reported with amendments (12-0-1). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-24 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. referral-committee
• 2024-04-23 Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
• 2024-04-22 Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2024-04-17 Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2024-04-16 Reported with amendments. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-03 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-04-02 Rules suspended. Introduced in the Senate. Read by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/067f41db-8d6d-4cce-969b-1914b714a192. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).