republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2025/hb-238.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	TAX/INCOME TAX: Provides relative to tax benefits for adoption and for donations to foster care organizations and provides relative to tax deductions for certain education-related expenses (EN NO IMPACT GF RV See Note)	TAX/INCOME TAX: Provides relative to tax benefits for adoption and for donations to foster care organizations and provides relative to tax deductions for certain education-related expenses (EN NO IMPACT GF RV See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2025	HB 238	Louisiana HB 238 (2025)	bill		enacted	Jack McFarland	9	33	5	2025-04-01	2025-06-20	openstates	ocd-bill/5fdeb02a-1f50-4541-8b4e-08bcb4acb776	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248166	7e23721b27a7c75372ff49fe690e9b17cc2e69e042c72f4d3ff3f0ede15cbd65	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 238 (2025) — TAX/INCOME TAX: Provides relative to tax benefits for adoption and for donations to foster care organizations and provides relative to tax deductions for certain education-related expenses (EN NO IMPACT GF RV See Note)

Version chain

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

1. HB238 Original (filed) — source
2. Conference Committee Report, #4338, House Adopted, Senate Adopted (committee substitute) — source
3. HB238 Act (committee substitute) — source
4. HB238 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. HB238 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
6. House Floor Amendment, #2336, McFarland, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Committee Amendment, #2160, R&F, Draft (committee substitute) — source
8. Senate Committee Amendment, #2205, R&F, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. HB238 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• ADOPT (#941) — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#814) — 95–0 (pass) · lower
• ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1212) — 100–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#527) — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#302) — 95–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jack McFarland — primary (person)
• Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
• Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
• Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
• Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
• Brian Glorioso — cosponsor (person)
• Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
• Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
• Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
• Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
• Emily Chenevert — cosponsor (person)
• Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
• Jason Dewitt — cosponsor (person)
• Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
• Jerome Zeringue — cosponsor (person)
• John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
• Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
• Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
• Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Laurie Schlegel — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Melerine — cosponsor (person)
• Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
• Phillip Tarver — cosponsor (person)
• Rashid Young — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
• Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)
• Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
• Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
• Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
• Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-06-20 Effective date: 06/20/2025.
• 2025-06-20 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 349. became-law, executive-signature
• 2025-06-12 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2025-06-12 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2025-06-12 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2025-06-11 Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
• 2025-06-11 Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
• 2025-06-11 Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
• 2025-06-11 Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 100, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
• 2025-06-11 Rules suspended.
• 2025-06-11 Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules.
• 2025-06-10 Conference committee report received.
• 2025-06-09 Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
• 2025-06-09 Senate conference committee members appointed: Foil, Mizell, and Womack.
• 2025-06-04 Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
• 2025-06-04 House conferees appointed: McFarland, Emerson, and Chenevert.
• 2025-06-03 Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
• 2025-06-03 Read by title, roll called, yeas 95, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
• 2025-06-02 Scheduled for concurrence on 06/03/2025.
• 2025-06-02 Received from the Senate with amendments. receipt
• 2025-06-01 The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2025-05-29 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2025-05-28 Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2025-05-27 Reported with amendments. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-13 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-05-12 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2025-05-08 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2025-05-06 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/08/2025.
• 2025-05-06 Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2025-05-05 Reported favorably (11-0). committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-14 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. referral-committee
• 2025-04-01 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. referral-committee
• 2025-04-01 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5fdeb02a-1f50-4541-8b4e-08bcb4acb776. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).