republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2025/hb-37.md

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Bill	CONTRACTS: Establishes a duty of care for online platforms who contract with minors	CONTRACTS: Establishes a duty of care for online platforms who contract with minors	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2025	HB 37	Louisiana HB 37 (2025)	bill		enacted	Laurie Schlegel	12	22	4	2025-03-06	2025-06-11	openstates	ocd-bill/374dfb59-5903-49ee-8d8f-b967e7d188e2	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247923	0a7db26f3e63b5b0969925a379e89b9d0b04fb94ad33f9f3b21c22dfbf818276	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 37 (2025) — CONTRACTS: Establishes a duty of care for online platforms who contract with minors

Version chain

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

1. HB37 Original (filed) — source
2. HB37 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. HB37 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB37 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #1698, CL&P, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #1755, CL&P, Draft (committee substitute) — source
7. House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1096, Horton, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. Senate Committee Amendment, #2261, JUDA, Draft (committee substitute) — source
9. Senate Committee Amendment, #2302, JUDA, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
10. Senate Floor Amendment, #2492, Mizell, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
11. Senate Floor Amendment, #2632, Miller, G., Adopted (committee substitute) — source
12. HB37 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#212) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#867) — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• CO-AUTHORS (#563) — 5–0 (fail) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#562) — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Laurie Schlegel — primary (person)
• Annie Spell — cosponsor (person)
• Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
• Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
• Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
• Brian Glorioso — cosponsor (person)
• Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
• Chad Boyer — cosponsor (person)
• Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
• Christopher Turner — cosponsor (person)
• Daryl Deshotel — cosponsor (person)
• Debbie Villio — cosponsor (person)
• Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
• Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
• Emily Chenevert — cosponsor (person)
• Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
• Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
• Jacob Landry — cosponsor (person)
• Jerome Zeringue — cosponsor (person)
• John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
• Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
• Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
• Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
• Kimberly Coates — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Neil Riser — cosponsor (person)
• Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
• Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
• Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
• Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
• Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
• Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
• Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
• Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
• Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (person)
• Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
• Vincent Cox III — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-06-11 Effective date: 06/01/2026.
• 2025-06-11 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 236. became-law, executive-signature
• 2025-06-09 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2025-06-08 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2025-06-08 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2025-06-04 Read by title, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
• 2025-06-03 Scheduled for concurrence on 06/04/2025.
• 2025-06-02 Received from the Senate with amendments. receipt
• 2025-06-02 Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2025-06-01 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2025-06-01 Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2025-05-29 Reported with amendments. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-08 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-05-07 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2025-05-06 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2025-05-05 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/06/2025.
• 2025-04-29 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2025-04-28 Reported with amendments (11-0). committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-14 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. referral-committee
• 2025-03-07 First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/7/2025.
• 2025-03-06 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. referral-committee
• 2025-03-06 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/374dfb59-5903-49ee-8d8f-b967e7d188e2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).