republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2025/hb-371.md

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Bill	RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS: Provides relative to the free exercise of religion	RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS: Provides relative to the free exercise of religion	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2025	HB 371	Louisiana HB 371 (2025)	bill		enacted	Beryl Amedee	15	38	5	2025-04-03	2025-06-20	openstates	ocd-bill/f788ef7e-55c3-4f2d-9d75-d95ee2333b6a	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248358	2feb33db6503d6d8462221ce0d84ba77e1196f15e6a791815821a2753ebe262b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 371 (2025) — RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS: Provides relative to the free exercise of religion

Version chain

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

1. HB371 Original (filed) — source
2. Conference Committee Report, #4281, House Adopted, Senate Adopted (committee substitute) — source
3. HB371 Act (committee substitute) — source
4. HB371 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. HB371 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #2176, CL&P, Draft (committee substitute) — source
7. House Committee Amendment, #2255, CL&P, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. House Committee Amendment, #2267, CL&P, Draft (committee substitute) — source
9. House Floor Amendment, #2462, Amedee, Withdrawn (committee substitute) — source
10. House Floor Amendment, #2951, Amedee, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
11. Senate Committee Amendment, #2686, EDUC, Draft (committee substitute) — source
12. Senate Committee Amendment, #2878, EDUC, Draft (committee substitute) — source
13. Senate Committee Amendment, #2907, EDUC, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
14. Senate Floor Amendment, #3032, Edmonds, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
15. HB371 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• ADOPT (#971) — 30–5 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#415) — 79–9 (pass) · lower
• ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1204) — 64–16 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#707) — 33–5 (pass) · upper
• REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1002) — 97–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Beryl Amedee — primary (person)
• Brian Glorioso — cosponsor (person)
• Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
• Danny McCormick — cosponsor (person)
• Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
• Emily Chenevert — cosponsor (person)
• Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
• John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
• Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
• Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
• Lauren Ventrella — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
• Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
• Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
• Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
• Phillip Tarver — cosponsor (person)
• R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
• Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
• Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)
• Shane Mack — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
• Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
• Valarie Hodges — cosponsor (person)
• Vincent Cox III — 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. 358. became-law, executive-signature
• 2025-06-16 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
• 2025-06-12 Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
• 2025-06-12 Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 30 yeas and 5 nays.
• 2025-06-11 Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
• 2025-06-11 Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 64, nays 16. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
• 2025-06-11 Rules suspended.
• 2025-06-11 Conference committee report received.
• 2025-06-11 Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules.
• 2025-06-11 Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
• 2025-06-10 Senate conference committee members appointed: Edmonds, Hodges, and Mizell.
• 2025-06-10 Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
• 2025-06-10 House conferees appointed: Amedee, Muscarello, and Crews.
• 2025-06-09 Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
• 2025-06-09 Read by title, roll called, yeas 97, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
• 2025-06-08 Scheduled for concurrence on 06/09/2025.
• 2025-06-08 Received from the Senate with amendments. receipt
• 2025-06-08 Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 5 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2025-06-04 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2025-06-04 Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-06-02 Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Education.
• 2025-06-02 Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
• 2025-05-20 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-05-19 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2025-05-14 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 79, nays 9. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2025-05-14 Called from the calendar.
• 2025-05-12 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/14/2025.
• 2025-05-12 Notice given.
• 2025-05-12 Read by title, returned to the calendar.
• 2025-05-08 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/12/2025.
• 2025-05-07 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2025-05-06 Reported with amendments (12-0). committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-14 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. referral-committee
• 2025-04-03 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. referral-committee
• 2025-04-03 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f788ef7e-55c3-4f2d-9d75-d95ee2333b6a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).