republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2025/hb-531.md

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Bill	NURSES: Provides for forensic medical examinations of sexual assault survivors	NURSES: Provides for forensic medical examinations of sexual assault survivors	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2025	HB 531	Louisiana HB 531 (2025)	bill		enacted	C. Travis Johnson	8	20	4	2025-04-04	2025-06-11	openstates	ocd-bill/b33a686c-013f-4210-a0dd-619d8b4eb9a3	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248563	263a739274ff462a983279a03476cdedcb274a8717eeb07b8a7fbb0ac41b5ca8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 531 (2025) — NURSES: Provides for forensic medical examinations of sexual assault survivors

Version chain

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

1. HB531 Original (filed) — source
2. HB531 Act 289 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB531 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. House Committee Amendment, #2498, H&W, Draft (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #2852, H&W, Draft (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #2863, H&W, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Floor Amendment, #3049, Mizell, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. HB531 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1007) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#720) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#490) — 95–0 (pass) · lower
• CO-AUTHORS (#721) — 6–0 (fail) · upper

Sponsors

• C. Travis Johnson — primary (person)
• Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
• Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
• Annie Spell — cosponsor (person)
• Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
• Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
• Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
• C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
• Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
• Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
• Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
• John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
• Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
• Katrina Jackson-Andrews — cosponsor (person)
• Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
• Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
• Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
• Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
• Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)
• Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-06-11 Effective date: 08/01/2025.
• 2025-06-11 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 289. became-law, executive-signature
• 2025-06-10 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2025-06-10 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2025-06-09 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2025-06-09 Read by title, roll called, yeas 97, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
• 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 38 yeas and 0 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 favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-21 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-05-20 Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2025-05-20 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2025-05-19 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/20/2025.
• 2025-05-15 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2025-05-14 Reported with amendments (11-0). committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-14 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. referral-committee
• 2025-04-04 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. referral-committee
• 2025-04-04 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b33a686c-013f-4210-a0dd-619d8b4eb9a3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).