republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2025/hb-617.md

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Bill	CHILDREN/DCFS: Reorganizes the Department of Children and Family Services (EN NO IMPACT See Note)	CHILDREN/DCFS: Reorganizes the Department of Children and Family Services (EN NO IMPACT See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2025	HB 617	Louisiana HB 617 (2025)	bill		enacted	Kim Carver	11	28	4	2025-04-04	2025-06-20	openstates	ocd-bill/a6d76c76-7f6c-4de9-a55e-30c9753258ed	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248697	aa8f268ce95a0be39cae15e83e98e95a1b49b3fb3a94ecb30a3466f7a7b6db3b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 617 (2025) — CHILDREN/DCFS: Reorganizes the Department of Children and Family Services (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

Version chain

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

1. HB617 Original (filed) — source
2. HB617 Act 477 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB617 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB617 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #1364, H&G, Draft (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #1591, H&G, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. House Floor Amendment, #1815, Carver, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. Senate Committee Amendment, #2815, H&W, Draft (committee substitute) — source
9. Senate Committee Amendment, #2872, H&W, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
10. Senate Floor Amendment, #3038, McMath, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
11. HB617 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#538) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#809) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1146) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• CO-AUTHORS (#810) — 13–0 (fail) · upper

Sponsors

• Kim Carver — primary (person)
• Adam Bass — cosponsor (person)
• Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
• Annie Spell — cosponsor (person)
• Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
• Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
• Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
• Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
• Brach Myers — cosponsor (person)
• Brian Glorioso — cosponsor (person)
• Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
• Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
• Chad Boyer — cosponsor (person)
• Chance Henry — cosponsor (person)
• Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
• Dennis Bamburg Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Dixon McMakin — cosponsor (person)
• Emily Chenevert — cosponsor (person)
• Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
• Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
• Gregory A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
• Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
• Jacob Braud — cosponsor (person)
• Jeremy LaCombe — cosponsor (person)
• Jessica Domangue — cosponsor (person)
• Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
• John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
• Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
• Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
• Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
• Kimberly Coates — cosponsor (person)
• Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
• Laurie Schlegel — cosponsor (person)
• Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
• Mark Wright — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Melerine — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
• Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick Connick — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
• Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
• Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)
• Shane Mack — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie Hilferty — cosponsor (person)
• Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)
• Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
• Timothy P. Kerner — cosponsor (person)
• Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
• Troy Hebert — cosponsor (person)
• Vincent Cox III — cosponsor (person)
• William "Bill" Wheat , Jr. — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-06-20 Effective date: See Act.
• 2025-06-20 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 477. 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
• 2025-06-10 Read by title, roll called, yeas 98, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
• 2025-06-09 Scheduled for concurrence on 06/10/2025.
• 2025-06-09 Received from the Senate with amendments. receipt
• 2025-06-09 Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2025-06-09 Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
• 2025-06-08 Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
• 2025-06-08 Rules suspended.
• 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
• 2025-05-28 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-05-27 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2025-05-21 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2025-05-21 Called from the calendar.
• 2025-05-21 Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
• 2025-05-20 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/2025.
• 2025-05-20 Notice given.
• 2025-04-29 Read by title, returned to the calendar.
• 2025-04-28 Scheduled for floor debate on 04/29/2025.
• 2025-04-24 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2025-04-23 Reported with amendments (13-0). committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-14 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. referral-committee
• 2025-04-04 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. referral-committee
• 2025-04-04 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a6d76c76-7f6c-4de9-a55e-30c9753258ed. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).