republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2025/sb-156.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	HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: Provides for in vitro fertilization. (8/1/25)	HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: Provides for in vitro fertilization. (8/1/25)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2025	SB 156	Louisiana SB 156 (2025)	bill		enacted	Thomas Pressly	18	19	4	2025-04-04	2025-06-08	openstates	ocd-bill/64b555d9-6fd5-46fd-8d21-ef838bc75bab	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248573	fc411bd7d84479616ec16d67147f1fd7599120c42904917bcc41a72aa30664f9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana SB 156 (2025) — HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: Provides for in vitro fertilization. (8/1/25)

Version chain

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

1. SB156 Original (filed) — source
2. House Committee Amendment, #2578, CL&P, Draft (committee substitute) — source
3. House Committee Amendment, #2732, CL&P, Draft (committee substitute) — source
4. House Committee Amendment, #2768, CL&P, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
5. House Floor Amendment, #2970, Davis, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. House Floor Amendment, #3466, Davis, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. House Floor Amendment, #3477, Amedee, Rejected (committee substitute) — source
8. House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1699, BUREAU, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. SB156 Act (committee substitute) — source
10. SB156 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
11. SB156 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
12. Senate Committee Amendment, #670, JUDA, Draft (committee substitute) — source
13. Senate Committee Amendment, #714, JUDA, Draft (committee substitute) — source
14. Senate Committee Amendment, #730, JUDA, Draft (committee substitute) — source
15. Senate Committee Amendment, #732, JUDA, Draft (committee substitute) — source
16. Senate Committee Amendment, #758, JUDA, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
17. Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #871, Miller, G., Adopted (committee substitute) — source
18. SB156 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• CONCUR (#414) — 30–7 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#107) — 34–5 (pass) · upper
• AMENDMENT # 3477 BY AMEDEE, MOTION TO ADOPT (#626) — 15–73 (fail) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#627) — 78–20 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Thomas Pressly — primary (person)
• Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
• Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
• Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
• Chad Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
• Dustin Miller — cosponsor (person)
• Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
• Foy Gadberry — cosponsor (person)
• Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
• Jeremy LaCombe — cosponsor (person)
• Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
• Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
• Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Melerine — cosponsor (person)
• Paula Davis — cosponsor (person)
• R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
• Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)
• Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
• Terry Landry Jr — cosponsor (person)
• Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-06-08 Effective date 8/1/2025.
• 2025-06-08 Becomes Act No. 116 without the Governor's signature. became-law
• 2025-06-01 Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/30/2025. executive-receipt
• 2025-05-29 Signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2025-05-29 Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. enrolled
• 2025-05-28 Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 30 yeas and 7 nays.
• 2025-05-27 Received from the House with amendments. receipt
• 2025-05-27 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 78, nays 20. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2025-05-22 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/27/2025.
• 2025-05-15 Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2025-05-14 Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments.
• 2025-05-13 Reported with amendments (8-4). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-05 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. referral-committee
• 2025-04-30 Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
• 2025-04-29 Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 5 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2025-04-28 Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2025-04-23 Reported with amendments. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-14 Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. referral-committee
• 2025-04-04 Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. filing, referral-committee

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/64b555d9-6fd5-46fd-8d21-ef838bc75bab. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).