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type: "Bill"
title: "HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: Provides for in vitro fertilization. (8/1/25)"
description: "HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: Provides for in vitro fertilization. (8/1/25)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 156"
citation: "Louisiana SB 156 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Thomas Pressly"]
version_count: 18
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-04-04"
last_action: "2025-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/64b555d9-6fd5-46fd-8d21-ef838bc75bab"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248573"
source_hash: "fc411bd7d84479616ec16d67147f1fd7599120c42904917bcc41a72aa30664f9"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["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](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1404183)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #2578, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413306)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #2732, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414049)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #2768, CL&P, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414217)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #2970, Davis, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415476)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #3466, Davis, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417925)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #3477, Amedee, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417959)
8. **House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1699, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414526)
9. **SB156 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424990)
10. **SB156 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407533)
11. **SB156 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410059)
12. **Senate Committee Amendment, #670, JUDA, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406791)
13. **Senate Committee Amendment, #714, JUDA, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407046)
14. **Senate Committee Amendment, #730, JUDA, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407168)
15. **Senate Committee Amendment, #732, JUDA, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407222)
16. **Senate Committee Amendment, #758, JUDA, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407358)
17. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #871, Miller, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408342)
18. **SB156 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419029)
## Votes
- CONCUR (#414) — **307** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#107) — **345** (pass) · upper
- AMENDMENT # 3477 BY AMEDEE, MOTION TO ADOPT (#626) — **1573** (fail) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#627) — **7820** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/64b555d9-6fd5-46fd-8d21-ef838bc75bab`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).