republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2025/sb-41.md

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Bill	CHILDREN: Provides relative to child welfare. (See Act) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)	CHILDREN: Provides relative to child welfare. (See Act) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2025	SB 41	Louisiana SB 41 (2025)	bill		enacted	Regina Ashford Barrow	18	22	4	2025-03-31	2025-06-20	openstates	ocd-bill/9183f2ef-76ef-4f94-972e-e29a08c07a5a	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248096	53f6657c9701714fd698aa82e4bcdbf8c15da24480e127844bc8dbb2531e3249	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana SB 41 (2025) — CHILDREN: Provides relative to child welfare. (See Act) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

Version chain

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

1. SB41 Original (filed) — source
2. House Committee Amendment, #3900, H&W, Draft (committee substitute) — source
3. House Committee Amendment, #3926, H&W, Draft (committee substitute) — source
4. House Committee Amendment, #3972, H&W, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
5. House Floor Amendment, #4183, Carver, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. SB41 Act 409 (committee substitute) — source
7. SB41 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
8. SB41 Re-Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
9. SB41 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
10. Senate Committee Amendment, #1268, FNCE, Draft (committee substitute) — source
11. Senate Committee Amendment, #1528, FNCE, Draft (committee substitute) — source
12. Senate Committee Amendment, #1544, FNCE, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
13. Senate Committee Amendment, #428, H&W, Draft (committee substitute) — source
14. Senate Committee Amendment, #700, H&W, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
15. Senate Floor Amendment, #1703, Barrow, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
16. Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1637, Miller, G., Adopted (committee substitute) — source
17. Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #888, Miller, G., Proposed (committee substitute) — source
18. SB41 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#950) — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR (#882) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#252) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• CO-AUTHORS (#253) — 12–0 (fail) · upper

Sponsors

• Regina Ashford Barrow — primary (person)
• Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
• Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
• Annie Spell — cosponsor (person)
• Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
• Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
• C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
• Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
• Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
• Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
• Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
• Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
• Eddie Lambert — cosponsor (person)
• Emily Chenevert — cosponsor (person)
• Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
• Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
• Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
• Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
• Jeremy Stine — cosponsor (person)
• Jessica Domangue — cosponsor (person)
• John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
• Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
• Katrina Jackson-Andrews — cosponsor (person)
• Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
• Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
• Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
• Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick Connick — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
• Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
• Shaun Mena — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie Hilferty — cosponsor (person)
• Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)
• Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
• Tammy Phelps — cosponsor (person)
• Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
• Valarie Hodges — cosponsor (person)
• Wayne McMahen — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-06-20 Effective date 8/1/2025.
• 2025-06-20 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 409. became-law, executive-signature
• 2025-06-11 Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. executive-receipt
• 2025-06-11 Signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2025-06-11 Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. enrolled
• 2025-06-10 Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays.
• 2025-06-08 Received from the House with amendments. receipt
• 2025-06-08 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2025-06-04 Scheduled for floor debate on 06/08/2025.
• 2025-06-04 Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2025-06-04 Discharged from the Committee on Appropriations.
• 2025-06-04 Read by title, amended, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
• 2025-06-03 Reported with amendments (14-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-20 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. referral-committee
• 2025-05-19 Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
• 2025-05-14 Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays; ordered re-reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2025-05-13 Read by title; Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered reengrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2025-05-12 Rules suspended. Reported with amendments. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-28 Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted; ordered engrossed and recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
• 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 Health and Welfare. referral-committee
• 2025-03-31 Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. filing, referral-committee

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9183f2ef-76ef-4f94-972e-e29a08c07a5a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).