Fabio
76 lines
4.2 KiB
Markdown
76 lines
4.2 KiB
Markdown
---
|
||
type: "Bill"
|
||
title: "CORONERS: Authorizes the coroner to issue a permit for cremation after completion of coroner's investigation of death when under suspicious circumstances or the reasonable probability of the commission of a crime. (8/1/20)"
|
||
description: "CORONERS: Authorizes the coroner to issue a permit for cremation after completion of coroner's investigation of death when under suspicious circumstances or the reasonable probability of the commission of a crime. (8/1/20)"
|
||
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
|
||
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
|
||
session: "2020"
|
||
identifier: "SB 137"
|
||
citation: "Louisiana SB 137 (2020)"
|
||
classification: ["bill"]
|
||
subjects: []
|
||
status: "enacted"
|
||
primary_sponsors: ["Franklin J. Foil"]
|
||
version_count: 5
|
||
action_count: 16
|
||
vote_count: 2
|
||
first_action: "2020-02-25"
|
||
last_action: "2020-06-09"
|
||
source: "openstates"
|
||
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a99080f0-7578-43ba-ac4c-b6ccddfbbb1b"
|
||
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237741"
|
||
source_hash: "156e8f8bb057b0657430b4f764ef55eb649f7ce7bb962efaa34a37a75a3342d9"
|
||
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 137 (2020) — CORONERS: Authorizes the coroner to issue a permit for cremation after completion of coroner's investigation of death when under suspicious circumstances or the reasonable probability of the commission of a crime. (8/1/20)
|
||
|
||
## Version chain
|
||
|
||
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
|
||
|
||
1. **SB137 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1159335)
|
||
2. **SB137 Act 113** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1181339)
|
||
3. **SB137 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169705)
|
||
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #968, JUDB, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169396)
|
||
5. **SB137 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177004)
|
||
|
||
## Votes
|
||
|
||
- FINAL PASSAGE (#100) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
|
||
- FINAL PASSAGE (#520) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
|
||
|
||
## Sponsors
|
||
|
||
- Franklin J. Foil — primary (person)
|
||
|
||
## Timeline
|
||
|
||
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
|
||
|
||
- **2020-06-09** Effective date 8/1/2020.
|
||
- **2020-06-09** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 113. `executive-signature`
|
||
- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
|
||
- **2020-05-31** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
|
||
- **2020-05-29** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
|
||
- **2020-05-28** Received from the House without amendments.
|
||
- **2020-05-28** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
|
||
- **2020-05-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/28/20.
|
||
- **2020-05-22** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
|
||
- **2020-05-21** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
|
||
- **2020-05-20** Reported favorably (12-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
|
||
- **2020-05-13** Received in the House from the Senate, rules suspended, read by title, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
|
||
- **2020-05-11** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
|
||
- **2020-05-07** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Read by title; Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
|
||
- **2020-03-09** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
|
||
- **2020-02-25** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `filing, referral-committee`
|
||
|
||
## Source
|
||
|
||
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a99080f0-7578-43ba-ac4c-b6ccddfbbb1b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
|
||
|