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---
type: "Bill"
title: "CORONERS: Provides relative to cremation of bodies. (8/1/23)"
description: "CORONERS: Provides relative to cremation of bodies. (8/1/23)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 187"
citation: "Louisiana SB 187 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Caleb Kleinpeter"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 30
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-03-31"
last_action: "2023-06-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/286f5389-b95a-4f7b-afe4-a7580e069d28"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244599"
source_hash: "83be634036256f86c0bcfe3b5e23424912503785a51287339f7d5156b1e5a953"
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 187 (2023) — CORONERS: Provides relative to cremation of bodies. (8/1/23)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **SB187 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1309952)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #3024, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331961)
3. **House Floor Amendment, #4098, Jordan, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329999)
4. **SB187 Act 332** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332550)
5. **SB187 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320297)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1500, JUDB, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320065)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1525, JUDB, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320261)
8. **SB187 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332056)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#960) — **960** (pass) · lower
- REJECT (#912) — **360** (pass) · upper
- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1235) — **1010** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT (#1039) — **380** (pass) · upper
- SB 187 BY KLEINPETER (#306) — **380** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Caleb Kleinpeter — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-06-13** Effective date 8/1/2023.
- **2023-06-13** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 332. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-08** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-08** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-08** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2023-06-08** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2023-06-08** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2023-06-08** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2023-06-08** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 101, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2023-06-08** Rules suspended.
- **2023-06-08** Conference Committee report received.
- **2023-06-07** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2023-06-07** Senate conference committee members appointed: Kleinpeter, Smith, and Tarver.
- **2023-06-07** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2023-06-07** House conferees appointed: Jordan, Gaines, and DeVillier.
- **2023-06-07** Notice of Senate rejecting House amendments.
- **2023-06-06** Rules suspended. Amendments proposed by the House read and rejected by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2023-06-05** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-05** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-06-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/05/2023.
- **2023-05-31** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2023-05-25** Reported favorably (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-16** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-15** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2023-05-15** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-10** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2023-05-09** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-31** 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/286f5389-b95a-4f7b-afe4-a7580e069d28`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).