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type: "Bill"
title: "CHILDREN: Creates the Louisiana Pregnancy and Baby Care Initiative. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE FF EX See Note)"
description: "CHILDREN: Creates the Louisiana Pregnancy and Baby Care Initiative. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE FF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 278"
citation: "Louisiana SB 278 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Katrina Jackson-Andrews"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-05-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/06477ad4-e2c1-4406-a578-ad5676233df8"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246545"
source_hash: "44b4e841cb62f2c583e1b81b68a648f132c93bc0dcc3925a6d5159b17b433651"
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 278 (2024) — CHILDREN: Creates the Louisiana Pregnancy and Baby Care Initiative. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE FF EX See Note)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **SB278 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352597)
2. **SB278 Act 329** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380802)
3. **SB278 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356240)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1005, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356091)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1011, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356100)
6. **SB278 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377738)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1285) — **971** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#156) — **343** (pass) · upper
- CO-AUTHORS (#157) — **110** (fail) · upper
## Sponsors
- Katrina Jackson-Andrews — primary (person)
- Adam Bass — cosponsor (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
- Brian Glorioso — cosponsor (person)
- C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Caleb Kleinpeter — cosponsor (person)
- Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Emily Chenevert — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
- Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Dewitt — cosponsor (person)
- Jerome Zeringue — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
- Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
- Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
- Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly Coates — cosponsor (person)
- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
- Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Shane Mack — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Hilferty — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (person)
- Troy Hebert — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent Cox III — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-05-28** Effective date 5/28/2024.
- **2024-05-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 329. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-28** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/23/2024. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-23** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-05-23** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-22** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 1. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/2024.
- **2024-05-15** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-14** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-05-13** Reported favorably (17-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-01** Read by title, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2024-04-30** Reported favorably (9-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-02** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-27** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-03-26** Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 3 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-03-25** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-03-20** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/06477ad4-e2c1-4406-a578-ad5676233df8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).