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type: "Bill"
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title: "CONTRACTS: Establishes a duty of care for online platforms who contract with minors"
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description: "CONTRACTS: Establishes a duty of care for online platforms who contract with minors"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
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legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
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session: "2025"
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identifier: "HB 37"
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citation: "Louisiana HB 37 (2025)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Laurie Schlegel"]
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version_count: 12
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action_count: 22
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vote_count: 4
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first_action: "2025-03-06"
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last_action: "2025-06-11"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/374dfb59-5903-49ee-8d8f-b967e7d188e2"
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source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247923"
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source_hash: "0a7db26f3e63b5b0969925a379e89b9d0b04fb94ad33f9f3b21c22dfbf818276"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
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---
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# Louisiana HB 37 (2025) — CONTRACTS: Establishes a duty of care for online platforms who contract with minors
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **HB37 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1395633)
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2. **HB37 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425492)
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3. **HB37 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409061)
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4. **HB37 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411978)
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5. **House Committee Amendment, #1698, CL&P, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408978)
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6. **House Committee Amendment, #1755, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408783)
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7. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1096, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410211)
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8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2261, JUDA, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418243)
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9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2302, JUDA, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418512)
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10. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2492, Mizell, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419656)
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11. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2632, Miller, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420489)
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12. **HB37 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422187)
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## Votes
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- FINAL PASSAGE (#212) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
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- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#867) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
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- CO-AUTHORS (#563) — **5–0** (fail) · upper
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- FINAL PASSAGE (#562) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Laurie Schlegel — primary (person)
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- Annie Spell — cosponsor (person)
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- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
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- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
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- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
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- Brian Glorioso — cosponsor (person)
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- Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
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- Chad Boyer — cosponsor (person)
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- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
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- Christopher Turner — cosponsor (person)
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- Daryl Deshotel — cosponsor (person)
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- Debbie Villio — cosponsor (person)
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- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
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- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
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- Emily Chenevert — cosponsor (person)
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- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
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- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
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- Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
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- Jacob Landry — cosponsor (person)
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- Jerome Zeringue — cosponsor (person)
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- John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
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- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
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- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
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- Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
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- Kimberly Coates — cosponsor (person)
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- Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
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- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
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- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
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- Neil Riser — cosponsor (person)
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- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
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- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
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- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
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- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
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- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
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- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
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- Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)
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- Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
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- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
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- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
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- Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (person)
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- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
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- Vincent Cox III — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-06-11** Effective date: 06/01/2026.
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- **2025-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 236. `became-law, executive-signature`
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- **2025-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
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- **2025-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate.
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- **2025-06-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
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- **2025-06-04** Read by title, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
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- **2025-06-03** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/04/2025.
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- **2025-06-02** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
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- **2025-06-02** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
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- **2025-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
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- **2025-06-01** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
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- **2025-05-29** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-05-08** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2025-05-07** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
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- **2025-05-06** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
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- **2025-05-05** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/06/2025.
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- **2025-04-29** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
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- **2025-04-28** Reported with amendments (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-07** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/7/2025.
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- **2025-03-06** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-06** Prefiled. `filing`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/374dfb59-5903-49ee-8d8f-b967e7d188e2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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