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type: "Bill"
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title: "CHILDREN/VISITATION RGTS: Provides relative to post-adoption visitation rights of grandparents"
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description: "CHILDREN/VISITATION RGTS: Provides relative to post-adoption visitation rights of grandparents"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
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legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
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session: "2023"
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identifier: "HB 194"
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citation: "Louisiana HB 194 (2023)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Francis C. Thompson"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 20
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2023-03-24"
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last_action: "2023-05-30"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/293e92e2-c9a2-4102-aede-20ffc5891f7f"
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source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244052"
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source_hash: "b0b9260c3c616022ca104cc661dea4c0a042dc1ab7442eca34bd195ac9b51d38"
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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 194 (2023) — CHILDREN/VISITATION RGTS: Provides relative to post-adoption visitation rights of grandparents
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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. **HB194 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1305133)
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2. **HB194 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328134)
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3. **HB194 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313407)
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4. **HB194 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1324103)
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## Votes
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- FINAL PASSAGE (#363) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
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- FINAL PASSAGE (#66) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Francis C. Thompson — primary (person)
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- Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
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- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
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- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
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- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
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- Valarie Hodges — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2023-05-30** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
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- **2023-05-30** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 16. `became-law, executive-signature`
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- **2023-05-24** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
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- **2023-05-23** Signed by the President of the Senate.
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- **2023-05-22** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
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- **2023-05-18** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
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- **2023-05-18** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
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- **2023-05-11** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
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- **2023-05-10** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
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- **2023-05-09** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-04-25** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2023-04-24** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
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- **2023-04-24** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
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- **2023-04-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/24/2023.
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- **2023-04-20** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
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- **2023-04-19** Reported favorably (14-0-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
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- **2023-03-24** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/24/2023.
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- **2023-03-24** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
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- **2023-03-24** 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/293e92e2-c9a2-4102-aede-20ffc5891f7f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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