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type: "Bill"
title: "CONTRACTS: Establishes a duty of care for online platforms who contract with minors"
description: "CONTRACTS: Establishes a duty of care for online platforms who contract with minors"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 37"
citation: "Louisiana HB 37 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Laurie Schlegel"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 22
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-03-06"
last_action: "2025-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/374dfb59-5903-49ee-8d8f-b967e7d188e2"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247923"
source_hash: "0a7db26f3e63b5b0969925a379e89b9d0b04fb94ad33f9f3b21c22dfbf818276"
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 HB 37 (2025) — CONTRACTS: Establishes a duty of care for online platforms who contract with minors
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **HB37 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1395633)
2. **HB37 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425492)
3. **HB37 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409061)
4. **HB37 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411978)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1698, CL&P, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408978)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1755, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408783)
7. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1096, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410211)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2261, JUDA, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418243)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2302, JUDA, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418512)
10. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2492, Mizell, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419656)
11. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2632, Miller, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420489)
12. **HB37 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422187)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#212) — **990** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#867) — **960** (pass) · lower
- CO-AUTHORS (#563) — **50** (fail) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#562) — **380** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Laurie Schlegel — primary (person)
- Annie Spell — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- Brian Glorioso — cosponsor (person)
- Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
- Chad Boyer — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Christopher Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Deshotel — cosponsor (person)
- Debbie Villio — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Emily Chenevert — cosponsor (person)
- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
- Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
- Jacob Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Jerome Zeringue — cosponsor (person)
- John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
- Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly Coates — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Neil Riser — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
- Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent Cox III — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-06-11** Effective date: 06/01/2026.
- **2025-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 236. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-04** Read by title, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2025-06-03** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/04/2025.
- **2025-06-02** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **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`
- **2025-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-01** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-29** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-08** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-07** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **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`
- **2025-05-05** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/06/2025.
- **2025-04-29** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-28** Reported with amendments (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-07** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/7/2025.
- **2025-03-06** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-06** Prefiled. `filing`
## Source
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).