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LouisianaHB 11982026 Regular SessionHouse

CHILDREN/CUSTODY: Provides relative to child custody

Sponsored By: Beryl Amedée (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Judiciary ACivil Law and Procedure

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Bill Overview

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1 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.

New safeguards for Louisiana custody disputes

The law makes agreements to arbitrate child custody or visitation void and unenforceable. Louisiana courts cannot recognize or enforce custody or visitation arbitration awards. Courts may reject a foreign country's custody law when it violates basic human rights or conflicts with Louisiana public policy. That conflict includes failing to protect parents’ constitutional rights, including equal protection, due process, and religious freedom, or not using the child's best interests as the custody standard. It also includes failing to consider past domestic violence and its likely recurrence, or whether custody or visitation risks substantial harm to the child.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Beryl Amedée

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 130 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/21/2026

Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 35 • No: 0

House vote • 4/28/2026

Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 89 • No: 0

House vote • 4/22/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 6 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 582.

    5/29/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    5/29/2026House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/26/2026House

  4. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/25/2026House

  5. Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.

    5/25/2026House

  6. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/25/2026Senate

  7. Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/21/2026Senate

  8. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.

    5/14/2026Senate

  9. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    5/13/2026Senate

  10. Reported favorably.

    5/12/2026Senate

  11. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A.

    5/4/2026Senate

  12. Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

    4/29/2026Senate

  13. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/28/2026House

  14. Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.

    4/23/2026House

  15. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/28/2026.

    4/23/2026House

  16. Reported favorably (6-0).

    4/22/2026House

  17. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure.

    4/1/2026House

  18. Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

    3/31/2026House

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