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LouisianaHB 9332026 Regular SessionHouse

RECORDS/RECORDATION: Provides for commemorative birth certificates (EN +$125,000 SG RV See Note)

Sponsored By: Charles Owen (Republican)

Signed by Governor

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

New commemorative birth certificates cost $50

You can request a commemorative birth certificate for a birth recorded in Louisiana's Vital Records Registry. Each certificate costs $50. It includes safeguards against fraud and has the same legal proof status as a certified birth certificate. It is suitable for display and may include the state seal and governor's signature. Of each fee, $20 pays for production and administration, and $30 goes to the Office on Women's Health and Community Health.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Charles Owen

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

  • Beryl Amedée

    Republican • House

  • Beth Anne Billings

    Republican • House

  • Brian Leonard Glorioso

    Republican • House

  • Chasity Martinez

    Democratic • House

  • Roy Daryl Adams

    Democratic • House

  • Dennis Bamburg Jr.

    Republican • House

  • Dixon Wallace McMakin

    Republican • House

  • Dodie Horton

    Republican • House

  • Emily Chenevert

    Republican • House

  • Jeremy LaCombe

    Republican • House

  • John R. Illg Jr.

    Republican • House

  • Kim Carver

    Republican • House

  • Michael Robert Bayham Jr.

    Republican • House

  • Mike Johnson

    Republican • House

  • Peter F. Egan Sr.

    Republican • House

  • Raymond J. Crews

    Republican • House

  • Reese "Skip" Broussard

    Republican • House

  • Shane Mack

    Republican • House

  • Stephanie H. Berault

    Republican • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 143 • 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 • 4/9/2026

Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 97 • No: 0

House vote • 4/1/2026

Reported with amendments

Yes: 11 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

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

    6/12/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    6/12/2026House

  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.

    5/18/2026Senate

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

    5/14/2026Senate

  10. Reported favorably.

    5/13/2026Senate

  11. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.

    4/14/2026Senate

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

    4/13/2026Senate

  13. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/9/2026House

  14. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/09/2026.

    4/8/2026House

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

    4/7/2026House

  16. Reported with amendments (11-0).

    4/1/2026House

  17. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.

    3/9/2026House

  18. Prefiled.

    2/27/2026House

  19. Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.

    2/27/2026House

  20. First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.

    2/27/2026House

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