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+type: "Bill"
+title: "EARLY CHILDHOOD: Recreates the Early Childhood Care and Education Commission"
+description: "EARLY CHILDHOOD: Recreates the Early Childhood Care and Education Commission"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 251"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 251 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Stephanie Hilferty"]
+version_count: 9
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2020-02-26"
+last_action: "2020-06-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/edc964e3-7d49-49fb-9e7c-be30ca80e7d8"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237803"
+source_hash: "6e64a06536133b424ed6b7d7c809f0b2dc2f6a5639c1376e470f5f83e6c43c49"
+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 251 (2020) — EARLY CHILDHOOD: Recreates the Early Childhood Care and Education Commission
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB251 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1159974)
+2. **HB251 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1181913)
+3. **HB251 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169595)
+4. **HB251 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1173298)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #1049, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1164807)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #1502, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169552)
+7. **House Floor Amendment, #1615, Hilferty, Proposed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170175)
+8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1946, Mizell, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1175805)
+9. **HB251 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1178334)
+
+## Votes
+
+- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#649) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#362) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- HB 251 BY HILFERTY (#72) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Stephanie Hilferty — primary (person)
+- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
+- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
+- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
+- Chad Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
+- Clay Schexnayder — cosponsor (person)
+- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
+- Daryl Deshotel — cosponsor (person)
+- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
+- Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
+- Frederick D. Jones — cosponsor (person)
+- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeremy LaCombe — cosponsor (person)
+- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
+- John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph Marino — cosponsor (person)
+- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
+- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
+- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
+- Les Farnum — cosponsor (person)
+- Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
+- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
+- Mandie Landry — cosponsor (person)
+- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark Wright — cosponsor (person)
+- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
+- Paula Davis — cosponsor (person)
+- Polly Thomas — cosponsor (person)
+- Randal L. Gaines — cosponsor (person)
+- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
+- Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
+- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
+- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
+- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
+- Scott McKnight — cosponsor (person)
+- Sherman Q. Mack — cosponsor (person)
+- Thomas Pressly — cosponsor (person)
+- Timothy P. Kerner — cosponsor (person)
+- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
+- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
+- Vincent J. St. Blanc , III — cosponsor (person)
+- Wayne McMahen — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-06-11** Effective date: See Act.
+- **2020-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 180. `executive-signature`
+- **2020-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2020-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2020-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 98, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
+- **2020-05-27** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/20.
+- **2020-05-27** Received from the Senate with amendments.
+- **2020-05-26** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2020-05-22** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2020-05-21** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2020-05-18** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-05-15** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2020-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/20.
+- **2020-05-13** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2020-05-07** Reported with amendments (12-0).
+- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-26** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-26** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/edc964e3-7d49-49fb-9e7c-be30ca80e7d8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+