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+type: "Bill"
+title: "SCHOOLS/EMPLOYEES: Provides for changing the job title of school guidance counselor to school counselor"
+description: "SCHOOLS/EMPLOYEES: Provides for changing the job title of school guidance counselor to school counselor"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 156"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 156 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Barbara Reich Freiberg"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-03-19"
+last_action: "2021-06-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/30f906ff-fbab-406b-b091-0035569c0493"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239968"
+source_hash: "b6c94e83e23fed10e192d7882df0f39f4a17649128d0006418e9d13b5f9fc42c"
+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 156 (2021) — SCHOOLS/EMPLOYEES: Provides for changing the job title of school guidance counselor to school counselor
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB156 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1205182)
+2. **HB156 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235469)
+3. **HB156 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218341)
+4. **HB156 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1233065)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#207) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#807) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Barbara Reich Freiberg — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-06-15** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
+- **2021-06-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 275. `executive-signature`
+- **2021-06-11** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2021-06-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2021-06-07** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2021-06-06** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2021-06-03** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2021-06-02** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2021-05-06** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-05-05** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2021-05-04** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2021-04-29** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/04/2021.
+- **2021-04-29** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2021-04-28** Reported favorably (10-0).
+- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-19** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/19/2021.
+- **2021-03-19** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-19** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/30f906ff-fbab-406b-b091-0035569c0493`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+