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+type: "Bill"
+title: "SCHOOLS/CHOICE: Provides relative to public school choice (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)"
+description: "SCHOOLS/CHOICE: Provides relative to public school choice (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 211"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 211 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Mark Wright"]
+version_count: 9
+action_count: 24
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2021-03-25"
+last_action: "2021-06-21"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/432c36e6-09e3-4c98-91c6-0bc2bc1fb831"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240050"
+source_hash: "9ffea5bc35683966b2468312e3ab119f54c69eaeb290a6b7df05a6592425b8d2"
+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 211 (2021) — SCHOOLS/CHOICE: Provides relative to public school choice (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB211 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1206685)
+2. **HB211 Act 420** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235921)
+3. **HB211 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218579)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #1866, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218463)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #983, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1209626)
+6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2322, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1226384)
+7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3321, Mizell, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231455)
+8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3534, White, B, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232257)
+9. **HB211 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1233446)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#216) — **60–39** (pass) · lower
+- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1097) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#841) — **35–1** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Mark Wright — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-06-21** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
+- **2021-06-21** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 420. `executive-signature`
+- **2021-06-11** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2021-06-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2021-06-08** Read by title, roll called, yeas 98, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
+- **2021-06-07** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/08/2021.
+- **2021-06-07** Received from the Senate with amendments.
+- **2021-06-07** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2021-05-25** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2021-05-24** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2021-05-20** Reported favorably.
+- **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 60, nays 39. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2021-05-04** Called from the calendar.
+- **2021-05-04** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
+- **2021-04-29** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/04/2021.
+- **2021-04-29** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2021-04-28** Reported with amendments (10-0).
+- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-26** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/26/2021.
+- **2021-03-25** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-25** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/432c36e6-09e3-4c98-91c6-0bc2bc1fb831`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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