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+type: "Bill"
+title: "HOLIDAYS: Designates Juneteenth as a state holiday"
+description: "HOLIDAYS: Designates Juneteenth as a state holiday"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 554"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 554 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Larry Selders"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2021-04-02"
+last_action: "2021-06-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d4e818dc-0d82-4588-a52d-105beecdc6a5"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240516"
+source_hash: "c38d04d20bead23db6da665b7613b6d4fea2e03a6bb5f47ef03b75f1a5782b0c"
+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 554 (2021) — HOLIDAYS: Designates Juneteenth as a state holiday
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB554 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1211916)
+2. **HB554 Act 128** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1234786)
+3. **HB554 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1228850)
+4. **HB554 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1233067)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#929) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#935) — **87–0** (pass) · lower
+- CO-AUTHORS (#930) — **13–0** (fail) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Larry Selders — primary (person)
+- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
+- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
+- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
+- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
+- Daryl Deshotel — cosponsor (person)
+- Dustin Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
+- Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
+- Edward Ted James — cosponsor (person)
+- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
+- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Frederick D. Jones — cosponsor (person)
+- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
+- Gregory Tarver — cosponsor (person)
+- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
+- Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
+- Karen Carter Peterson — cosponsor (person)
+- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
+- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
+- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
+- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
+- Mandie Landry — cosponsor (person)
+- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
+- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
+- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
+- Randal L. Gaines — cosponsor (person)
+- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
+- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
+- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
+- Tammy Phelps — cosponsor (person)
+- Troy Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-06-10** Effective date: 08/.01/2021.
+- **2021-06-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 128. `executive-signature`
+- **2021-06-10** 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.
+- **2021-06-07** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2021-06-06** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2021-06-06** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2021-06-02** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-06-02** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 87, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2021-06-01** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/02/2021.
+- **2021-06-01** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2021-05-27** Reported favorably (12-0).
+- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021.
+- **2021-04-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-02** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d4e818dc-0d82-4588-a52d-105beecdc6a5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+