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+type: "Bill"
+title: "EMPLOYMENT: Provides relative to employment discrimination (EN NO IMPACT LF RV See Note)"
+description: "EMPLOYMENT: Provides relative to employment discrimination (EN NO IMPACT LF RV See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 707"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 707 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Matthew Willard"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-05-10"
+last_action: "2021-06-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eb5712a1-7bb7-4f77-9824-1e71c4694c34"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240988"
+source_hash: "1d24e0af72eb933f3e78a94bba2634275ee109a9aa8880cf1031b30a955ca005"
+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 707 (2021) — EMPLOYMENT: Provides relative to employment discrimination (EN NO IMPACT LF RV See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB707 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222189)
+2. **HB707 Act 406** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235804)
+3. **HB707 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222492)
+4. **HB707 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1225412)
+5. **House Floor Amendment, #2985, Willard, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1225109)
+6. **HB707 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1233063)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#480) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#914) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Matthew Willard — primary (person)
+- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
+- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
+- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
+- Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
+- Edward Ted James — cosponsor (person)
+- Frederick D. Jones — cosponsor (person)
+- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
+- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
+- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
+- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
+- Randal L. Gaines — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
+- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
+- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-06-16** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
+- **2021-06-16** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 406. `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.
+- **2021-06-07** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 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.
+- **2021-05-19** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-05-18** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2021-05-17** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2021-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/17/2021.
+- **2021-05-11** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2021-05-10** Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 480 reported by the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations (11-0).
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eb5712a1-7bb7-4f77-9824-1e71c4694c34`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+