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+type: "Bill"
+title: "STUDENTS: Creates a literacy program for certain public school students (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
+description: "STUDENTS: Creates a literacy program for certain public school students (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 85"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 85 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Scott McKnight"]
+version_count: 14
+action_count: 25
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2021-03-09"
+last_action: "2021-06-21"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e479f9c7-92a2-475b-9e81-02be8a7882e4"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239880"
+source_hash: "100542aabb36466370220483a8c5d4ac4cf09715a9e54c1c7ee2bc5d25d21c05"
+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 85 (2021) — STUDENTS: Creates a literacy program for certain public school students (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB85 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1202888)
+2. **HB85 Act 415** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235916)
+3. **HB85 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216733)
+4. **HB85 Re-Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1225327)
+5. **HB85 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222730)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #1219, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214281)
+7. **House Committee Amendment, #1566, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216625)
+8. **House Committee Amendment, #2525, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222433)
+9. **House Committee Amendment, #2591, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222669)
+10. **House Floor Amendment, #2943, McKnight, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224654)
+11. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1907, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1223082)
+12. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3050, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230410)
+13. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3113, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230654)
+14. **HB85 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1233318)
+
+## Votes
+
+- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1090) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+- CO-AUTHORS (#806) — **30–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#472) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#805) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Scott McKnight — primary (person)
+- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
+- Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
+- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
+- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
+- Barrow Peacock — cosponsor (person)
+- Barry Ivey — cosponsor (person)
+- Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
+- Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
+- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
+- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
+- Christopher Turner — cosponsor (person)
+- Clay Schexnayder — cosponsor (person)
+- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
+- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
+- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
+- Dustin Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
+- Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
+- Edward Ted James — cosponsor (person)
+- Foy Gadberry — cosponsor (person)
+- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
+- Franklin J. Foil — 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)
+- Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
+- Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Rogers Pope — cosponsor (person)
+- Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
+- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
+- Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
+- Jerome Zeringue — cosponsor (person)
+- Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
+- John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph Orgeron — cosponsor (person)
+- Karen Carter Peterson — cosponsor (person)
+- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
+- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
+- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
+- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Frieman — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
+- Louie Bernard — cosponsor (person)
+- Mack Bodi White, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark Wright — cosponsor (person)
+- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
+- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick Connick — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)
+- Paula Davis — cosponsor (person)
+- Polly Thomas — cosponsor (person)
+- R. L. Bret Allain, II — cosponsor (person)
+- Randal L. Gaines — cosponsor (person)
+- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
+- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
+- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
+- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
+- Rick Ward, III — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert Mills — cosponsor (person)
+- Ronnie Johns — cosponsor (person)
+- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
+- Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)
+- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Timothy P. Kerner — cosponsor (person)
+- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
+- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
+- Vincent J. St. Blanc , III — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (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. 415. `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.
+- **2021-06-08** Read by title, roll called, yeas 99, 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.
+- **2021-06-06** Rules suspended. The amended bill was 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** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2021-06-02** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
+- **2021-06-02** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title; recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
+- **2021-05-19** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `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 94, 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, amended, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2021-05-10** Reported with amendments (19-0).
+- **2021-04-26** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
+- **2021-04-22** Reported with amendments (11-0).
+- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-12** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/12/2021.
+- **2021-03-09** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-09** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e479f9c7-92a2-475b-9e81-02be8a7882e4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+