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+type: "Bill"
+title: "GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION: Requires the playing or singing of the national anthem prior to certain athletic contests. (8/1/21)"
+description: "GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION: Requires the playing or singing of the national anthem prior to certain athletic contests. (8/1/21)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 124"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 124 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Sharon Hewitt"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2021-03-30"
+last_action: "2021-06-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c01f3ad0-eaf8-4c3d-8690-1e28a7e417a6"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240218"
+source_hash: "00f90ede8b2a55fc9ec947948b73d81e052707cc3e335723112d7f548ad568f7"
+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 SB 124 (2021) — GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION: Requires the playing or singing of the national anthem prior to certain athletic contests. (8/1/21)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB124 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1209335)
+2. **House Floor Amendment, #3510, Miller, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1228343)
+3. **SB124 Act 224** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235361)
+4. **SB124 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217860)
+5. **SB124 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230571)
+
+## Votes
+
+- CONCUR (#644) — **34–1** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#755) — **74–11** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#209) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Sharon Hewitt — primary (person)
+- Barrow Peacock — cosponsor (person)
+- Barry Milligan — cosponsor (person)
+- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
+- Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
+- Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
+- Eddie Lambert — cosponsor (person)
+- Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)
+- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
+- Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Rogers Pope — cosponsor (person)
+- Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
+- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
+- Louie Bernard — cosponsor (person)
+- Mack Bodi White, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick Connick — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)
+- R. L. Bret Allain, II — cosponsor (person)
+- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
+- Rick Ward, III — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert Mills — cosponsor (person)
+- Ronnie Johns — cosponsor (person)
+- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-06-14** Effective date 8/1/2021.
+- **2021-06-14** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 224. `executive-signature`
+- **2021-06-06** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/4/2021. `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-06-03** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2021-06-03** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2021-06-01** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 34 yeas and 1 nays.
+- **2021-05-27** Received from the House with amendments.
+- **2021-05-26** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 74, nays 11. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2021-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/26/2021.
+- **2021-05-18** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2021-05-17** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2021-05-13** Reported favorably (8-3). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2021-05-04** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-05-03** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2021-05-03** Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2021-04-28** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2021-04-27** Reported favorably.
+- **2021-04-12** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-30** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `filing, referral-committee`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c01f3ad0-eaf8-4c3d-8690-1e28a7e417a6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+