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+type: "Bill"
+title: "SCHOOLS/EMPLOYEES: Provides relative to extended leave for school bus operators and public school employees (EN LF EX See Note)"
+description: "SCHOOLS/EMPLOYEES: Provides relative to extended leave for school bus operators and public school employees (EN LF EX See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 21"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 21 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Joe Stagni"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-02-09"
+last_action: "2023-06-07"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b6e53e93-6f52-4d05-90ec-91b7bf05dbc2"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=243841"
+source_hash: "ab3a5ab3c8bac999a15eaadad4d747a40ff1bfe8f9e4646ddf685517352a59ca"
+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 21 (2023) — SCHOOLS/EMPLOYEES: Provides relative to extended leave for school bus operators and public school employees (EN LF EX See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB21 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1299804)
+2. **HB21 Act 133** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332101)
+3. **HB21 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318111)
+4. **HB21 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321521)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #2094, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317544)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #2200, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318048)
+7. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1245, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318417)
+8. **HB21 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328185)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#558) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#331) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Joe Stagni — primary (person)
+- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-06-07** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
+- **2023-06-07** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 133. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2023-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2023-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2023-05-30** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2023-05-30** 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`
+- **2023-05-29** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-26** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2023-05-25** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-05-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2023-05-15** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2023-05-11** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2023-05-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/11/2023.
+- **2023-05-03** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-02** Reported with amendments (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-17** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/17/2023.
+- **2023-02-09** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-09** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b6e53e93-6f52-4d05-90ec-91b7bf05dbc2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+