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+type: "Bill"
+title: "STUDENTS: Confirms the protections of free speech and First Amendment protected activities on college and university campuses. (gov sig)"
+description: "STUDENTS: Confirms the protections of free speech and First Amendment protected activities on college and university campuses. (gov sig)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "SB 294"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 294 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Valarie Hodges"]
+version_count: 11
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2024-03-01"
+last_action: "2024-06-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4667fc6c-1258-44c2-bb44-e1203cbd610a"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246575"
+source_hash: "a4b766b2fd93356e1a6cb57d280ecb7cf63d70fcdce6eba2da067675988183c2"
+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 294 (2024) — STUDENTS: Confirms the protections of free speech and First Amendment protected activities on college and university campuses. (gov sig)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB294 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352665)
+2. **House Committee Amendment, #4587, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374270)
+3. **House Floor Amendment, #5052, Glorioso, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377731)
+4. **SB294 Act 584** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382245)
+5. **SB294 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371328)
+6. **SB294 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372435)
+7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2681, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369845)
+8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2934, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371187)
+9. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #3152, Hodges, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372308)
+10. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2991, Miller, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371490)
+11. **SB294 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379124)
+
+## Votes
+
+- CO-AUTHORS (#538) — **8–0** (fail) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#537) — **28–11** (pass) · upper
+- CONCUR (#1194) — **27–8** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#1303) — **73–23** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Valarie Hodges — primary (person)
+- Adam Bass — cosponsor (person)
+- Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
+- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
+- Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
+- Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
+- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
+- Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
+- Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
+- Josh Carlson — cosponsor (person)
+- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael Melerine — cosponsor (person)
+- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
+- Thomas Pressly — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-06-11** Effective date 6/11/2024.
+- **2024-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 584. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2024-05-31** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-05-30** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2024-05-29** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
+- **2024-05-28** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 27 yeas and 8 nays.
+- **2024-05-22** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
+- **2024-05-22** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 73, nays 23. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2024-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/2024.
+- **2024-05-20** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-05-15** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2024-05-14** Reported with amendments (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-05-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-05-08** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2024-05-07** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 28 yeas and 11 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2024-05-06** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2024-05-01** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-11** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-01** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `filing, referral-committee`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4667fc6c-1258-44c2-bb44-e1203cbd610a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+