---
type: "Bill"
title: "STUDENTS: Requires students who are entering eleventh grade or who are 16 and entering any grade to provide satisfactory evidence of current immunization against meningococcal disease as a condition of school entry (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "STUDENTS: Requires students who are entering eleventh grade or who are 16 and entering any grade to provide satisfactory evidence of current immunization against meningococcal disease as a condition of school entry (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 176"
citation: "Louisiana HB 176 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Walt Leger, III"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-02-26"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8dda16a9-6280-4927-abf2-15d7f33453db"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233410"
source_hash: "40f341270b04b79c97a9b308729b559424a09379a3e46186bb22d5b1c4aede43"
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 176 (2018) — STUDENTS: Requires students who are entering eleventh grade or who are 16 and entering any grade to provide satisfactory evidence of current immunization against meningococcal disease as a condition of school entry (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB176 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1067819)
2. **HB176 Act 196** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1099052)
3. **HB176 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1074998)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1149, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1074480)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1186, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1074966)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2855, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1088052)
7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3008, Mills, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1088831)
8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3112, Milkovich, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1089493)
9. **HB176 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1094597)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#666) — **37–1** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#58) — **90–0** (pass) · legislature
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#801) — **95–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Walt Leger, III — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-05-15** Effective date: 07/01/2019.
- **2018-05-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 196. `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-10** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-10** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2018-05-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2018-05-08** Read by title, roll called, yeas 95, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2018-05-03** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/08/18.
- **2018-05-01** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2018-05-01** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2018-04-23** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2018-04-19** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2018-04-18** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments.
- **2018-03-21** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-20** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2018-03-20** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2018-03-15** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/20/18.
- **2018-03-15** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-03-14** Reported with amendments (14-0).
- **2018-03-12** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-26** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-26** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8dda16a9-6280-4927-abf2-15d7f33453db`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).