---
type: "Bill"
title: "BOARDS/COMMISSIONS: Provides for changes to the Louisiana Council on the Social Status of Black Men and Boys"
description: "BOARDS/COMMISSIONS: Provides for changes to the Louisiana Council on the Social Status of Black Men and Boys"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 711"
citation: "Louisiana HB 711 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edward Ted James"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-20"
last_action: "2018-05-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5d46385d-cc8e-49d5-9e5b-c02a3d353e06"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=234417"
source_hash: "602e5cf0a4336da964f473ca76355884ec30815a1d8b5565e46048053a585c15"
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 711 (2018) — BOARDS/COMMISSIONS: Provides for changes to the Louisiana Council on the Social Status of Black Men and Boys

## Version chain

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

1. **HB711 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1076935)
2. **HB711 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1096997)
3. **HB711 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1080125)
4. **HB711 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1093088)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#290) — **95–0** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#725) — **32–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Edward Ted James — primary (person)
- Wesley Bishop — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-05-10** Effective date: 08/01/2018.
- **2018-05-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 103. `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-08** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-07** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2018-05-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2018-05-03** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2018-05-03** Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2018-04-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2018-04-26** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2018-04-25** Reported favorably.
- **2018-04-10** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-09** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2018-04-05** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2018-03-29** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/05/18.
- **2018-03-29** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-03-28** Reported favorably (8-0).
- **2018-03-21** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-20** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5d46385d-cc8e-49d5-9e5b-c02a3d353e06`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).