---
type: "Bill"
title: "HIGHER EDUCATION: Provides for anonymous sexual assault climate surveys at public postsecondary educational institutions"
description: "HIGHER EDUCATION: Provides for anonymous sexual assault climate surveys at public postsecondary educational institutions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 294"
citation: "Louisiana HB 294 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara Carpenter"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-28"
last_action: "2019-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e8310e70-8e08-4f67-b246-5d6a7158c3af"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236056"
source_hash: "1ec71a8e54c1b2b954649299598356c7816eb8c916153fcff8f64c97025d75ec"
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 294 (2019) — HIGHER EDUCATION: Provides for anonymous sexual assault climate surveys at public postsecondary educational institutions

## Version chain

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

1. **HB294 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1120364)
2. **HB294 Act 157** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143690)
3. **HB294 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130140)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1802, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129039)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1923, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129864)
6. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2919, Claitor, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139764)
7. **HB294 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141097)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#752) — **24–9** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#283) — **82–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Barbara Carpenter — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-06** Effective date: 06/06/2019.
- **2019-06-06** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 157. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-02** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-06-01** Read by title, passed by a vote of 24 yeas and 9 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-27** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-15** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-14** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 82, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/14/19.
- **2019-05-02** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-01** Reported with amendments (8-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e8310e70-8e08-4f67-b246-5d6a7158c3af`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).