---
type: "Bill"
title: "HIGHER ED/BD REGENTS: Provides relative to the Advisory Council on Historically Black Colleges and Universities"
description: "HIGHER ED/BD REGENTS: Provides relative to the Advisory Council on Historically Black Colleges and Universities"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 119"
citation: "Louisiana HB 119 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jason Hughes"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-03-15"
last_action: "2021-06-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fe568929-f2c8-45b3-8fcb-9d247acbd378"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239921"
source_hash: "251e1bea8b4621b48d37aae3ced01b8f6303046f6d82c801faffd189a3f0f80f"
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 119 (2021) — HIGHER ED/BD REGENTS: Provides relative to the Advisory Council on Historically Black Colleges and Universities

## Version chain

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

1. **HB119 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1203933)
2. **HB119 Act 417** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235918)
3. **HB119 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216406)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2065, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224611)
5. **HB119 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230329)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#88) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#882) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#468) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jason Hughes — primary (person)
- Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-21** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-21** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 417. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-03** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-01** Read by title, roll called, yeas 98, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2021-05-27** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/01/2021.
- **2021-05-26** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2021-05-25** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-19** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-18** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-17** Reported with amendments.
- **2021-04-28** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-27** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-04-27** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/27/2021.
- **2021-04-26** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-22** Reported favorably (13-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-19** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/19/2021.
- **2021-03-15** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-15** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fe568929-f2c8-45b3-8fcb-9d247acbd378`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).