---
type: "Bill"
title: "TAX/INCOME TAX: Creates an individual income tax checkoff for the Sexual Trauma Awareness and Response (STAR) organization (EN NO IMPACT GF RV See Note)"
description: "TAX/INCOME TAX: Creates an individual income tax checkoff for the Sexual Trauma Awareness and Response (STAR) organization (EN NO IMPACT GF RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 12"
citation: "Louisiana HB 12 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Malinda White"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-09"
last_action: "2021-06-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a467480c-7c95-4c8f-ac60-7cdd2ca31a4f"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239774"
source_hash: "bce837afe90755fe04acaf0847964494a8d2c0814042cdc3f79191fad5c8a46f"
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 12 (2021) — TAX/INCOME TAX: Creates an individual income tax checkoff for the Sexual Trauma Awareness and Response (STAR) organization (EN NO IMPACT GF RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB12 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1199265)
2. **HB12 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230350)
3. **HB12 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215383)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1361, W&M, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215273)
5. **HB12 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1226064)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#388) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#55) — **100–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Malinda White — primary (person)
- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
- Clay Schexnayder — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Dustin Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Edward Ted James — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Marino — cosponsor (person)
- Karen Carter Peterson — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
- Mandie Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
- Randal L. Gaines — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Hilferty — cosponsor (person)
- Tanner Magee — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-01** Effective date: See Act.
- **2021-06-01** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 3. `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-26** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-05-20** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-05-19** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-05-18** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-05-18** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-12** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-11** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-10** Reported favorably.
- **2021-04-27** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-26** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-04-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-21** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/22/2021.
- **2021-04-21** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-20** Reported with amendments (12-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-12** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/12/2021.
- **2021-02-09** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-09** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a467480c-7c95-4c8f-ac60-7cdd2ca31a4f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).