---
type: "Bill"
title: "PUBLIC RECORDS: Provides that airport facility plans are confidential"
description: "PUBLIC RECORDS: Provides that airport facility plans are confidential"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 120"
citation: "Louisiana HB 120 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Candace N. Newell"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 24
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-03-15"
last_action: "2021-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b0af8f04-9a46-49b7-b90c-a3e5329bf468"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239922"
source_hash: "779f62390558d0904fb412b99194c2a134ff368e41860130bf1689a3d9ba7427"
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 120 (2021) — PUBLIC RECORDS: Provides that airport facility plans are confidential

## Version chain

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

1. **HB120 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1203935)
2. **HB120 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235097)
3. **HB120 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220597)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1027, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1210635)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2207, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220476)
6. **Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2439, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1226954)
7. **HB120 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230334)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#367) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#509) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#883) — **100–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Candace N. Newell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-11** Effective date: 06/11/2021.
- **2021-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 169. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-03** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-02** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-01** Read by title, roll called, yeas 100, 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.
- **2021-05-26** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-24** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-20** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-19** Reported favorably.
- **2021-05-13** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-12** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-11** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-11** Called from the calendar.
- **2021-05-11** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2021-05-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/11/2021.
- **2021-05-05** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-04** Reported with amendments (13-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `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 House and Governmental Affairs. `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/b0af8f04-9a46-49b7-b90c-a3e5329bf468`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).