---
type: "Bill"
title: "LEGISLATION: Designates Act No. 259 of the 2020 Regular Session as \"The Remy Hidalgo Act\""
description: "LEGISLATION: Designates Act No. 259 of the 2020 Regular Session as \"The Remy Hidalgo Act\""
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 184"
citation: "Louisiana HB 184 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sherman Q. Mack"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-23"
last_action: "2021-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d394c8e2-99c1-4e5c-9273-5477b8b678f0"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240012"
source_hash: "2657e3e7bef0048c4a6c70c3eb355e14ee0d344ac039ab09f581bb21ce084da9"
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 184 (2021) — LEGISLATION: Designates Act No. 259 of the 2020 Regular Session as "The Remy Hidalgo Act"

## Version chain

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

1. **HB184 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1206068)
2. **HB184 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235112)
3. **HB184 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1223996)
4. **HB184 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231470)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#510) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#719) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Sherman Q. Mack — primary (person)
- Buddy Mincey — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Frieman — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 180. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-07** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-06** Signed by the President of the Senate on 6/3/2021.
- **2021-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-03** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-06-02** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-27** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-26** Reported favorably.
- **2021-05-20** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-19** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-18** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/18/2021.
- **2021-05-13** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-12** Reported favorably (13-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-26** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/26/2021.
- **2021-03-23** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-23** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d394c8e2-99c1-4e5c-9273-5477b8b678f0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).