---
type: "Bill"
title: "HOMELAND SECURITY: Establishes the Louisiana Commission on Security for the Faith Community (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX)"
description: "HOMELAND SECURITY: Establishes the Louisiana Commission on Security for the Faith Community (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 242"
citation: "Louisiana HB 242 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dustin Miller"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-03-26"
last_action: "2021-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a0392797-3c0b-4dbf-9edf-4ab524fb5ae9"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240087"
source_hash: "5a61aadb1272c6c70f3a7c0e843cfee639740db7aa29237a0cea12ba89c85e54"
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 242 (2021) — HOMELAND SECURITY: Establishes the Louisiana Commission on Security for the Faith Community (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB242 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1207475)
2. **HB242 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235453)
3. **HB242 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221857)
4. **HB242 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224917)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #2647, Miller, D., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1223271)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2987, JUDB, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1229963)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3026, JUDB, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230305)
8. **HB242 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1233432)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#878) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#444) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1099) — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dustin Miller — primary (person)
- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
- Stuart J. Bishop — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-14** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-14** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 263. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-11** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-08** Read by title, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2021-06-07** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/08/2021.
- **2021-06-07** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2021-06-07** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-06-02** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-06-01** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-18** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-17** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-13** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-10** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/13/2021.
- **2021-05-10** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-06** Reported favorably (10-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-26** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/26/2021.
- **2021-03-26** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-26** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a0392797-3c0b-4dbf-9edf-4ab524fb5ae9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).