---
type: "Bill"
title: "EMPLOYMENT: Provides relative to employment for persons with disabilities (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)"
description: "EMPLOYMENT: Provides relative to employment for persons with disabilities (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 259"
citation: "Louisiana HB 259 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dodie Horton"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 22
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-03-29"
last_action: "2021-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2effff89-5a6a-466a-8354-7953f62830a2"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240114"
source_hash: "5fd7312bf0f8a4d2eeee6177851441a1bfa7e3e3881ebc6f949cbb3d694ebc3b"
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 259 (2021) — EMPLOYMENT: Provides relative to employment for persons with disabilities (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB259 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1208170)
2. **HB259 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235205)
3. **HB259 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222085)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #2302, L&IR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221006)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2420, L&IR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221750)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2466, L&IR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222043)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2392, L&IR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1226649)
8. **Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2561, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1227762)
9. **HB259 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230929)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#910) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#531) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- CO-AUTHORS (#532) — **8–0** (fail) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#445) — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dodie Horton — primary (person)
- Barrow Peacock — cosponsor (person)
- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
- Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory Tarver — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Louie Bernard — cosponsor (person)
- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Mills — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (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. 194. `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.
- **2021-06-02** Read by title, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2021-06-01** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/02/2021.
- **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 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-25** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-24** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-20** Reported with amendments.
- **2021-05-18** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `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, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, 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, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-06** Reported with amendments (8-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021.
- **2021-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2effff89-5a6a-466a-8354-7953f62830a2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).