---
type: "Bill"
title: "EARLY CHILDHOOD: Provides for coordinating data in order to evaluate the early childhood care and education network, prioritizing the provision of related services and funds, and creating a program to provide instructional materials for home use (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "EARLY CHILDHOOD: Provides for coordinating data in order to evaluate the early childhood care and education network, prioritizing the provision of related services and funds, and creating a program to provide instructional materials for home use (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 304"
citation: "Louisiana HB 304 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rodney Lyons"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-30"
last_action: "2021-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/be8646a9-4829-4205-be4d-5a68a1f6fbee"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240189"
source_hash: "6376c45f533107a5c7e1934b070fb1345083ea2d64d57f8a0b283ea2db8f76f7"
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 304 (2021) — EARLY CHILDHOOD: Provides for coordinating data in order to evaluate the early childhood care and education network, prioritizing the provision of related services and funds, and creating a program to provide instructional materials for home use (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB304 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1209015)
2. **HB304 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235209)
3. **HB304 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220354)
4. **HB304 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1223617)
5. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1583, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220924)
6. **HB304 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1228990)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#372) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#536) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Rodney Lyons — primary (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. 198. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-05-26** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-05-26** Rules suspended. 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 without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-24** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-20** Reported favorably.
- **2021-05-13** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `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, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/11/2021.
- **2021-05-05** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-04** Reported favorably (9-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021.
- **2021-03-30** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-30** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/be8646a9-4829-4205-be4d-5a68a1f6fbee`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).