---
type: "Bill"
title: "ETHICS/NEPOTISM: Provides an exception to allow an immediate family member of a local school board member to be employed as a certified school bus operator"
description: "ETHICS/NEPOTISM: Provides an exception to allow an immediate family member of a local school board member to be employed as a certified school bus operator"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 306"
citation: "Louisiana HB 306 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nicholas Muscarello"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-30"
last_action: "2021-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3f6b85d0-eb59-4f3b-a5c6-e01b7b32ea32"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240191"
source_hash: "d35f065f69e594d16e78b55b1b17c3bee7f35229820ca8e1cee64484c4682e3e"
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 306 (2021) — ETHICS/NEPOTISM: Provides an exception to allow an immediate family member of a local school board member to be employed as a certified school bus operator

## Version chain

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

1. **HB306 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1209023)
2. **HB306 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235210)
3. **HB306 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218297)
4. **HB306 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1228995)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#515) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#214) — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Nicholas Muscarello — 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. 199. `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 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-24** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. 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.
- **2021-05-06** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-05** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-04** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-29** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/04/2021.
- **2021-04-29** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-28** Reported favorably (13-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `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 House and Governmental Affairs. `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/3f6b85d0-eb59-4f3b-a5c6-e01b7b32ea32`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).