---
type: "Bill"
title: "STUDENTS: Provides for the sharing of limited student information for the purpose of administering certain federal food assistance programs and for certain postsecondary education purposes"
description: "STUDENTS: Provides for the sharing of limited student information for the purpose of administering certain federal food assistance programs and for certain postsecondary education purposes"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 322"
citation: "Louisiana HB 322 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aimee Adatto Freeman"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-30"
last_action: "2021-06-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5a3cd385-8311-4217-83d7-c60ad967a532"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240207"
source_hash: "ab4d2e74f5417bb843405d86d26c1407aff350b24081ef19a27984bfb17664d5"
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 322 (2021) — STUDENTS: Provides for the sharing of limited student information for the purpose of administering certain federal food assistance programs and for certain postsecondary education purposes

## Version chain

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

1. **HB322 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1209249)
2. **HB322 Act 366** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235694)
3. **HB322 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221301)
4. **HB322 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224219)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2042, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219696)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2233, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220827)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #2334, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221266)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #2788, Freeman, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1223807)
9. **HB322 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1229001)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#407) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#537) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Aimee Adatto Freeman — primary (person)
- Scott McKnight — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-16** Effective date: See Act.
- **2021-06-16** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 366. `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 36 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.
- **2021-05-17** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-13** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-12** 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 05/12/2021.
- **2021-05-06** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-05** Reported with amendments (8-0).
- **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/5a3cd385-8311-4217-83d7-c60ad967a532`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).