---
type: "Bill"
title: "STATE SYMBOL: Designates the song \"Southern Nights\" by Allen Toussaint as the official state cultural song"
description: "STATE SYMBOL: Designates the song \"Southern Nights\" by Allen Toussaint as the official state cultural song"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 351"
citation: "Louisiana HB 351 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Vincent J. Pierre"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 30
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-31"
last_action: "2021-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/48c622a4-1be0-4920-afe0-4644404dc8bf"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240250"
source_hash: "0c7456f6ad79a54d328c26fa1793f73bf7517a68f593c871f5339b201ba9dec6"
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 351 (2021) — STATE SYMBOL: Designates the song "Southern Nights" by Allen Toussaint as the official state cultural song

## Version chain

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

1. **HB351 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1209943)
2. **HB351 Act 471** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1236383)
3. **HB351 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221837)
4. **HB351 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1229545)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #2951, Magee, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224717)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #2958, Magee, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224760)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #3392, Amedee, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1227472)
8. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1781, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222245)
9. **HB351 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232779)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#848) — **100–1** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#819) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Vincent J. Pierre — primary (person)
- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
- Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Frederick D. Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-29** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-29** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 471. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-11** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-07** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-06-06** 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`
- **2021-06-03** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-06-02** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-06-01** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-27** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-27** Called from the calendar.
- **2021-05-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/27/2021.
- **2021-05-26** Notice given.
- **2021-05-24** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2021-05-24** Called from the calendar.
- **2021-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/24/2021.
- **2021-05-20** Notice given.
- **2021-05-19** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2021-05-19** Called from the calendar.
- **2021-05-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/19/2021.
- **2021-05-18** Notice given.
- **2021-05-13** Read by title, amended, returned to the calendar.
- **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 (11-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021.
- **2021-03-31** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-31** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/48c622a4-1be0-4920-afe0-4644404dc8bf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).