---
type: "Bill"
title: "LEASES: Provides relative to sexual assault victims as parties to certain residential lease agreements"
description: "LEASES: Provides relative to sexual assault victims as parties to certain residential lease agreements"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 375"
citation: "Louisiana HB 375 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aimee Adatto Freeman"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 24
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-04-01"
last_action: "2021-06-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bea0d3e6-0a93-4f7d-9274-500036349dce"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240287"
source_hash: "992bee47fe36326466f7c2095b179ee164e7d33aa432994379d6066e09879235"
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 375 (2021) — LEASES: Provides relative to sexual assault victims as parties to certain residential lease agreements

## Version chain

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

1. **HB375 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1210486)
2. **HB375 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230346)
3. **HB375 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214102)
4. **HB375 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216278)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1117, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1213462)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1189, CL&P, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214030)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #1251, Freeman, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214483)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1511, JUDA, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220279)
9. **HB375 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224936)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#51) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#361) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- CO-AUTHORS (#362) — **7–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Aimee Adatto Freeman — primary (person)
- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Karen Carter Peterson — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
- Mandie Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Mills — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)
- Tammy Phelps — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-01** Effective date: 06/01/2021.
- **2021-06-01** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 1. `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-19** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-05-18** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-05-17** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-05-12** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-05-12** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-06** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-05** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-04** Reported favorably.
- **2021-04-27** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-26** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-04-21** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-21** Called from the calendar.
- **2021-04-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/21/2021.
- **2021-04-20** Notice given.
- **2021-04-20** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2021-04-15** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/20/2021.
- **2021-04-15** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-14** Reported with amendments (13-0-1).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021.
- **2021-04-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bea0d3e6-0a93-4f7d-9274-500036349dce`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).