---
type: "Bill"
title: "HIGHER EDUCATION: Provides relative to campus safety and accountability (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)"
description: "HIGHER EDUCATION: Provides relative to campus safety and accountability (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 409"
citation: "Louisiana HB 409 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aimee Adatto Freeman"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 24
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-04-01"
last_action: "2021-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/43494b00-1f77-4a34-af38-03e26faabbd6"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240339"
source_hash: "76497eaf25c802a3cb2ceb42b2a6ba347cf2ad791f7bee5b8c6c554397e96f61"
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 409 (2021) — HIGHER EDUCATION: Provides relative to campus safety and accountability (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB409 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1210830)
2. **HB409 Act 472** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1236384)
3. **HB409 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216737)
4. **HB409 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218648)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1034, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214632)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1570, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216642)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #1872, Freeman, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218433)
8. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #950, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216774)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2011, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224279)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2068, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224617)
11. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2488, Mizell, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1227258)
12. **HB409 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231463)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#620) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#954) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#115) — **102–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Aimee Adatto Freeman — primary (person)
- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
- Chad Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Debbie Villio — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Jeremy LaCombe — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- Karen Carter Peterson — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Laurie Schlegel — cosponsor (person)
- Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
- Mandie Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Wright — cosponsor (person)
- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
- Neil Riser — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
- Paula Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Phillip Tarver — cosponsor (person)
- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Mills — cosponsor (person)
- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Sherman Q. Mack — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Hilferty — cosponsor (person)
- Tammy Phelps — cosponsor (person)
- Valarie Hodges — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. St. Blanc , III — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)
- William "Bill" Wheat , Jr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-29** Effective date: 06/29/2021.
- **2021-06-29** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 472. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-03** Read by title, roll called, yeas 99, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2021-06-02** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/03/2021.
- **2021-06-02** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2021-06-01** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-26** Read by title; made Special Order of the Day No. 2 for 6/1.
- **2021-05-26** Rules suspended.
- **2021-05-19** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-18** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-17** Reported with amendments.
- **2021-05-03** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-29** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-04-28** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/28/2021.
- **2021-04-26** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-22** Reported with amendments (10-0).
- **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.
- **2021-04-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `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/43494b00-1f77-4a34-af38-03e26faabbd6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).