---
type: "Bill"
title: "HIGHER EDUCATION: Provides relative to financial aid (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)"
description: "HIGHER EDUCATION: Provides relative to financial aid (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 42"
citation: "Louisiana HB 42 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Paula Davis"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-03-01"
last_action: "2021-06-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b886c429-4d75-494d-bd8f-d94b32a6a88a"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239826"
source_hash: "dab539e42649f0fc0a9175b7c3be801cb906d2bca61e98546661c4b1e5bcbfa5"
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 42 (2021) — HIGHER EDUCATION: Provides relative to financial aid (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. **HB42 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1201459)
2. **HB42 Act 413** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235914)
3. **HB42 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216741)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1326, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214988)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1571, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216629)
6. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #2264, Foil, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1226085)
7. **HB42 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230965)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#582) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#84) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#925) — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Paula Davis — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-21** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-21** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 413. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-03** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-02** Read by title, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2021-06-01** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/02/2021.
- **2021-05-27** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2021-05-27** Rules suspended. 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`
- **2021-05-19** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-18** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-17** Reported favorably.
- **2021-04-28** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-27** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-04-27** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/27/2021.
- **2021-04-26** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-22** Reported with amendments (9-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-05** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/5/2021.
- **2021-03-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b886c429-4d75-494d-bd8f-d94b32a6a88a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).