---
type: "Bill"
title: "SCHOOLS: Authorizes public school governing authorities to establish learning pods for the purpose of providing small group instruction for students enrolled in public schools"
description: "SCHOOLS: Authorizes public school governing authorities to establish learning pods for the purpose of providing small group instruction for students enrolled in public schools"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 421"
citation: "Louisiana HB 421 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Julie Emerson"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-04-01"
last_action: "2021-06-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/571b6e35-6cb8-48e5-a765-169f2b978760"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240351"
source_hash: "2197aba47cfb8d1c8f9162327598055afd380276435cbdc39dc7a6e1cd0ea60e"
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 421 (2021) — SCHOOLS: Authorizes public school governing authorities to establish learning pods for the purpose of providing small group instruction for students enrolled in public schools

## Version chain

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

1. **HB421 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1210954)
2. **HB421 Act 400** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235798)
3. **HB421 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221278)
4. **HB421 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224190)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1833, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218446)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2333, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221244)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2494, Emerson, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222250)
8. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1692, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221696)
9. **HB421 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232975)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#413) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#824) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Julie Emerson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-16** Effective date: 06/16/2021.
- **2021-06-16** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 400. `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** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **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.
- **2021-04-01** 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/571b6e35-6cb8-48e5-a765-169f2b978760`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).