---
type: "Bill"
title: "ADMINISTRATION DIVISION: Creates and provides for the office of the state Americans with Disabilities Act coordinator within the division of administration (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)"
description: "ADMINISTRATION DIVISION: Creates and provides for the office of the state Americans with Disabilities Act coordinator within the division of administration (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 446"
citation: "Louisiana HB 446 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rhonda Butler"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-04-02"
last_action: "2021-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c04e0b6a-9d04-4be0-878f-d60c1deec534"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240400"
source_hash: "d352bdc32f6a1c00902b5dd7466f7f65120263c35b3fbb49dcdbc31f4c041aba"
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 446 (2021) — ADMINISTRATION DIVISION: Creates and provides for the office of the state Americans with Disabilities Act coordinator within the division of administration (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. **HB446 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1211458)
2. **HB446 Act 452** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1236014)
3. **HB446 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221632)
4. **HB446 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231628)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#728) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#500) — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rhonda Butler — primary (person)
- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Chad Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
- Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory Tarver — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Jean-Paul Coussan — cosponsor (person)
- Jeremy LaCombe — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy P. Kerner — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. St. Blanc , III — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-23** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-23** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 452. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-03** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-06-02** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-06-01** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-27** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2021-05-26** Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
- **2021-05-20** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-19** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-18** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/18/2021.
- **2021-05-12** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-11** Reported favorably (17-0).
- **2021-05-06** Read by title, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2021-05-05** Reported favorably (12-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021.
- **2021-04-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c04e0b6a-9d04-4be0-878f-d60c1deec534`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).