---
type: "Bill"
title: "EMPLOYMENT: Provides relative to the reporting and sharing of occupational information and employment information (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
description: "EMPLOYMENT: Provides relative to the reporting and sharing of occupational information and employment information (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 459"
citation: "Louisiana HB 459 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara Reich Freiberg"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 24
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-04-02"
last_action: "2021-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/91d53e78-4a86-4bb0-b389-45b680be7be2"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240413"
source_hash: "10d5ba6b6f8aa64679b321d7f9eebc272472742aa4db2dd8d6b1c81832fc0203"
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 459 (2021) — EMPLOYMENT: Provides relative to the reporting and sharing of occupational information and employment information (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB459 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1211487)
2. **HB459 Act 474** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1236388)
3. **HB459 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222132)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #2305, L&IR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221043)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2310, L&IR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221752)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2469, L&IR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222115)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2389, L&IR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1226646)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2394, L&IR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1226655)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3236, FNCE, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231161)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3381, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231811)
11. **HB459 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1233659)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#927) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1119) — **101–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#454) — **87–9** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Barbara Reich Freiberg — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-29** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-29** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 474. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-11** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-08** Read by title, roll called, yeas 101, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2021-06-07** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/08/2021.
- **2021-06-07** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2021-06-07** 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`
- **2021-06-06** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-06-06** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-24** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2021-05-24** Senate Committee amendments read and adopted.
- **2021-05-20** Reported with amendments.
- **2021-05-18** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-17** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-13** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 87, nays 9. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-10** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/13/2021.
- **2021-05-10** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-06** Reported with amendments (8-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `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 Labor and Industrial Relations. `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/91d53e78-4a86-4bb0-b389-45b680be7be2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).