---
type: "Bill"
title: "CHILDREN/CARE: Provides relative to violations by facilities licensed in accordance with the Specialized Provider Licensing Act"
description: "CHILDREN/CARE: Provides relative to violations by facilities licensed in accordance with the Specialized Provider Licensing Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 461"
citation: "Louisiana HB 461 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jason Hughes"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-04-02"
last_action: "2021-06-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d7951c65-14ba-4d7f-a905-0813a48a56d7"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240415"
source_hash: "d5c9f71268cadee792e20f9d060f7338aa37ecf2dfa4883b6dfa876fef6ce298"
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 461 (2021) — CHILDREN/CARE: Provides relative to violations by facilities licensed in accordance with the Specialized Provider Licensing Act

## Version chain

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

1. **HB461 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1211489)
2. **HB461 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230396)
3. **HB461 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216793)
4. **HB461 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1226017)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#397) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#160) — **100–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jason Hughes — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-01** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-01** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 31. `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-26** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-05-20** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-05-19** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-05-18** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-05-18** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-17** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-13** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-12** Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
- **2021-05-05** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-04** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-03** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-27** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/03/2021.
- **2021-04-27** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-26** Reported favorably (15-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `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 Health and Welfare. `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/d7951c65-14ba-4d7f-a905-0813a48a56d7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).