---
type: "Bill"
title: "HOLIDAYS: Designates Juneteenth as a state holiday"
description: "HOLIDAYS: Designates Juneteenth as a state holiday"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 554"
citation: "Louisiana HB 554 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Larry Selders"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-04-02"
last_action: "2021-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d4e818dc-0d82-4588-a52d-105beecdc6a5"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240516"
source_hash: "c38d04d20bead23db6da665b7613b6d4fea2e03a6bb5f47ef03b75f1a5782b0c"
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 554 (2021) — HOLIDAYS: Designates Juneteenth as a state holiday

## Version chain

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

1. **HB554 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1211916)
2. **HB554 Act 128** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1234786)
3. **HB554 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1228850)
4. **HB554 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1233067)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#929) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#935) — **87–0** (pass) · lower
- CO-AUTHORS (#930) — **13–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Larry Selders — primary (person)
- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Deshotel — cosponsor (person)
- Dustin Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
- Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Edward Ted James — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Frederick D. Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory Tarver — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
- Karen Carter Peterson — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
- Mandie Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
- Randal L. Gaines — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Tammy Phelps — cosponsor (person)
- Troy Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-10** Effective date: 08/.01/2021.
- **2021-06-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 128. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-10** 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.
- **2021-06-07** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-06-06** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-06-06** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-06-02** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-02** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 87, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-06-01** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/02/2021.
- **2021-06-01** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-27** Reported favorably (12-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `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 Judiciary. `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/d4e818dc-0d82-4588-a52d-105beecdc6a5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).