---
type: "Bill"
title: "EMPLOYMENT: Provides relative to employment discrimination (EN NO IMPACT LF RV See Note)"
description: "EMPLOYMENT: Provides relative to employment discrimination (EN NO IMPACT LF RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 707"
citation: "Louisiana HB 707 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Matthew Willard"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-05-10"
last_action: "2021-06-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eb5712a1-7bb7-4f77-9824-1e71c4694c34"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240988"
source_hash: "1d24e0af72eb933f3e78a94bba2634275ee109a9aa8880cf1031b30a955ca005"
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 707 (2021) — EMPLOYMENT: Provides relative to employment discrimination (EN NO IMPACT LF RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB707 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222189)
2. **HB707 Act 406** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235804)
3. **HB707 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222492)
4. **HB707 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1225412)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #2985, Willard, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1225109)
6. **HB707 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1233063)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#480) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#914) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Matthew Willard — primary (person)
- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Edward Ted James — cosponsor (person)
- Frederick D. Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
- Randal L. Gaines — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-16** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-16** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 406. `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.
- **2021-06-07** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 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.
- **2021-05-19** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-18** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-17** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/17/2021.
- **2021-05-11** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-10** Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 480 reported by the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations (11-0).

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eb5712a1-7bb7-4f77-9824-1e71c4694c34`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).