---
type: "Bill"
title: "GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION: Requires the playing or singing of the national anthem prior to certain athletic contests. (8/1/21)"
description: "GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION: Requires the playing or singing of the national anthem prior to certain athletic contests. (8/1/21)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 124"
citation: "Louisiana SB 124 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sharon Hewitt"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-03-30"
last_action: "2021-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c01f3ad0-eaf8-4c3d-8690-1e28a7e417a6"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240218"
source_hash: "00f90ede8b2a55fc9ec947948b73d81e052707cc3e335723112d7f548ad568f7"
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 SB 124 (2021) — GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION: Requires the playing or singing of the national anthem prior to certain athletic contests. (8/1/21)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB124 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1209335)
2. **House Floor Amendment, #3510, Miller, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1228343)
3. **SB124 Act 224** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235361)
4. **SB124 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217860)
5. **SB124 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230571)

## Votes

- CONCUR (#644) — **34–1** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#755) — **74–11** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#209) — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Sharon Hewitt — primary (person)
- Barrow Peacock — cosponsor (person)
- Barry Milligan — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
- Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
- Eddie Lambert — cosponsor (person)
- Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)
- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
- Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
- J. Rogers Pope — cosponsor (person)
- Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
- Louie Bernard — cosponsor (person)
- Mack Bodi White, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Connick — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)
- R. L. Bret Allain, II — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Ward, III — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Mills — cosponsor (person)
- Ronnie Johns — cosponsor (person)
- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-14** Effective date 8/1/2021.
- **2021-06-14** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 224. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-06** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/4/2021. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-03** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-03** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-01** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 34 yeas and 1 nays.
- **2021-05-27** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2021-05-26** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 74, nays 11. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/26/2021.
- **2021-05-18** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-17** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2021-05-13** Reported favorably (8-3). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-04** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-03** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2021-05-03** Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-04-28** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-04-27** Reported favorably.
- **2021-04-12** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-30** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c01f3ad0-eaf8-4c3d-8690-1e28a7e417a6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).