---
type: "Bill"
title: "TEACHERS: Requires in-service training for teachers and certain other school personnel on adverse childhood experiences and trauma-informed education. (gov sig) (EN +$160,384 GF EX See Note)"
description: "TEACHERS: Requires in-service training for teachers and certain other school personnel on adverse childhood experiences and trauma-informed education. (gov sig) (EN +$160,384 GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 211"
citation: "Louisiana SB 211 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Katrina Jackson"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-04-02"
last_action: "2021-06-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d56bf18a-9932-43db-8848-23503a1117ea"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240597"
source_hash: "191ee396559e16ba7553bc8b663f133759fc9c7bbc9cf67bf9dfd8796bac06fd"
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 211 (2021) — TEACHERS: Requires in-service training for teachers and certain other school personnel on adverse childhood experiences and trauma-informed education. (gov sig) (EN +$160,384 GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB211 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1212252)
2. **SB211 Act 353** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235719)
3. **SB211 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219181)
4. **SB211 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224197)
5. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1866, White, B, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222828)
6. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1383, Mills, Fred, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219334)
7. **SB211 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231799)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#352) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#987) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- CO-AUTHORS (#353) — **12–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Katrina Jackson — primary (person)
- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- Barry Milligan — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory Tarver — cosponsor (person)
- Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Mills — cosponsor (person)
- Ronnie Johns — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-17** Effective date 6/17/2021.
- **2021-06-17** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 353. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-08** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-07** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-07** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-06** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2021-06-03** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-06-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/03/2021.
- **2021-05-26** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-25** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2021-05-24** Reported favorably (16-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-19** Read by title, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2021-05-18** Reported favorably (8-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2021-05-17** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-13** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2021-05-12** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-11** Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-10** Reported favorably.
- **2021-05-04** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2021-05-03** Reported favorably.
- **2021-04-12** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d56bf18a-9932-43db-8848-23503a1117ea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).