---
type: "Bill"
title: "SCHOOLS: Provides relative to early literacy. (8/1/21) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)"
description: "SCHOOLS: Provides relative to early literacy. (8/1/21) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 222"
citation: "Louisiana SB 222 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sharon Hewitt"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-04-02"
last_action: "2021-06-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bbb26941-5bcf-40c9-a66b-c20aefa030f4"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240620"
source_hash: "e450f5a11e6e2383e5e2a59713e21db749fd2058c7a920150576a7ef6397b5d5"
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 222 (2021) — SCHOOLS: Provides relative to early literacy. (8/1/21) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB222 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1212317)
2. **SB222 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235894)
3. **SB222 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219265)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1214, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218218)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1317, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218865)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1356, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219266)
7. **SB222 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230407)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#892) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- CO-AUTHORS (#284) — **24–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#283) — **29–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Sharon Hewitt — primary (person)
- Barrow Peacock — cosponsor (person)
- Barry Milligan — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
- Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)
- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
- Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
- J. Rogers Pope — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
- Louie Bernard — cosponsor (person)
- Mack Bodi White, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)
- R. L. Bret Allain, II — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Mills — cosponsor (person)
- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-21** Effective date 8/1/2021.
- **2021-06-21** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 438. `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.
- **2021-06-02** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-01** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2021-06-01** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-06-01** Called from the calendar.
- **2021-05-27** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/01/2021.
- **2021-05-27** Notice given.
- **2021-05-27** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2021-05-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/27/2021.
- **2021-05-18** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-17** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2021-05-13** Reported favorably (9-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-06** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2021-05-06** Read by title, passed by a vote of 29 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-04** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-03** Reported with amendments.
- **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/bbb26941-5bcf-40c9-a66b-c20aefa030f4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).