---
type: "Bill"
title: "SCHOOLS: Provides relative to the membership of the board of directors of the Special School District"
description: "SCHOOLS: Provides relative to the membership of the board of directors of the Special School District"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 211"
citation: "Louisiana HB 211 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Scott McKnight"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-02-25"
last_action: "2022-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/81bacf4b-4e90-432a-a926-524fa38b47a7"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241791"
source_hash: "8088e11421dda575a0d7aea906ae025551728496a1f54da0618d53221ac4ded3"
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 211 (2022) — SCHOOLS: Provides relative to the membership of the board of directors of the Special School District

## Version chain

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

1. **HB211 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1251072)
2. **HB211 Act 136** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1286054)
3. **HB211 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261617)
4. **HB211 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1280972)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#708) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#123) — **102–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Scott McKnight — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-25** Effective date: 08/01/2022.
- **2022-05-25** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 136. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-24** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-23** Signed by the President of the Senate on 5/19/2022.
- **2022-05-19** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-18** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2022-05-18** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-05-16** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-05-15** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-05-12** Reported favorably.
- **2022-04-04** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-29** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-03-29** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-03-24** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/29/2022.
- **2022-03-24** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-03-23** Reported favorably (9-0).
- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-25** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/25/2022.
- **2022-02-25** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-25** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/81bacf4b-4e90-432a-a926-524fa38b47a7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).