---
type: "Bill"
title: "STUDENTS: Provides for the sharing of limited student information for the purpose of administering certain federal food assistance programs"
description: "STUDENTS: Provides for the sharing of limited student information for the purpose of administering certain federal food assistance programs"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 979"
citation: "Louisiana HB 979 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aimee Adatto Freeman"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 26
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-04-05"
last_action: "2022-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/13caa52c-afc2-44dd-a54e-2a207d957d1e"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=243086"
source_hash: "2c531ef4a151aa6995709709ab070d03d0fed60601bf8ef87ba158e0fe2be772"
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 979 (2022) — STUDENTS: Provides for the sharing of limited student information for the purpose of administering certain federal food assistance programs

## Version chain

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

1. **HB979 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1266328)
2. **HB979 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1288543)
3. **HB979 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1268805)
4. **HB979 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1282482)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#479) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#782) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Aimee Adatto Freeman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-06-03** Effective date: 08/01/2022.
- **2022-06-03** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 276. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-26** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-25** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-24** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-23** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2022-05-23** 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`
- **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.
- **2022-04-28** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-27** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-04-26** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-04-26** Called from the calendar.
- **2022-04-25** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/26/2022.
- **2022-04-25** Notice given.
- **2022-04-25** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2022-04-25** Called from the calendar.
- **2022-04-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/25/2022.
- **2022-04-20** Notice given.
- **2022-04-20** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2022-04-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/20/2022.
- **2022-04-13** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-04-12** Reported favorably (10-0).
- **2022-04-06** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-05** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/13caa52c-afc2-44dd-a54e-2a207d957d1e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).