---
type: "Bill"
title: "SCHOOLS/EMPLOYEES: Provides relative to extended leave for school bus operators and public school employees (EN LF EX See Note)"
description: "SCHOOLS/EMPLOYEES: Provides relative to extended leave for school bus operators and public school employees (EN LF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 21"
citation: "Louisiana HB 21 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joe Stagni"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-02-09"
last_action: "2023-06-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b6e53e93-6f52-4d05-90ec-91b7bf05dbc2"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=243841"
source_hash: "ab3a5ab3c8bac999a15eaadad4d747a40ff1bfe8f9e4646ddf685517352a59ca"
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 21 (2023) — SCHOOLS/EMPLOYEES: Provides relative to extended leave for school bus operators and public school employees (EN LF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB21 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1299804)
2. **HB21 Act 133** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332101)
3. **HB21 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318111)
4. **HB21 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321521)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2094, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317544)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2200, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318048)
7. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1245, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318417)
8. **HB21 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328185)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#558) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#331) — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Joe Stagni — primary (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-07** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-07** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 133. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-30** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-30** 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`
- **2023-05-29** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-26** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-25** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-15** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-11** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/11/2023.
- **2023-05-03** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-02** Reported with amendments (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-17** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/17/2023.
- **2023-02-09** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-09** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b6e53e93-6f52-4d05-90ec-91b7bf05dbc2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).