---
type: "Bill"
title: "SCHOOLS/EMPLOYEES: Creates the \"Protect Teachers Act\""
description: "SCHOOLS/EMPLOYEES: Creates the \"Protect Teachers Act\""
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 86"
citation: "Louisiana HB 86 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Valarie Hodges"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-13"
last_action: "2023-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/520c695e-2832-4e1c-ac08-6777f10e9739"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=243929"
source_hash: "7affe25d176173fd27c7fa49d3a2869dfdc476e1e1b6827493f8401751951e95"
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 86 (2023) — SCHOOLS/EMPLOYEES: Creates the "Protect Teachers Act"

## Version chain

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

1. **HB86 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1302959)
2. **HB86 Act 56** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331221)
3. **HB86 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314870)
4. **HB86 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316971)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #1976, Boyd, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316885)
6. **HB86 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326910)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#146) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#480) — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Valarie Hodges — primary (person)
- Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Frieman — cosponsor (person)
- Laurie Schlegel — cosponsor (person)
- Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
- Paula Davis — cosponsor (person)
- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
- Sherman Q. Mack — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-06** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-06** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 56. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-05-31** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-30** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-05-30** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-30** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-26** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-23** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-22** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-18** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-02** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-01** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-04-27** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-04-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/27/2023.
- **2023-04-25** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-24** Reported favorably (11-0-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-17** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/17/2023.
- **2023-03-13** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-13** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/520c695e-2832-4e1c-ac08-6777f10e9739`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).