---
type: "Bill"
title: "COLLEGES/UNIVERSITIES: Provides relative to campus accountability and safety."
description: "COLLEGES/UNIVERSITIES: Provides relative to campus accountability and safety."
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 202"
citation: "Louisiana SB 202 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Regina Ashford Barrow"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-31"
last_action: "2023-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c21a8291-3b65-45a0-b62c-8c7413db2513"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244626"
source_hash: "520dfc6a36a367cfe2e6046b485f1c39e4c6411911a6b9be4752d69510f8aa97"
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 202 (2023) — COLLEGES/UNIVERSITIES: Provides relative to campus accountability and safety.

## Version chain

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

1. **SB202 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1310016)
2. **House Floor Amendment, #3845, Freeman, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1327988)
3. **SB202 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332221)
4. **SB202 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316933)
5. **SB202 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320477)
6. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #1202, Barrow, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318027)
7. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1075, Mills, Fred, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317149)
8. **SB202 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329326)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#813) — **54–43** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#254) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR (#660) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Regina Ashford Barrow — primary (person)
- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-08** Effective date 6/8/2023.
- **2023-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 211. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-06** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-05** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2023-06-05** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-04** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2023-05-31** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-31** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 54, nays 43. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-31** Called from the calendar.
- **2023-05-30** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/31/2023.
- **2023-05-30** Notice given.
- **2023-05-30** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2023-05-25** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/30/2023.
- **2023-05-18** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-17** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2023-05-16** Reported favorably (8-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-10** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2023-05-09** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-01** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title; ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-31** 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/c21a8291-3b65-45a0-b62c-8c7413db2513`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).