---
type: "Bill"
title: "HIGHER EDUCATION: Provides relative to disciplinary proceedings for students and student organizations at public postsecondary education institutions"
description: "HIGHER EDUCATION: Provides relative to disciplinary proceedings for students and student organizations at public postsecondary education institutions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 174"
citation: "Louisiana HB 174 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dixon McMakin"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-02-26"
last_action: "2024-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f9860770-3964-402f-b44b-1fcb6ff17ec7"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245748"
source_hash: "16d1334a3147565a6e734c5c1402770ab06b3b28cfcbd9be35be4aef3b5dbe60"
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 174 (2024) — HIGHER EDUCATION: Provides relative to disciplinary proceedings for students and student organizations at public postsecondary education institutions

## Version chain

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

1. **HB174 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1346578)
2. **HB174 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381893)
3. **HB174 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364024)
4. **HB174 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365621)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2519, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363020)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2672, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363925)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2870, McMakin, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364889)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2849, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370852)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2938, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371196)
10. **HB174 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377112)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#485) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1177) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#654) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dixon McMakin — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-03** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-03** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 416. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-23** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-23** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-22** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-21** Read by title, roll called, yeas 93, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-05-20** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/21/2024.
- **2024-05-14** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-13** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-07** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-06** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-01** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-17** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-16** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-15** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/15/2024.
- **2024-04-10** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-09** Reported with amendments (13-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-26** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-26** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f9860770-3964-402f-b44b-1fcb6ff17ec7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).