---
type: "Bill"
title: "EDUCATION: Provides relative to the provision of cardiac health information to student athletes and their parents"
description: "EDUCATION: Provides relative to the provision of cardiac health information to student athletes and their parents"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 252"
citation: "Louisiana HB 252 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mike Johnson"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-02-27"
last_action: "2024-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/057b18fb-fde8-46ad-90db-b6b7546ecc2d"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245876"
source_hash: "b81e2ee942696ab65ea29276a80726a11cdc3df3e13e90fa8b47c7ae07e1bb3f"
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 252 (2024) — EDUCATION: Provides relative to the provision of cardiac health information to student athletes and their parents

## Version chain

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

1. **HB252 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1348035)
2. **HB252 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381898)
3. **HB252 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366643)
4. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #3216, Hodges, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372638)
5. **HB252 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377151)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1179) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#687) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#659) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mike Johnson — primary (person)
- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
- Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Melerine — cosponsor (person)
- Rashid Young — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (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. 421. `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. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 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** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-01** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-29** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-24** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-24** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/24/2024.
- **2024-04-18** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-17** Reported favorably (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-27** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/057b18fb-fde8-46ad-90db-b6b7546ecc2d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).