---
type: "Bill"
title: "VACCINES/VACCINATION: Provides that no person shall be required to receive a COVID-19 vaccine as a condition of enrollment or attendance at any public or nonpublic school"
description: "VACCINES/VACCINATION: Provides that no person shall be required to receive a COVID-19 vaccine as a condition of enrollment or attendance at any public or nonpublic school"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 46"
citation: "Louisiana HB 46 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kathy Edmonston"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-30"
last_action: "2024-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d34b3e4b-f6fa-411b-abad-7615fe0d1908"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245566"
source_hash: "7fc46781e9bacb99acd10836c38259c5dff51ddc0152dedbc65fd92ddb07f7be"
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 46 (2024) — VACCINES/VACCINATION: Provides that no person shall be required to receive a COVID-19 vaccine as a condition of enrollment or attendance at any public or nonpublic school

## Version chain

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

1. **HB46 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1341641)
2. **HB46 Act 674** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382695)
3. **HB46 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358778)
4. **Senate Floor Amendment, #4054, Hodges, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377458)
5. **HB46 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378579)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#1164) — **26–9** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#225) — **74–28** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kathy Edmonston — primary (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
- Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly Coates — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
- Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
- Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-19** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-19** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 674. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-31** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-28** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-28** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-28** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-23** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 26 yeas and 9 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-21** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-20** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-16** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-08** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-03** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-03** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 74, nays 28. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/03/2024.
- **2024-04-02** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-03-27** Reported favorably (13-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/2/2024.
- **2024-01-30** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-30** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d34b3e4b-f6fa-411b-abad-7615fe0d1908`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).