---
type: "Bill"
title: "SCHOOLS: Requires the display of the Ten Commandments in schools"
description: "SCHOOLS: Requires the display of the Ten Commandments in schools"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 71"
citation: "Louisiana HB 71 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dodie Horton"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 22
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2024-02-08"
last_action: "2024-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/93c740ae-6e5c-425c-98d2-a9f29f166a90"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245592"
source_hash: "85462427bb9c274daea8ff9d369992c17dae397352028570fce14262d8ae358c"
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 71 (2024) — SCHOOLS: Requires the display of the Ten Commandments in schools

## Version chain

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

1. **HB71 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1342719)
2. **HB71 Act 676** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382697)
3. **HB71 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362347)
4. **HB71 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364576)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #2749, Landry, Mandie, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364454)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #2754, Hughes, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364464)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2755, Hughes, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364461)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #2758, Walters, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364467)
9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3759, Morris, Jay, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375508)
10. **HB71 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379435)

## Votes

- AMENDMENT # 2754 BY HUGHES, MOTION TO ADOPT (#379) — **70–29** (pass) · lower
- CO-AUTHORS (#906) — **17–0** (fail) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#905) — **30–8** (pass) · upper
- AMENDMENT # 2749 BY LANDRY, M., MOTION TO ADOPT (#377) — **29–69** (fail) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#381) — **82–19** (pass) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 2758 BY WALTERS, MOTION TO ADOPT (#380) — **30–69** (fail) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1466) — **79–16** (pass) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 2755 BY HUGHES, MOTION TO ADOPT (#378) — **43–57** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dodie Horton — primary (person)
- Adam Bass — cosponsor (person)
- Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
- Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
- Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
- Chad Boyer — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Dennis Bamburg Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
- Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
- Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Dewitt — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Galle — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffery "Jeff" Wiley — cosponsor (person)
- Jeremy Stine — cosponsor (person)
- Josh Carlson — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
- Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
- Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
- Lauren Ventrella — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person)
- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Melerine — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
- Neil Riser — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
- Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
- Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)
- Shane Mack — cosponsor (person)
- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy P. Kerner — cosponsor (person)
- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
- Valarie Hodges — cosponsor (person)
- William "Bill" Wheat , Jr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-19** Effective date: 06/19/2024.
- **2024-06-19** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 676. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-06-04** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-30** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-28** Read by title, roll called, yeas 79, nays 16, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-05-22** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/28/2024.
- **2024-05-20** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 30 yeas and 8 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`
- **2024-04-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-15** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-10** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 82, nays 19. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-09** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/10/2024.
- **2024-04-08** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-04** Reported favorably (10-3). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-09** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/9/2024.
- **2024-02-08** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-08** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/93c740ae-6e5c-425c-98d2-a9f29f166a90`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).