---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIMINAL/PENALTIES: Provides relative to penalties for the unlawful disruption of the operation of a school (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
description: "CRIMINAL/PENALTIES: Provides relative to penalties for the unlawful disruption of the operation of a school (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 824"
citation: "Louisiana HB 824 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["C. Denise Marcelle"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-04-02"
last_action: "2024-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fcf9457b-0350-4c75-ac0f-2cd602ec4742"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246973"
source_hash: "fac3859e3194ff9e7a29cdcc839192487154d76b15297e4833a3e778761e983a"
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 824 (2024) — CRIMINAL/PENALTIES: Provides relative to penalties for the unlawful disruption of the operation of a school (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB824 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1360190)
2. **HB824 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381956)
3. **HB824 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363804)
4. **HB824 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366265)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #3138, Marcelle, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365994)
6. **HB824 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375749)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#536) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- CO-AUTHORS (#903) — **8–0** (fail) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#902) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- C. Denise Marcelle — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Chad Boyer — cosponsor (person)
- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Debbie Villio — cosponsor (person)
- Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
- Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffery "Jeff" Wiley — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson-Andrews — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Lauren Ventrella — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent Cox III — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-03** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-03** Becomes Act No. 476 without the Governor's signature. `became-law`
- **2024-05-21** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-20** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-20** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-20** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-06** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-01** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-04-30** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-17** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-16** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-16** Called from the calendar.
- **2024-04-16** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2024-04-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/16/2024.
- **2024-04-10** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-09** Reported favorably (9-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-02** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fcf9457b-0350-4c75-ac0f-2cd602ec4742`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).