---
type: "Bill"
title: "STUDENTS: Confirms the protections of free speech and First Amendment protected activities on college and university campuses. (gov sig)"
description: "STUDENTS: Confirms the protections of free speech and First Amendment protected activities on college and university campuses. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 294"
citation: "Louisiana SB 294 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Valarie Hodges"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4667fc6c-1258-44c2-bb44-e1203cbd610a"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246575"
source_hash: "a4b766b2fd93356e1a6cb57d280ecb7cf63d70fcdce6eba2da067675988183c2"
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 SB 294 (2024) — STUDENTS: Confirms the protections of free speech and First Amendment protected activities on college and university campuses. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB294 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352665)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #4587, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374270)
3. **House Floor Amendment, #5052, Glorioso, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377731)
4. **SB294 Act 584** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382245)
5. **SB294 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371328)
6. **SB294 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372435)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2681, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369845)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2934, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371187)
9. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #3152, Hodges, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372308)
10. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2991, Miller, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371490)
11. **SB294 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379124)

## Votes

- CO-AUTHORS (#538) — **8–0** (fail) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#537) — **28–11** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR (#1194) — **27–8** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1303) — **73–23** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Valarie Hodges — primary (person)
- Adam Bass — cosponsor (person)
- Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
- Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
- Josh Carlson — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Melerine — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas Pressly — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-11** Effective date 6/11/2024.
- **2024-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 584. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-31** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-30** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-05-29** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-28** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 27 yeas and 8 nays.
- **2024-05-22** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-22** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 73, nays 23. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/2024.
- **2024-05-20** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-15** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-05-14** Reported with amendments (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-08** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-05-07** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 28 yeas and 11 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-06** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-05-01** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4667fc6c-1258-44c2-bb44-e1203cbd610a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).