---
type: "Bill"
title: "EARLY CHILDHOOD: Provides that the identity of a person making a complaint relative to an early learning center or certain providers or fraud pertaining to the Child Care Assistance Program shall be confidential and shall not be public record"
description: "EARLY CHILDHOOD: Provides that the identity of a person making a complaint relative to an early learning center or certain providers or fraud pertaining to the Child Care Assistance Program shall be confidential and shall not be public record"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 550"
citation: "Louisiana HB 550 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Christopher Turner"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-03-29"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/626b892c-a9d1-4890-93a2-72ab6b1891b0"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236400"
source_hash: "4a88e067f3a8793c5e743e36d5ebe5e9197ca038c28bcea54633ddbdf135ea5c"
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 550 (2019) — EARLY CHILDHOOD: Provides that the identity of a person making a complaint relative to an early learning center or certain providers or fraud pertaining to the Child Care Assistance Program shall be confidential and shall not be public record

## Version chain

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

1. **HB550 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1122239)
2. **HB550 Act 244** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144108)
3. **HB550 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1133912)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3037, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1140457)
5. **HB550 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1142112)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#908) — **97–2** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#570) — **90–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#852) — **36–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Christopher Turner — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 244. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-04** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-03** Read by title, roll called, yeas 97, nays 2, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2019-06-02** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/03/19.
- **2019-06-02** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2019-06-02** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 2 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-31** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-28** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-27** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-23** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/23/19.
- **2019-05-22** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-21** Reported favorably (8-0).
- **2019-05-15** Read by title, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
- **2019-05-14** Reported favorably (9-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/626b892c-a9d1-4890-93a2-72ab6b1891b0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).