--- type: "Bill" title: "EARLY CHILDHOOD: Recreates the Early Childhood Care and Education Commission" description: "EARLY CHILDHOOD: Recreates the Early Childhood Care and Education Commission" jurisdiction: "us/states/la" legislature: "Louisiana Legislature" session: "2020" identifier: "HB 251" citation: "Louisiana HB 251 (2020)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: [] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Stephanie Hilferty"] version_count: 9 action_count: 19 vote_count: 3 first_action: "2020-02-26" last_action: "2020-06-11" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/edc964e3-7d49-49fb-9e7c-be30ca80e7d8" source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237803" source_hash: "6e64a06536133b424ed6b7d7c809f0b2dc2f6a5639c1376e470f5f83e6c43c49" 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 251 (2020) — EARLY CHILDHOOD: Recreates the Early Childhood Care and Education Commission ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **HB251 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1159974) 2. **HB251 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1181913) 3. **HB251 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169595) 4. **HB251 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1173298) 5. **House Committee Amendment, #1049, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1164807) 6. **House Committee Amendment, #1502, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169552) 7. **House Floor Amendment, #1615, Hilferty, Proposed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170175) 8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1946, Mizell, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1175805) 9. **HB251 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1178334) ## Votes - CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#649) — **98–0** (pass) · lower - FINAL PASSAGE (#362) — **37–0** (pass) · upper - HB 251 BY HILFERTY (#72) — **94–0** (pass) · lower ## Sponsors - Stephanie Hilferty — primary (person) - Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person) - Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person) - Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person) - C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person) - C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person) - Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person) - Chad Brown — cosponsor (person) - Charles Owen — cosponsor (person) - Clay Schexnayder — cosponsor (person) - Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person) - Daryl Deshotel — cosponsor (person) - Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person) - Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person) - Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person) - Frederick D. Jones — cosponsor (person) - Gary Carter — cosponsor (person) - Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person) - Jeremy LaCombe — cosponsor (person) - Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person) - John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — cosponsor (person) - Joseph Marino — cosponsor (person) - Ken Brass — cosponsor (person) - Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person) - Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person) - Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person) - Larry Selders — cosponsor (person) - Les Farnum — cosponsor (person) - Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person) - Malinda White — cosponsor (person) - Mandie Landry — cosponsor (person) - Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person) - Mark Wright — cosponsor (person) - Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person) - Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person) - Pat Moore — cosponsor (person) - Paula Davis — cosponsor (person) - Polly Thomas — cosponsor (person) - Randal L. Gaines — cosponsor (person) - Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person) - Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person) - Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person) - Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person) - Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person) - Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person) - Scott McKnight — cosponsor (person) - Sherman Q. Mack — cosponsor (person) - Thomas Pressly — cosponsor (person) - Timothy P. Kerner — cosponsor (person) - Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person) - Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person) - Vincent J. St. Blanc , III — cosponsor (person) - Wayne McMahen — cosponsor (person) - Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2020-06-11** Effective date: See Act. - **2020-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 180. `executive-signature` - **2020-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt` - **2020-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate. - **2020-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. - **2020-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 98, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in. - **2020-05-27** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/20. - **2020-05-27** Received from the Senate with amendments. - **2020-05-26** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage` - **2020-05-22** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. - **2020-05-21** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. - **2020-05-18** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee` - **2020-05-15** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage` - **2020-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/20. - **2020-05-13** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. - **2020-05-07** Reported with amendments (12-0). - **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee` - **2020-02-26** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee` - **2020-02-26** Prefiled. `filing` ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/edc964e3-7d49-49fb-9e7c-be30ca80e7d8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).