---
type: "Bill"
title: "ETHICS/NEPOTISM: Provides an exception to allow immediate family members of a coach of a collegiate athletic program to be employed on the staff of that program"
description: "ETHICS/NEPOTISM: Provides an exception to allow immediate family members of a coach of a collegiate athletic program to be employed on the staff of that program"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 81"
citation: "Louisiana HB 81 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Christopher Turner"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-14"
last_action: "2020-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/303d53a8-3e05-4399-a36b-90a9ac34e6e7"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237504"
source_hash: "6fe597052c54fc9a0adc3a4e6216314062f802fe7be1b2b236936442752bc107"
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 81 (2020) — ETHICS/NEPOTISM: Provides an exception to allow immediate family members of a coach of a collegiate athletic program to be employed on the staff of that program

## Version chain

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

1. **HB81 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1154953)
2. **HB81 Act 9** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1180182)
3. **HB81 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169922)
4. **HB81 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176727)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#385) — **34–1** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#144) — **92–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Christopher Turner — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-04** Effective date: 06/04/2020.
- **2020-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 9. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-05-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-28** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-27** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2020-05-27** Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-21** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-20** 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 Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 3. 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, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-07** Reported favorably (14-0).
- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-14** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/14/2020.
- **2020-02-14** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-14** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/303d53a8-3e05-4399-a36b-90a9ac34e6e7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).