---
type: "Bill"
title: "HIGHER EDUCATION: Requires that student identification cards issued by certain postsecondary education institutions meet certain requirements (Item #42)"
description: "HIGHER EDUCATION: Requires that student identification cards issued by certain postsecondary education institutions meet certain requirements (Item #42)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020s2"
identifier: "HB 48"
citation: "Louisiana HB 48 (2020s2)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Royce Duplessis"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-09-29"
last_action: "2020-10-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/37383cfa-0bff-4309-94d4-0c74b8564ebe"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239506"
source_hash: "9eea67a79463f279e6dccf5a897389fec137b02dfe31b7193b470cba6c900de5"
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 48 (2020s2) — HIGHER EDUCATION: Requires that student identification cards issued by certain postsecondary education institutions meet certain requirements (Item #42)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB48 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1189563)
2. **HB48 Act 19** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1194935)
3. **HB48 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1191617)
4. **HB48 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1192431)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #342, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1191025)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #417, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1191551)
7. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #420, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1191703)
8. **HB48 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1193905)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#162) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#99) — **73–20** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Royce Duplessis — primary (person)
- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Dustin Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Edward Ted James — cosponsor (person)
- Frederick D. Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
- Mandie Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
- Randal L. Gaines — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Tammy Phelps — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-10-28** Effective date: 1/01/2023.
- **2020-10-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 19. `executive-signature`
- **2020-10-23** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-10-22** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-10-22** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-10-21** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2020-10-21** Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-10-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-10-20** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-10-14** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2020-10-13** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 73, nays 20. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-10-12** Scheduled for floor debate on 10/13/20.
- **2020-10-12** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-10-12** Rules suspended.
- **2020-10-12** Reported with amendments (12-0).
- **2020-09-29** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/37383cfa-0bff-4309-94d4-0c74b8564ebe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).