---
type: "Bill"
title: "ETHICS/NEPOTISM: Provides relative to the deadline for filing disclosures of the employment of an immediate family member of a school board member or school superintendent"
description: "ETHICS/NEPOTISM: Provides relative to the deadline for filing disclosures of the employment of an immediate family member of a school board member or school superintendent"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 475"
citation: "Louisiana HB 475 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Polly Thomas"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-03-03"
last_action: "2022-05-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6bc99b15-0609-45be-a8cf-baefc8b27954"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242207"
source_hash: "c19e7b9d804428f6af6cbcdaf3b792dfa2d8b902ffa9f7b5aa998d34c96f7319"
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 475 (2022) — ETHICS/NEPOTISM: Provides relative to the deadline for filing disclosures of the employment of an immediate family member of a school board member or school superintendent

## Version chain

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

1. **HB475 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1255671)
2. **HB475 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1280958)
3. **HB475 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261715)
4. **HB475 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1278470)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#143) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#551) — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Polly Thomas — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-17** Effective date: 08/01/2022.
- **2022-05-17** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 50. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-13** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-12** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-12** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-11** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2022-05-11** Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-05-10** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-05-09** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-05-04** Reported favorably.
- **2022-04-05** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-04** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-04-04** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-03-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/04/2022.
- **2022-03-24** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-03-23** Reported favorably (11-0).
- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-04** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/4/2022.
- **2022-03-03** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-03** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6bc99b15-0609-45be-a8cf-baefc8b27954`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).