---
type: "Bill"
title: "REAPPORTIONMENT/BESE: Provides relative to the election districts for the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (Item #4)"
description: "REAPPORTIONMENT/BESE: Provides relative to the election districts for the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (Item #4)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022s1"
identifier: "HB 3"
citation: "Louisiana HB 3 (2022s1)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Polly Thomas"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 18
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2022-02-02"
last_action: "2022-03-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eafaebe4-f594-4ba3-a3db-abdccbdef802"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241509"
source_hash: "37587dbf4c6c31dbff8a8db24673d05c2be23be69a4cd4cea4f305010226aaf7"
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 3 (2022s1) — REAPPORTIONMENT/BESE: Provides relative to the election districts for the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (Item #4)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB3 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1245169)
2. **HB3 Act 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1258934)
3. **HB3 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1245942)
4. **HB3 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1246648)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #54, Carter, Wilford, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1246020)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #68, LaCombe, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1246111)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #74, Jefferson, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1246332)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #142, S&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1247359)
9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #165, Foil, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1248045)
10. **HB3 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1248247)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#41) — **27–11** (pass) · upper
- AMENDMENT # 74 BY JEFFERSON, MOTION TO ADOPT (#20) — **33–69** (fail) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#21) — **73–29** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#46) — **71–28** (pass) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 54 BY CARTER, W., MOTION TO ADOPT (#19) — **31–70** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Polly Thomas — primary (person)
- Foy Gadberry — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-03-09** Effective date: See Act.
- **2022-03-09** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 3. `executive-signature`
- **2022-02-21** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-02-18** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-02-18** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-02-18** Read by title, roll called, yeas 71, nays 28, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2022-02-17** Scheduled for concurrence on 02/18/2022.
- **2022-02-17** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2022-02-17** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 27 yeas and 11 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-02-15** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-02-15** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-02-09** 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`
- **2022-02-08** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 73, nays 29. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-02-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 02/08/2022.
- **2022-02-06** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-02-04** Reported favorably (12-5).
- **2022-02-03** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-02** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eafaebe4-f594-4ba3-a3db-abdccbdef802`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).