---
type: "Bill"
title: "STUDENT/DISCIPLINE: Provides relative to corporal punishment in elementary and secondary schools"
description: "STUDENT/DISCIPLINE: Provides relative to corporal punishment in elementary and secondary schools"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 242"
citation: "Louisiana HB 242 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stephanie Hilferty"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-27"
last_action: "2023-06-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/15dbf080-17a5-433d-aac1-4b03ba508fa0"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244114"
source_hash: "a3a19c1680f440ed5e0dc3c14adf1c17803581fe1087e6674523778a9805231d"
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 242 (2023) — STUDENT/DISCIPLINE: Provides relative to corporal punishment in elementary and secondary schools

## Version chain

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

1. **HB242 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1306154)
2. **HB242 Act 268** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332430)
3. **HB242 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316033)
4. **HB242 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329728)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#745) — **37–1** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#250) — **74–21** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Stephanie Hilferty — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-09** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-09** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 268. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-08** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-06** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-05** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-05** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-04** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-23** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-22** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-18** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-10** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-09** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-08** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 74, nays 21. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/08/2023.
- **2023-04-27** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-26** Reported favorably (9-1-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-27** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/15dbf080-17a5-433d-aac1-4b03ba508fa0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).