---
type: "Bill"
title: "EDUCATION: Provides relative to the use of certain names and pronouns for students"
description: "EDUCATION: Provides relative to the use of certain names and pronouns for students"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 121"
citation: "Louisiana HB 121 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Raymond Crews"]
version_count: 15
action_count: 26
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2024-02-22"
last_action: "2024-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/754ed5ee-3c42-431b-82c1-26b3bd68e135"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245685"
source_hash: "6dc1547f19607f0a879a9aaf87b181aa2e888028c5f7f216d019ee5953bf4ef9"
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 121 (2024) — EDUCATION: Provides relative to the use of certain names and pronouns for students

## Version chain

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

1. **HB121 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1345060)
2. **HB121 Act 680** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382701)
3. **HB121 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364469)
4. **HB121 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366386)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2665, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363818)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2747, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364457)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2804, Freiberg, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364778)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #3130, Crews, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366003)
9. **House Floor Amendment, #3144, Freiberg, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366043)
10. **House Floor Amendment, #3158, Hughes, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366108)
11. **House Floor Amendment, #3166, Schlegel, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366129)
12. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3610, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374737)
13. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3735, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375367)
14. **Senate Floor Amendment, #4249, Seabaugh, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378741)
15. **HB121 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380487)

## Votes

- CO-AUTHORS (#1328) — **6–0** (fail) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#522) — **69–29** (pass) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 3166 BY SCHLEGEL, MOTION TO ADOPT (#521) — **59–37** (pass) · lower
- MODIFY TIME LIMITS (#520) — **27–69** (fail) · lower
- SUSPEND THE RULES (#1638) — **55–27** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1639) — **60–31** (pass) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 3144 BY FREIBERG, MOTION TO ADOPT (#519) — **38–63** (fail) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1327) — **27–9** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Raymond Crews — primary (person)
- Adam Bass — cosponsor (person)
- Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
- Danny McCormick — cosponsor (person)
- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
- Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
- Jeremy Stine — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
- Valarie Hodges — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-19** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-19** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 680. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-06-04** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-31** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-30** Read by title, roll called, yeas 60, nays 31, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-05-30** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/30/2024.
- **2024-05-30** Rules suspended.
- **2024-05-30** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-29** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 27 yeas and 9 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-29** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2024-05-23** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2024-05-23** Rules suspended.
- **2024-05-21** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-20** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-16** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-17** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-16** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 69, nays 29. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/16/2024.
- **2024-04-11** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-10** Reported with amendments (9-3). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-23** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/23/2024.
- **2024-02-22** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-22** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/754ed5ee-3c42-431b-82c1-26b3bd68e135`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).