---
type: "Bill"
title: "CURRICULA: Provides relative to discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in public schools"
description: "CURRICULA: Provides relative to discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in public schools"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 122"
citation: "Louisiana HB 122 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dodie Horton"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 20
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-02-22"
last_action: "2024-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bf73381a-2c11-4983-8104-c64188ee4a1c"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245686"
source_hash: "584f7b2c88182c1acad277f0af5025f8b7b50bee098de2ee87a15383ef545d98"
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 122 (2024) — CURRICULA: Provides relative to discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in public schools

## Version chain

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

1. **HB122 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1345061)
2. **HB122 Act 681** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382702)
3. **HB122 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364420)
4. **HB122 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366197)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #2803, Freiberg, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364805)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #2986, Freiberg, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365355)
7. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1875, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364607)
8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #4206, Duplessis, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378467)
9. **HB122 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378580)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#526) — **69–28** (pass) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 2986 BY FREIBERG, MOTION TO ADOPT (#525) — **30–65** (fail) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1167) — **28–7** (pass) · upper
- AMENDMENT # 2803 BY FREIBERG, MOTION TO ADOPT (#524) — **28–66** (fail) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 4206 BY DUPLESSIS, HB 122 BY HORTON (#1166) — **9–26** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dodie Horton — primary (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Danny McCormick — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
- Raymond Crews — 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. 681. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-31** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-28** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-28** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-28** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-23** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 28 yeas and 7 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-21** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-20** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-16** Reported favorably. `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 28. 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, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-10** Reported favorably (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/bf73381a-2c11-4983-8104-c64188ee4a1c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).