---
type: "Bill"
title: "EMPLOYMENT OF MINORS: Requires a recreation or meal period for minors under sixteen years of age"
description: "EMPLOYMENT OF MINORS: Requires a recreation or meal period for minors under sixteen years of age"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 156"
citation: "Louisiana HB 156 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Roger Wilder III"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-02-23"
last_action: "2024-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a9f101e0-21c9-4a67-ace1-63a9f6590a70"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245720"
source_hash: "b7865cbc3597597a9be22d53d4d1fc8e69d48091e6a247a939e2ff6b9e1393f6"
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 156 (2024) — EMPLOYMENT OF MINORS: Requires a recreation or meal period for minors under sixteen years of age

## Version chain

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

1. **HB156 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1345892)
2. **HB156 Act 603** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382332)
3. **HB156 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367119)
4. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3792, Coussan, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375723)
5. **HB156 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379968)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#701) — **61–37** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1535) — **63–28** (pass) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 3792 BY COUSSAN, HB 156 BY WILDER (#1051) — **25–11** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1052) — **26–11** (pass) · upper
- MODIFY TIME LIMITS (#700) — **42–50** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Roger Wilder III — primary (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Danny McCormick — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
- Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 603. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-06-04** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-30** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-29** Read by title, roll called, yeas 63, nays 28, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-05-22** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2024.
- **2024-05-22** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-21** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 26 yeas and 11 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-14** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-13** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-08** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-29** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-24** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-24** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 61, nays 37. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/24/2024.
- **2024-04-22** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-18** Reported favorably (10-3). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-23** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/23/2024.
- **2024-02-23** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-23** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a9f101e0-21c9-4a67-ace1-63a9f6590a70`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).