---
type: "Bill"
title: "EARLY CHILDHOOD: Provides relative to the Early Childhood Care and Education Commission"
description: "EARLY CHILDHOOD: Provides relative to the Early Childhood Care and Education Commission"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 190"
citation: "Louisiana HB 190 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara Reich Freiberg"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-26"
last_action: "2024-05-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a1938cd6-7fed-4103-8076-aa3076425f72"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245764"
source_hash: "dd6c90c9e2b3107bd9d2a7e64cea5d4d061babfbaa7b05078126cb6fa3bfa764"
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 190 (2024) — EARLY CHILDHOOD: Provides relative to the Early Childhood Care and Education Commission

## Version chain

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

1. **HB190 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1346686)
2. **HB190 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379616)
3. **HB190 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358258)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1004, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352993)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1803, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358231)
6. **HB190 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375771)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#914) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#178) — **70–30** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Barbara Reich Freiberg — primary (person)
- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Jeremy LaCombe — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
- Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
- Paula Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Hilferty — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent Cox III — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-24** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-05-24** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 260. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-22** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-20** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-20** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-20** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-07** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-06** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-01** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-08** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-03** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-02** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 70, nays 30. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-03-27** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/02/2024.
- **2024-03-27** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-03-26** Reported with amendments (8-4). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-26** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-26** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a1938cd6-7fed-4103-8076-aa3076425f72`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).