---
type: "Bill"
title: "VACCINES/VACCINATION: Requires that communication issued about immunization requirements include exemption information and applies exemptions not only to students seeking to enter school but also to students attending school"
description: "VACCINES/VACCINATION: Requires that communication issued about immunization requirements include exemption information and applies exemptions not only to students seeking to enter school but also to students attending school"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 47"
citation: "Louisiana HB 47 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kathy Edmonston"]
version_count: 13
action_count: 36
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-01-30"
last_action: "2024-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8d2efb44-f524-4fbe-9469-b4e2a149cd09"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245567"
source_hash: "0b5e30665415d88ccbae7c107242d1999e28bcd726591b7191760f214a43ec6b"
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 47 (2024) — VACCINES/VACCINATION: Requires that communication issued about immunization requirements include exemption information and applies exemptions not only to students seeking to enter school but also to students attending school

## Version chain

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

1. **HB47 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1341642)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #5231, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379546)
3. **HB47 Act 675** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382696)
4. **HB47 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358783)
5. **HB47 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362229)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #2318, Domangue, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362007)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3275, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372859)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3288, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372885)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3312, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1373013)
10. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3987, Jackson-Andrews, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1376969)
11. **Senate Floor Amendment, #4214, Luneau, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378485)
12. **Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #3350, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1373402)
13. **HB47 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381500)

## Votes

- AMENDMENT # 2318 BY DOMANGUE, MOTION TO ADOPT (#227) — **51–50** (fail) · lower
- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1571) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT (#1452) — **25–10** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#228) — **77–28** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1243) — **26–10** (pass) · upper
- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1717) — **69–27** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kathy Edmonston — primary (person)
- Lauren Ventrella — 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. 675. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-06-04** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-03** Signed by the President of the Senate on 6/4/2024.
- **2024-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-06-03** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2024-06-02** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 25 yeas and 10 nays.
- **2024-05-31** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2024-05-31** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 69, nays 27. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2024-05-31** Rules suspended.
- **2024-05-31** Conference committee report received.
- **2024-05-31** Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules.
- **2024-05-30** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2024-05-29** Senate conference committee members appointed: Edmonds, Jackson-Andrews, and Miguez.
- **2024-05-29** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2024-05-29** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
- **2024-05-29** House conferees appointed: Edmonston, Schlegel, and Ventrella.
- **2024-05-29** Read by title, roll called, yeas 94, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
- **2024-05-28** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2024.
- **2024-05-28** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-28** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 26 yeas and 10 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-28** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2024-05-21** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2024-05-14** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-13** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-08** Reported with amendments. `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. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-03** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 77, nays 28. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/03/2024.
- **2024-04-02** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-03-27** Reported favorably (13-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/2/2024.
- **2024-01-30** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-30** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8d2efb44-f524-4fbe-9469-b4e2a149cd09`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).