---
type: "Bill"
title: "EARLY CHILDHOOD: Provides that Act No. 84 of the 2023 Regular Session of the Legislature shall be known and may be cited as \"Armani's Law\""
description: "EARLY CHILDHOOD: Provides that Act No. 84 of the 2023 Regular Session of the Legislature shall be known and may be cited as \"Armani's Law\""
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 917"
citation: "Louisiana HB 917 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tammy Phelps"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-04-02"
last_action: "2024-05-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/96b31d0f-0b09-4714-8b3c-9c613c5665a0"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247119"
source_hash: "c071dcc61808fb9d32bf01293069ac6f761e3f8d6d77ac58a0d53429a8348846"
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 917 (2024) — EARLY CHILDHOOD: Provides that Act No. 84 of the 2023 Regular Session of the Legislature shall be known and may be cited as "Armani's Law"

## Version chain

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

1. **HB917 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361244)
2. **HB917 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380542)
3. **HB917 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365863)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #3019, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365493)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #3083, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365848)
6. **HB917 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375632)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#674) — **101–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#822) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Tammy Phelps — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-28** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-05-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 391. `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`
- **2024-05-15** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 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 Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-24** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-23** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/23/2024.
- **2024-04-17** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-16** Reported with amendments (13-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-02** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/96b31d0f-0b09-4714-8b3c-9c613c5665a0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).