---
type: "Bill"
title: "BOARDS/COMMISSIONS: Provides relative to the Advisory Council on Historically Black Colleges and Universities"
description: "BOARDS/COMMISSIONS: Provides relative to the Advisory Council on Historically Black Colleges and Universities"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 142"
citation: "Louisiana HB 142 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Shaun Mena"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-31"
last_action: "2025-05-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4a3a57e4-e0b7-4060-aeef-cc136f81ff94"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248052"
source_hash: "cec9b0f26c0e3a03cd964226677481b9e8bc7e36da8b41e1f1779448dba841c1"
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 142 (2025) — BOARDS/COMMISSIONS: Provides relative to the Advisory Council on Historically Black Colleges and Universities

## Version chain

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

1. **HB142 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1400221)
2. **HB142 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419027)
3. **HB142 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407545)
4. **HB142 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410488)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #2018, Hughes, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410187)
6. **HB142 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416919)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#294) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#130) — **101–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Shaun Mena — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Dustin Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
- Laurie Schlegel — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-28** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-05-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 10. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-05-22** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-21** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-05-21** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-05-20** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-05-20** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-13** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-12** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-08** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-06** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-05** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-04-30** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-04-30** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-04-29** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/30/2025.
- **2025-04-29** Notice given.
- **2025-04-29** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2025-04-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/29/2025.
- **2025-04-24** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-23** Reported favorably (10-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4a3a57e4-e0b7-4060-aeef-cc136f81ff94`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).