---
type: "Bill"
title: "STATE SYMBOL: Establishes the official state children's Christmas book"
description: "STATE SYMBOL: Establishes the official state children's Christmas book"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 273"
citation: "Louisiana HB 273 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Annie Spell"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-02"
last_action: "2025-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c9379a6d-156e-4b12-95da-a1e33d22a299"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248208"
source_hash: "60c749a2762b3e4fa4aa268f1aaae8b7e727fb7799c16864e00ed6b28bfe36eb"
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 273 (2025) — STATE SYMBOL: Establishes the official state children's Christmas book

## Version chain

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

1. **HB273 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1401811)
2. **HB273 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425096)
3. **HB273 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410277)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1262, JUD, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405815)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2035, JUD, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410267)
6. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1164, Horton, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410638)
7. **HB273 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420757)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#582) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#294) — **89–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Annie Spell — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- Beau Beaullieu — cosponsor (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
- Chad Boyer — cosponsor (person)
- Dixon McMakin — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Jacob Braud — cosponsor (person)
- Jeremy LaCombe — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Orgeron — cosponsor (person)
- Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
- Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
- Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly Coates — cosponsor (person)
- Mandie Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
- Neil Riser — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
- Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy P. Kerner — cosponsor (person)
- Troy Hebert — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-08** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 172. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-03** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-02** Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-29** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-28** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-12** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-08** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-08** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/08/2025.
- **2025-05-05** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-30** Reported with amendments (14-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c9379a6d-156e-4b12-95da-a1e33d22a299`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).