---
type: "Bill"
title: "HIGHER EDUCATION: Requires certain postsecondary education students to complete an anti-hazing course (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "HIGHER EDUCATION: Requires certain postsecondary education students to complete an anti-hazing course (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 279"
citation: "Louisiana HB 279 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Delisha Boyd"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-02"
last_action: "2025-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c4feb90b-95ae-40c1-891a-ad3907443cca"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248244"
source_hash: "b39cadf9124b4f6953758dfdaab5bb1cff15d6a188d56f5ac80c164fc1d23b27"
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 279 (2025) — HIGHER EDUCATION: Requires certain postsecondary education students to complete an anti-hazing course (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB279 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1402109)
2. **HB279 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425098)
3. **HB279 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414989)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #2238, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411336)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2886, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414938)
6. **HB279 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420766)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#603) — **81–1** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#583) — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Delisha Boyd — primary (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson-Andrews — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
- Valarie Hodges — 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. 174. `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`
- **2025-06-01** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-29** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-28** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-27** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 81, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-21** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/2025.
- **2025-05-21** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-21** Discharged from the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2025-05-15** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2025-05-14** Reported with amendments (11-0) with recommendation to recommit to the Committee on Appropriations. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `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/c4feb90b-95ae-40c1-891a-ad3907443cca`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).