---
type: "Bill"
title: "EDUCATION: Requires the state Department of Education to develop and distribute health and safety guidelines relative to best practices for the use of digital devices in public schools"
description: "EDUCATION: Requires the state Department of Education to develop and distribute health and safety guidelines relative to best practices for the use of digital devices in public schools"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 548"
citation: "Louisiana HB 548 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aimee Adatto Freeman"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-03-03"
last_action: "2022-05-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/41d09099-5e02-483a-b2ca-fbe72f3ff99f"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242336"
source_hash: "dc5b910259b1998fb11aed894355dc9b1b45289e8b2ce72e4d518120bb0fa558"
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 548 (2022) — EDUCATION: Requires the state Department of Education to develop and distribute health and safety guidelines relative to best practices for the use of digital devices in public schools

## Version chain

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

1. **HB548 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1256631)
2. **HB548 Act 222** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1286794)
3. **HB548 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261758)
4. **HB548 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1266649)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1359, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1260131)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1564, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261689)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #1690, Freeman, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1262617)
8. **HB548 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1282364)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#153) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#768) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Aimee Adatto Freeman — primary (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- Laurie Schlegel — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-31** Effective date: 05/31/2022.
- **2022-05-31** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 222. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-26** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-25** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-24** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-23** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2022-05-23** 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`
- **2022-05-16** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-05-15** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-05-12** Reported favorably.
- **2022-04-07** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-06** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-04-05** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-03-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/05/2022.
- **2022-03-24** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-03-23** Reported with amendments (10-0).
- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-04** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/4/2022.
- **2022-03-03** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-03** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/41d09099-5e02-483a-b2ca-fbe72f3ff99f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).