--- type: "Bill" title: "SCHOOLS: Provides for safety protocols for elementary school students when being dropped off at and picked up from school" description: "SCHOOLS: Provides for safety protocols for elementary school students when being dropped off at and picked up from school" jurisdiction: "us/states/la" legislature: "Louisiana Legislature" session: "2023" identifier: "HB 169" citation: "Louisiana HB 169 (2023)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: [] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Robert \"Bob\" Owen"] version_count: 11 action_count: 34 vote_count: 5 first_action: "2023-03-23" last_action: "2023-06-14" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a70bb9e4-4a89-4a13-b961-0e0abb7ff291" source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244027" source_hash: "3888899282f9076187e21b8be28b596eae46910475d47b9b6e6255d0d4c729cc" 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 169 (2023) — SCHOOLS: Provides for safety protocols for elementary school students when being dropped off at and picked up from school ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **HB169 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1304915) 2. **Conference Committee Report, #4238, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331592) 3. **HB169 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332520) 4. **HB169 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320741) 5. **HB169 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323841) 6. **House Floor Amendment, #3208, Owen, Robert, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323780) 7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2360, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326658) 8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2379, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326718) 9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2719, Mizell, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328848) 10. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2789, Peacock, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329228) 11. **HB169 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331946) ## Votes - ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1212) — **91–1** (pass) · lower - FINAL PASSAGE (#523) — **99–0** (pass) · lower - REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1055) — **99–0** (pass) · lower - FINAL PASSAGE (#788) — **37–0** (pass) · upper - ADOPT (#1027) — **38–0** (pass) · upper ## Sponsors - Robert "Bob" Owen — primary (person) - Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person) - Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person) - Charles Owen — cosponsor (person) - Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person) - Ken Brass — cosponsor (person) - Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person) - Phillip Tarver — cosponsor (person) - Vincent J. St. Blanc , III — cosponsor (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2023-06-14** Effective date: 08/01/2023. - **2023-06-14** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 362. `became-law, executive-signature` - **2023-06-12** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt` - **2023-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate on 6/9/2023. - **2023-06-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled` - **2023-06-08** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays. - **2023-06-08** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report. - **2023-06-08** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 91, nays 1. The Conference Committee Report was adopted. - **2023-06-08** Rules suspended. - **2023-06-08** Conference Committee report received. - **2023-06-07** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed. - **2023-06-07** House conferees appointed: Robert Owen, Harris, and St. Blanc. - **2023-06-07** Notice of Senate conferees appointed. - **2023-06-06** Senate conference committee members appointed: Fields, Peacock, and Mizell. - **2023-06-06** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments. - **2023-06-06** Read by title, roll called, yeas 99, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending. - **2023-06-05** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/06/2023. - **2023-06-05** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt` - **2023-06-04** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage` - **2023-06-02** Senate floor amendments read and adopted; read by title and returned to its regular order on third reading and final passage. - **2023-06-02** Rules suspended. - **2023-05-31** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3` - **2023-05-30** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. - **2023-05-29** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable` - **2023-05-23** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee` - **2023-05-22** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1` - **2023-05-18** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage` - **2023-05-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/18/2023. - **2023-05-11** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3` - **2023-05-10** Reported favorably (10-0). `committee-passage-favorable` - **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee` - **2023-03-24** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/24/2023. - **2023-03-23** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee` - **2023-03-23** Prefiled. `filing` ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a70bb9e4-4a89-4a13-b961-0e0abb7ff291`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).