---
type: "Bill"
title: "STUDENT/DISCIPLINE: Prohibits certain types of discipline of students in elementary and secondary schools"
description: "STUDENT/DISCIPLINE: Prohibits certain types of discipline of students in elementary and secondary schools"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 107"
citation: "Louisiana HB 107 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mike Bayham"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-02-19"
last_action: "2024-06-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/825f4571-18a4-4822-8afd-20155cb77e41"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245667"
source_hash: "81b5bb0e3e99ebafb207021a5ca2dd49feee7a2398bc3e20903cb8d26b3eb582"
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 107 (2024) — STUDENT/DISCIPLINE: Prohibits certain types of discipline of students in elementary and secondary schools

## Version chain

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

1. **HB107 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1344130)
2. **HB107 Act 780** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1383077)
3. **HB107 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362451)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3678, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375078)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3734, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375366)
6. **HB107 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379856)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#383) — **101–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1165) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1573) — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mike Bayham — primary (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Galle — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
- Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-25** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-25** Becomes Act No. 780 without the Governor's signature. `became-law`
- **2024-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-30** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-29** Read by title, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-05-28** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2024.
- **2024-05-28** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-23** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-21** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-20** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-16** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-15** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-10** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-09** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/10/2024.
- **2024-04-08** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-04** Reported favorably (13-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-23** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/23/2024.
- **2024-02-19** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-19** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/825f4571-18a4-4822-8afd-20155cb77e41`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).