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Bill	LIABILITY/PUBLIC: Provides relative to limitations of liability for public and private school districts and postsecondary institutions during a declared state of emergency or a public health emergency (Item #40)	LIABILITY/PUBLIC: Provides relative to limitations of liability for public and private school districts and postsecondary institutions during a declared state of emergency or a public health emergency (Item #40)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2020s1	HB 59	Louisiana HB 59 (2020s1)	bill		enacted	Buddy Mincey	16	31	6	2020-06-09	2020-07-08	openstates	ocd-bill/1b52f5a5-dcde-4a07-be4b-2f7de6f3b964	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239221	a270b4f28a371c088d6578310869919714d6d643dceb733fd9c36bf2b0b5c784	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 59 (2020s1) — LIABILITY/PUBLIC: Provides relative to limitations of liability for public and private school districts and postsecondary institutions during a declared state of emergency or a public health emergency (Item #40)

Version chain

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

1. HB59 Original (filed) — source
2. Conference Committee Report, #574, House Adopted, Senate Adopted (committee substitute) — source
3. HB59 Act 9 (committee substitute) — source
4. HB59 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. HB59 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #304, CL&P, Draft (committee substitute) — source
7. House Committee Amendment, #383, CL&P, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. House Floor Amendment, #467, Mincey, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. Senate Committee Amendment, #489, EDUC, Draft (committee substitute) — source
10. Senate Committee Amendment, #521, EDUC, Draft (committee substitute) — source
11. Senate Committee Amendment, #545, EDUC, Draft (committee substitute) — source
12. Senate Committee Amendment, #547, EDUC, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
13. Senate Floor Amendment, #566, Bouie, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
14. Senate Floor Amendment, #569, Fields, Withdrawn (committee substitute) — source
15. Senate Floor Amendment, #571, Fields, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
16. HB59 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#171) — 83–15 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#93) — 82–17 (pass) · lower
• ADOPT (#192) — 36–1 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#154) — 33–2 (pass) · upper
• MOTION TO ADOPT (#193) — 55–40 (pass) · lower
• 3 MINUTE RULE (#192) — 54–38 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Buddy Mincey — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-07-08 Effective date: 03/11/2020.
• 2020-07-08 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 9. executive-signature
• 2020-07-01 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2020-06-30 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2020-06-30 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2020-06-30 Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
• 2020-06-30 Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 36 yeas and 1 nays.
• 2020-06-30 Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
• 2020-06-30 Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 55, nays 40. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
• 2020-06-30 Rules suspended.
• 2020-06-30 Conference Committee report received.
• 2020-06-30 Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
• 2020-06-30 Senate conference committee members appointed: Fields, Pope, and Mizell.
• 2020-06-30 Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
• 2020-06-30 Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
• 2020-06-29 House conferees appointed: Mincey, Bishop, and Schexnayder.
• 2020-06-29 Read by title, roll called, yeas 83, nays 15, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
• 2020-06-29 Received from the Senate with amendments.
• 2020-06-29 Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 2 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2020-06-28 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2020-06-28 Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2020-06-24 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. referral-committee
• 2020-06-23 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
• 2020-06-23 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 82, nays 17. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2020-06-22 Scheduled for floor debate on 06/23/20.
• 2020-06-22 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2020-06-18 Reported with amendments (14-0-1).
• 2020-06-15 Read by title, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. referral-committee
• 2020-06-15 Called from the calendar.
• 2020-06-10 Read by title, returned to the calendar.
• 2020-06-09 Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1b52f5a5-dcde-4a07-be4b-2f7de6f3b964. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).