republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2021/hb-394.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "HIGHER EDUCATION: Requires postsecondary education institutions to post reports relative to campus security policies and campus crime statistics on their websites (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)"
description: "HIGHER EDUCATION: Requires postsecondary education institutions to post reports relative to campus security policies and campus crime statistics on their websites (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 394"
citation: "Louisiana HB 394 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Neil Riser"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 25
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-04-01"
last_action: "2021-06-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/641ed2b1-4e3a-4300-9588-85569e8f21de"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240306"
source_hash: "63f5b63b4765b813798c51893600b3da64894b74f8e6af3ce36a9feb22458d4e"
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 394 (2021) — HIGHER EDUCATION: Requires postsecondary education institutions to post reports relative to campus security policies and campus crime statistics on their websites (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB394 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1210611)
2. **HB394 Act 447** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235959)
3. **HB394 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216758)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1346, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215105)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1411, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215566)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1553, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216611)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1735, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221906)
8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2486, Mizell, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1227256)
9. **HB394 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231696)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#113) — **103–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#618) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#953) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- CO-AUTHORS (#619) — **20–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Neil Riser — primary (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)
- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
- J. Rogers Pope — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
- Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
- Karen Carter Peterson — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Louie Bernard — cosponsor (person)
- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Ward, III — cosponsor (person)
- Ronnie Johns — cosponsor (person)
- Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-22** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-22** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 447. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-03** Read by title, roll called, yeas 97, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2021-06-02** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/03/2021.
- **2021-06-02** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2021-06-01** 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`
- **2021-05-26** Read by title; made Special Order of the Day No. 1 for 6/1.
- **2021-05-26** Called from the Calendar.
- **2021-05-20** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2021-05-12** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-11** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-10** Reported favorably.
- **2021-04-29** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-28** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-04-28** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 103, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/28/2021.
- **2021-04-26** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-22** Reported with amendments (11-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021.
- **2021-04-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/641ed2b1-4e3a-4300-9588-85569e8f21de`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).