republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2021/hb-421.md

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Bill	SCHOOLS: Authorizes public school governing authorities to establish learning pods for the purpose of providing small group instruction for students enrolled in public schools	SCHOOLS: Authorizes public school governing authorities to establish learning pods for the purpose of providing small group instruction for students enrolled in public schools	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2021	HB 421	Louisiana HB 421 (2021)	bill		enacted	Julie Emerson	9	19	2	2021-04-01	2021-06-16	openstates	ocd-bill/571b6e35-6cb8-48e5-a765-169f2b978760	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240351	2197aba47cfb8d1c8f9162327598055afd380276435cbdc39dc7a6e1cd0ea60e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 421 (2021) — SCHOOLS: Authorizes public school governing authorities to establish learning pods for the purpose of providing small group instruction for students enrolled in public schools

Version chain

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

1. HB421 Original (filed) — source
2. HB421 Act 400 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB421 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB421 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #1833, EDUC, Draft (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #2333, EDUC, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. House Floor Amendment, #2494, Emerson, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1692, Horton, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. HB421 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#413) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#824) — 36–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Julie Emerson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-06-16 Effective date: 06/16/2021.
• 2021-06-16 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 400. executive-signature
• 2021-06-11 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2021-06-09 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2021-06-08 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2021-06-07 Received from the Senate without amendments.
• 2021-06-06 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
• 2021-06-03 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2021-06-02 Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2021-05-17 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. referral-committee
• 2021-05-13 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
• 2021-05-12 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2021-05-06 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/12/2021.
• 2021-05-06 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2021-05-05 Reported with amendments (8-0).
• 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; origin ocd-bill/571b6e35-6cb8-48e5-a765-169f2b978760. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).