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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "EMPLOYMENT: Provides relative to employment discrimination (EN NO IMPACT LF RV See Note)"
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description: "EMPLOYMENT: Provides relative to employment discrimination (EN NO IMPACT LF RV See Note)"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
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legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
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session: "2021"
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identifier: "HB 707"
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citation: "Louisiana HB 707 (2021)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Matthew Willard"]
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version_count: 6
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action_count: 15
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2021-05-10"
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last_action: "2021-06-16"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eb5712a1-7bb7-4f77-9824-1e71c4694c34"
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source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240988"
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source_hash: "1d24e0af72eb933f3e78a94bba2634275ee109a9aa8880cf1031b30a955ca005"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
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---
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# Louisiana HB 707 (2021) — EMPLOYMENT: Provides relative to employment discrimination (EN NO IMPACT LF RV See Note)
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **HB707 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222189)
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2. **HB707 Act 406** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235804)
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3. **HB707 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222492)
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4. **HB707 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1225412)
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5. **House Floor Amendment, #2985, Willard, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1225109)
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6. **HB707 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1233063)
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## Votes
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- FINAL PASSAGE (#480) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
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- FINAL PASSAGE (#914) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Matthew Willard — primary (person)
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- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
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- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
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- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
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- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
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- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
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- Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
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- Edward Ted James — cosponsor (person)
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- Frederick D. Jones — cosponsor (person)
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- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
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- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
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- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
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- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
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- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
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- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
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- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
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- Randal L. Gaines — cosponsor (person)
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- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
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- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
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- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
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- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2021-06-16** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
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- **2021-06-16** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 406. `executive-signature`
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- **2021-06-11** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
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- **2021-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
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- **2021-06-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
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- **2021-06-07** Received from the Senate without amendments.
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- **2021-06-07** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
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- **2021-06-03** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
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- **2021-06-02** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
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- **2021-05-19** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
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- **2021-05-18** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
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- **2021-05-17** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
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- **2021-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/17/2021.
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- **2021-05-11** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
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- **2021-05-10** Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 480 reported by the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations (11-0).
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eb5712a1-7bb7-4f77-9824-1e71c4694c34`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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