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type: "Bill"
title: "KINDERGARTEN: Provides for mandatory kindergarten attendance and requires compulsory school attendance beginning at age five. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
description: "KINDERGARTEN: Provides for mandatory kindergarten attendance and requires compulsory school attendance beginning at age five. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 10"
citation: "Louisiana SB 10 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cleo Fields"]
version_count: 14
action_count: 35
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2021-02-22"
last_action: "2021-06-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ceef5fe2-1ce9-4ebb-9640-d8985459aa24"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239789"
source_hash: "7cb3d4ee0cd41699fcde0b5f95b47f4c852e02439d5cf37547bf10b85abd0088"
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 SB 10 (2021) — KINDERGARTEN: Provides for mandatory kindergarten attendance and requires compulsory school attendance beginning at age five. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **SB10 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1200354)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #3494, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232085)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3095, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1225549)
4. **House Floor Amendment, #3657, Amedee, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1229450)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #3773, McCormick, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231228)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #3832, Pressly, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231535)
7. **SB10 Act 386** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235875)
8. **SB10 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216064)
9. **SB10 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224184)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1819, FNCE, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222496)
11. **Senate Committee Amendment, #446, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1212651)
12. **Senate Committee Amendment, #850, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215960)
13. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #893, Mills, Fred, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216286)
14. **SB10 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1234256)
## Votes
- REJECT (#971) — **340** (pass) · upper
- CO-AUTHORS (#349) — **210** (pass) · upper
- AMENDMENT # 3657 BY AMEDEE, MOTION TO ADOPT (#960) — **3065** (fail) · lower
- PREVIOUS QUESTION (#963) — **6036** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#966) — **5933** (pass) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 3832 BY PRESSLY, MOTION TO ADOPT (#962) — **5639** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#348) — **341** (pass) · upper
- AMENDMENT # 3773 BY MCCORMICK, MOTION TO ADOPT (#961) — **3560** (fail) · lower
- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1198) — **7034** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT (#1041) — **380** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Cleo Fields — primary (person)
- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- Barrow Peacock — cosponsor (person)
- Barry Milligan — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Dustin Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
- Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Edward Ted James — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory Tarver — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
- Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Marino — cosponsor (person)
- Karen Carter Peterson — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Louie Bernard — cosponsor (person)
- Mandie Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Connick — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Mills — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Hilferty — cosponsor (person)
- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Tammy Phelps — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas Pressly — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-06-16** Effective date 6/16/2021.
- **2021-06-16** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 386. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-10** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/11/2021. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-10** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-10** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-10** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2021-06-09** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 70, nays 34. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2021-06-09** Rules suspended.
- **2021-06-09** Conference Committee report received.
- **2021-06-09** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2021-06-09** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2021-06-09** Rules suspended.
- **2021-06-09** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2021-06-09** House conferees appointed: Hughes, Wright, and Pressly.
- **2021-06-08** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2021-06-08** Senate conference committee members appointed: Fields, Abraham, and Robert Mills.
- **2021-06-08** Notice of Senate rejecting House amendments.
- **2021-06-08** Rules suspended. Amendments proposed by the House read and rejected by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2021-06-06** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2021-06-03** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 60, nays 36. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-06-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/03/2021.
- **2021-05-26** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-25** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2021-05-24** Reported favorably (19-1). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-19** Read by title, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2021-05-18** Reported without action, (9-0) with recommendation to recommit to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2021-05-17** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-13** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2021-05-12** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 1 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-11** Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-10** Reported favorably.
- **2021-04-26** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted; ordered engrossed and recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2021-04-21** Reported with amendments.
- **2021-04-12** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-22** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `filing, referral-committee`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ceef5fe2-1ce9-4ebb-9640-d8985459aa24`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).