republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2021/sb-222.md

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Bill	SCHOOLS: Provides relative to early literacy. (8/1/21) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)	SCHOOLS: Provides relative to early literacy. (8/1/21) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2021	SB 222	Louisiana SB 222 (2021)	bill		enacted	Sharon Hewitt	7	22	3	2021-04-02	2021-06-21	openstates	ocd-bill/bbb26941-5bcf-40c9-a66b-c20aefa030f4	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240620	e450f5a11e6e2383e5e2a59713e21db749fd2058c7a920150576a7ef6397b5d5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana SB 222 (2021) — SCHOOLS: Provides relative to early literacy. (8/1/21) (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. SB222 Original (filed) — source
2. SB222 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. SB222 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate Committee Amendment, #1214, EDUC, Draft (committee substitute) — source
5. Senate Committee Amendment, #1317, EDUC, Draft (committee substitute) — source
6. Senate Committee Amendment, #1356, EDUC, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. SB222 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#892) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• CO-AUTHORS (#284) — 24–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#283) — 29–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Sharon Hewitt — primary (person)
• Barrow Peacock — cosponsor (person)
• Barry Milligan — cosponsor (person)
• Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
• Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
• Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)
• Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
• Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
• J. Rogers Pope — cosponsor (person)
• Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
• Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
• Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
• Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
• Louie Bernard — cosponsor (person)
• Mack Bodi White, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)
• R. L. Bret Allain, II — cosponsor (person)
• Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
• Robert Mills — cosponsor (person)
• Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-06-21 Effective date 8/1/2021.
• 2021-06-21 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 438. executive-signature
• 2021-06-06 Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/4/2021. executive-receipt
• 2021-06-03 Signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2021-06-02 Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2021-06-01 Received from the House without amendments.
• 2021-06-01 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2021-06-01 Called from the calendar.
• 2021-05-27 Scheduled for floor debate on 06/01/2021.
• 2021-05-27 Notice given.
• 2021-05-27 Read by title, returned to the calendar.
• 2021-05-26 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/27/2021.
• 2021-05-18 Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2021-05-17 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
• 2021-05-13 Reported favorably (9-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2021-05-10 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. referral-committee
• 2021-05-06 Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
• 2021-05-06 Read by title, passed by a vote of 29 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2021-05-04 Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2021-05-03 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
• 2021-04-02 Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. filing, referral-committee

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bbb26941-5bcf-40c9-a66b-c20aefa030f4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).