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type: "Bill"
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title: "SCHOOLS: Requires public schools to provide at least one recess period per school day in schools with any grade kindergarten through fifth grade"
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description: "SCHOOLS: Requires public schools to provide at least one recess period per school day in schools with any grade kindergarten through fifth grade"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
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legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
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session: "2023"
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identifier: "HB 121"
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citation: "Louisiana HB 121 (2023)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Beryl Amedee"]
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version_count: 7
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action_count: 22
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2023-03-16"
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last_action: "2023-06-08"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a9dc777f-eaf7-4c8c-b28a-b567f595c6c3"
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source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=243964"
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source_hash: "892bff1ae1e828689eeb0bab2bfc54581ce4243bb51a4ae17cb49cc6b81702b8"
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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 121 (2023) — SCHOOLS: Requires public schools to provide at least one recess period per school day in schools with any grade kindergarten through fifth grade
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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. **HB121 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1303569)
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2. **HB121 Act 219** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332280)
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3. **HB121 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320873)
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4. **House Committee Amendment, #2695, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320847)
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5. **House Floor Amendment, #3213, Willard, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323815)
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6. **House Floor Amendment, #3227, Willard, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323903)
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7. **HB121 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329400)
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## Votes
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- FINAL PASSAGE (#688) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
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- FINAL PASSAGE (#538) — **66–28** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Beryl Amedee — primary (person)
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- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
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- Barrow Peacock — cosponsor (person)
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- Brett Geymann — cosponsor (person)
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- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
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- Danny McCormick — cosponsor (person)
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- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
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- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
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- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
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- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
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- Phillip Tarver — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2023-06-08** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
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- **2023-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 219. `became-law, executive-signature`
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- **2023-06-07** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
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- **2023-06-06** Signed by the President of the Senate.
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- **2023-06-05** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
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- **2023-06-04** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
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- **2023-06-04** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
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- **2023-06-03** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
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- **2023-06-02** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
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- **2023-06-01** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-05-23** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2023-05-22** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
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- **2023-05-18** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 66, nays 28. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
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- **2023-05-18** Called from the calendar.
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- **2023-05-18** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
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- **2023-05-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/18/2023.
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- **2023-05-11** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
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- **2023-05-10** Reported with amendments (9-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
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- **2023-03-17** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/17/2023.
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- **2023-03-16** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
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- **2023-03-16** Prefiled. `filing`
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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/a9dc777f-eaf7-4c8c-b28a-b567f595c6c3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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