republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024/hb-71.md

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Bill	SCHOOLS: Requires the display of the Ten Commandments in schools	SCHOOLS: Requires the display of the Ten Commandments in schools	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024	HB 71	Louisiana HB 71 (2024)	bill		enacted	Dodie Horton	10	22	8	2024-02-08	2024-06-19	openstates	ocd-bill/93c740ae-6e5c-425c-98d2-a9f29f166a90	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245592	85462427bb9c274daea8ff9d369992c17dae397352028570fce14262d8ae358c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 71 (2024) — SCHOOLS: Requires the display of the Ten Commandments in schools

Version chain

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

1. HB71 Original (filed) — source
2. HB71 Act 676 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB71 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB71 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Floor Amendment, #2749, Landry, Mandie, Rejected (committee substitute) — source
6. House Floor Amendment, #2754, Hughes, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. House Floor Amendment, #2755, Hughes, Rejected (committee substitute) — source
8. House Floor Amendment, #2758, Walters, Rejected (committee substitute) — source
9. Senate Floor Amendment, #3759, Morris, Jay, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
10. HB71 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AMENDMENT # 2754 BY HUGHES, MOTION TO ADOPT (#379) — 70–29 (pass) · lower
• CO-AUTHORS (#906) — 17–0 (fail) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#905) — 30–8 (pass) · upper
• AMENDMENT # 2749 BY LANDRY, M., MOTION TO ADOPT (#377) — 29–69 (fail) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#381) — 82–19 (pass) · lower
• AMENDMENT # 2758 BY WALTERS, MOTION TO ADOPT (#380) — 30–69 (fail) · lower
• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1466) — 79–16 (pass) · lower
• AMENDMENT # 2755 BY HUGHES, MOTION TO ADOPT (#378) — 43–57 (fail) · lower

Sponsors

• Dodie Horton — primary (person)
• Adam Bass — cosponsor (person)
• Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
• Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
• Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
• Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
• Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
• Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
• Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
• Chad Boyer — cosponsor (person)
• Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
• Dennis Bamburg Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
• Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
• Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
• Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
• Jason Dewitt — cosponsor (person)
• Jay Galle — cosponsor (person)
• Jeffery "Jeff" Wiley — cosponsor (person)
• Jeremy Stine — cosponsor (person)
• Josh Carlson — cosponsor (person)
• Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
• Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
• Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
• Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
• Lauren Ventrella — cosponsor (person)
• Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person)
• Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Melerine — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
• Neil Riser — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
• Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
• R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
• Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
• Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
• Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
• Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)
• Shane Mack — cosponsor (person)
• Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
• Timothy P. Kerner — cosponsor (person)
• Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
• Valarie Hodges — cosponsor (person)
• William "Bill" Wheat , Jr. — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-06-19 Effective date: 06/19/2024.
• 2024-06-19 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 676. became-law, executive-signature
• 2024-06-04 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2024-05-29 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2024-05-30 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2024-05-28 Read by title, roll called, yeas 79, nays 16, Senate amendments concurred in.
• 2024-05-22 Scheduled for concurrence on 05/28/2024.
• 2024-05-20 Received from the Senate with amendments. receipt
• 2024-05-16 Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 30 yeas and 8 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2024-05-07 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2024-05-06 Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2024-05-01 Rules suspended. Reported favorably. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-16 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-04-15 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2024-04-10 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 82, nays 19. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2024-04-09 Scheduled for floor debate on 04/10/2024.
• 2024-04-08 Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2024-04-04 Reported favorably (10-3). committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-11 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. referral-committee
• 2024-02-09 First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/9/2024.
• 2024-02-08 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. referral-committee
• 2024-02-08 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/93c740ae-6e5c-425c-98d2-a9f29f166a90. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).