republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024/sb-294.md

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Bill	STUDENTS: Confirms the protections of free speech and First Amendment protected activities on college and university campuses. (gov sig)	STUDENTS: Confirms the protections of free speech and First Amendment protected activities on college and university campuses. (gov sig)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024	SB 294	Louisiana SB 294 (2024)	bill		enacted	Valarie Hodges	11	19	4	2024-03-01	2024-06-11	openstates	ocd-bill/4667fc6c-1258-44c2-bb44-e1203cbd610a	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246575	a4b766b2fd93356e1a6cb57d280ecb7cf63d70fcdce6eba2da067675988183c2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana SB 294 (2024) — STUDENTS: Confirms the protections of free speech and First Amendment protected activities on college and university campuses. (gov sig)

Version chain

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

1. SB294 Original (filed) — source
2. House Committee Amendment, #4587, EDUC, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
3. House Floor Amendment, #5052, Glorioso, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
4. SB294 Act 584 (committee substitute) — source
5. SB294 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
6. SB294 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Committee Amendment, #2681, EDUC, Draft (committee substitute) — source
8. Senate Committee Amendment, #2934, EDUC, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. Senate Floor Bureau Note, #3152, Hodges, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
10. Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2991, Miller, G., Adopted (committee substitute) — source
11. SB294 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• CO-AUTHORS (#538) — 8–0 (fail) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#537) — 28–11 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR (#1194) — 27–8 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#1303) — 73–23 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Valarie Hodges — primary (person)
• Adam Bass — cosponsor (person)
• Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
• Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
• Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
• Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
• Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
• Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
• Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
• Josh Carlson — cosponsor (person)
• Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
• Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Melerine — cosponsor (person)
• Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
• Thomas Pressly — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-06-11 Effective date 6/11/2024.
• 2024-06-11 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 584. became-law, executive-signature
• 2024-05-31 Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. executive-receipt
• 2024-05-30 Signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2024-05-29 Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. enrolled
• 2024-05-28 Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 27 yeas and 8 nays.
• 2024-05-22 Received from the House with amendments. receipt
• 2024-05-22 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 73, nays 23. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2024-05-20 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/2024.
• 2024-05-20 Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2024-05-15 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
• 2024-05-14 Reported with amendments (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-05-09 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. referral-committee
• 2024-05-08 Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
• 2024-05-07 Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 28 yeas and 11 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2024-05-06 Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2024-05-01 Rules suspended. Reported with amendments. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-11 Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Education. referral-committee
• 2024-03-01 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/4667fc6c-1258-44c2-bb44-e1203cbd610a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).