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---
type: "Bill"
title: "EARLY CHILDHOOD: Provides relative to the Early Childhood Care and Education Commission"
description: "EARLY CHILDHOOD: Provides relative to the Early Childhood Care and Education Commission"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 338"
citation: "Louisiana HB 338 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara Reich Freiberg"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-29"
last_action: "2023-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/58ff3e2c-4b1a-4830-9f25-3f899ae4d606"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244236"
source_hash: "d4c74a258b6401eeb574f0fba9050f60317cc9882fccc6d9d6718c8a00e26507"
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 HB 338 (2023) — EARLY CHILDHOOD: Provides relative to the Early Childhood Care and Education Commission
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **HB338 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1307854)
2. **HB338 Act 83** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331600)
3. **HB338 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314272)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1451, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313643)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1522, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314141)
6. **HB338 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325796)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#429) — **380** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#125) — **963** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Barbara Reich Freiberg — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Clay Schexnayder — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Paula Davis — cosponsor (person)
- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Hilferty — cosponsor (person)
- Tanner Magee — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-06-06** Effective date: See Act.
- **2023-06-06** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 83. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-05-31** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-30** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-05-25** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-24** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-24** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-17** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-16** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-15** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-27** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-26** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-04-26** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 3. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-04-24** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/26/2023.
- **2023-04-24** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-20** Reported with amendments (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/58ff3e2c-4b1a-4830-9f25-3f899ae4d606`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).