THE POLICY LANDSCAPE
Rights, restrictions & the places between.
LA HB685 (2025)
Provides relative to diversity, equity, and inclusion in state agencies (RE SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)
Anti-LGBTQ+
- Jurisdiction
- Louisiana
- Session
- 2025 Regular Session
- Stage reported
- Passed one chamber Session adjourned
- First recorded action
- Latest action
- : Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- Record retrieved
Bill types
As labelled in the project's tracker.
DEI Ban
Links
- As introduced (PDF, hosted here)
- LegiScan record(opens another site)
- Official legislature page(opens another site)
- Introduced text at legis.la.gov(opens another site)
- Engrossed text at legis.la.gov(opens another site)
- Engrossed text at legis.la.gov(opens another site)
- Bill page on this site
Recorded actions
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| House | Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 421 reported by the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs (10-6). | |
| House | Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. | |
| House | Scheduled for floor debate on 05/14/2025. | |
| House | Read by title, returned to the calendar. | |
| House | Notice given. | |
| House | Scheduled for floor debate on 05/19/2025. | |
| House | Called from the calendar. | |
| House | Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 57, nays 32. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. | |
| Senate | Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. | |
| Senate | Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call. |
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