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+type: "Bill"
+title: "STUDENT/TUITION: Provides relative to the definition of institution of postsecondary education for purposes of the La. Student Tuition Assistance and Revenue Trust (START) Program (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
+description: "STUDENT/TUITION: Provides relative to the definition of institution of postsecondary education for purposes of the La. Student Tuition Assistance and Revenue Trust (START) Program (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 87"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 87 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Edward Ted James"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-02-20"
+last_action: "2018-05-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ebb29b16-30b7-4f44-99ae-44f5c7f8c85b"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233224"
+source_hash: "cbcbf040aab3c169a733344a16beb5391f1faed5756a6daf42ac1db953824008"
+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 87 (2018) — STUDENT/TUITION: Provides relative to the definition of institution of postsecondary education for purposes of the La. Student Tuition Assistance and Revenue Trust (START) Program (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB87 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1065087)
+2. **HB87 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1096897)
+3. **HB87 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1080203)
+4. **HB87 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1090684)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#568) — **30–0** (pass) · legislature
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#244) — **97–1** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Edward Ted James — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-05-10** Effective date: 08/01/2018.
+- **2018-05-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 53. `executive-signature`
+- **2018-05-01** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-04-30** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2018-04-27** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2018-04-26** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2018-04-26** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 30 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2018-04-25** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2018-04-24** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2018-04-23** Reported favorably.
+- **2018-04-05** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-04-04** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2018-04-04** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2018-03-29** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/04/18.
+- **2018-03-29** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2018-03-28** Reported favorably (14-0).
+- **2018-03-12** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-23** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/23/2018.
+- **2018-02-20** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-20** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ebb29b16-30b7-4f44-99ae-44f5c7f8c85b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+