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+type: "Bill"
+title: "STUDENTS: Provides relative to students impacted due to the COVID-19 public health emergency. (gov sig)"
+description: "STUDENTS: Provides relative to students impacted due to the COVID-19 public health emergency. (gov sig)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "SB 481"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 481 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Cleo Fields"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2020-03-31"
+last_action: "2020-06-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c2fd60ac-2412-4a40-86f1-59aa2a6802fa"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238809"
+source_hash: "9fa9ccd269b58ac77a2414fa7a00a9b4e30e3e33a980663e7477726e3c93b9af"
+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 SB 481 (2020) — STUDENTS: Provides relative to students impacted due to the COVID-19 public health emergency. (gov sig)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB481 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1168179)
+2. **House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1754, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1174360)
+3. **SB481 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182302)
+4. **SB481 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170271)
+5. **SB481 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1171275)
+6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1084, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169919)
+7. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1181, Mills, Fred, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170709)
+8. **SB481 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1178043)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#124) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- CONCUR (#623) — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+- CO-AUTHORS (#125) — **28–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#512) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Cleo Fields — primary (person)
+- Barry Milligan — cosponsor (person)
+- Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
+- Eddie Lambert — cosponsor (person)
+- Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)
+- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
+- Gregory Tarver — cosponsor (person)
+- Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Rogers Pope — cosponsor (person)
+- Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
+- Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
+- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- Mack Bodi White, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick Connick — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)
+- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
+- Rick Ward, III — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert Mills — cosponsor (person)
+- Ronnie Johns — cosponsor (person)
+- Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)
+- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Troy Carter — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-06-11** Effective date 6/11/2020.
+- **2020-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 245. `executive-signature`
+- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/2/2020. `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2020-05-31** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2020-05-29** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays.
+- **2020-05-28** Received from the House with amendments.
+- **2020-05-28** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2020-05-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/28/20.
+- **2020-05-21** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2020-05-20** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2020-05-20** Reported favorably (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2020-05-13** Received in the House from the Senate, rules suspended, read by title, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-05-11** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2020-05-07** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Read by title; Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2020-05-04** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-03-31** Introduced in the Senate. Read by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c2fd60ac-2412-4a40-86f1-59aa2a6802fa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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