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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TOPS: Provides relative to qualifications for Taylor Opportunity Program for Students scholarships (Item #43)"
+description: "TOPS: Provides relative to qualifications for Taylor Opportunity Program for Students scholarships (Item #43)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2020s2"
+identifier: "HB 40"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 40 (2020s2)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ray Garofalo"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-09-28"
+last_action: "2020-10-28"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/186f97c6-5132-4bf2-8b54-b43504c771f8"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239486"
+source_hash: "87298f755d5cf0148d6648a8617461c76c6e4344b232706043879d7673946215"
+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 40 (2020s2) — TOPS: Provides relative to qualifications for Taylor Opportunity Program for Students scholarships (Item #43)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB40 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1189337)
+2. **HB40 Act 17** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1194933)
+3. **HB40 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1191666)
+4. **HB40 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1192331)
+5. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #414, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1191695)
+6. **HB40 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1193913)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#98) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#161) — **32–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ray Garofalo — primary (person)
+- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-10-28** Effective date: 10/28/2020.
+- **2020-10-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 17. `executive-signature`
+- **2020-10-23** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-10-22** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2020-10-22** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2020-10-21** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2020-10-21** Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2020-10-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2020-10-20** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2020-10-13** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-10-13** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2020-10-12** Scheduled for floor debate on 10/13/20.
+- **2020-10-12** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2020-10-12** Rules suspended.
+- **2020-10-12** Reported favorably (11-0).
+- **2020-09-28** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/186f97c6-5132-4bf2-8b54-b43504c771f8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+