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+type: "Bill"
+title: "SCHOOLS/CHOICE: Provides relative to program administration and school eligibility for Student Scholarships for Educational Excellence Program (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)"
+description: "SCHOOLS/CHOICE: Provides relative to program administration and school eligibility for Student Scholarships for Educational Excellence Program (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 280"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 280 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Rick Edmonds"]
+version_count: 9
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-03-30"
+last_action: "2021-06-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/09e11d2f-f0ff-419c-80f8-386d924bb2db"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240156"
+source_hash: "20eb47c47a310762154f207bf66cb0b7138333eda09318d6f87216c5c04c2b69"
+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 280 (2021) — SCHOOLS/CHOICE: Provides relative to program administration and school eligibility for Student Scholarships for Educational Excellence Program (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB280 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1208932)
+2. **HB280 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235207)
+3. **HB280 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220637)
+4. **HB280 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1223568)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #1991, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219446)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #2075, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219910)
+7. **House Committee Amendment, #2211, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220547)
+8. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1593, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220971)
+9. **HB280 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1229607)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#534) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#371) — **103–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Rick Edmonds — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
+- **2021-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 196. `executive-signature`
+- **2021-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2021-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2021-05-26** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2021-05-26** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2021-05-25** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2021-05-24** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2021-05-20** Reported favorably.
+- **2021-05-13** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-05-12** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2021-05-11** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 103, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2021-05-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/11/2021.
+- **2021-05-05** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2021-05-04** Reported with amendments (10-0).
+- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021.
+- **2021-03-30** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-30** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/09e11d2f-f0ff-419c-80f8-386d924bb2db`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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