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+type: "Bill"
+title: "SCHOOLS: Provides relative to school facilities preservation and systemwide needs programs in certain school districts (EN SEE FISC NOTE See Note)"
+description: "SCHOOLS: Provides relative to school facilities preservation and systemwide needs programs in certain school districts (EN SEE FISC NOTE See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 78"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 78 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jason Hughes"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-03-09"
+last_action: "2023-06-06"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/96bedd35-af47-46da-9f38-00447cc292b1"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=243917"
+source_hash: "e221a60aca860dbf25a69c42714343fa063a3fb6fea9afaae37f052c16370179"
+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 78 (2023) — SCHOOLS: Provides relative to school facilities preservation and systemwide needs programs in certain school districts (EN SEE FISC NOTE See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB78 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1302412)
+2. **HB78 Act 55** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331220)
+3. **HB78 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316491)
+4. **HB78 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1319926)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #1580, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314503)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #1913, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316388)
+7. **House Floor Amendment, #2006, Hughes, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317216)
+8. **HB78 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326985)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#244) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#478) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jason Hughes — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-06-06** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
+- **2023-06-06** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 55. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2023-05-31** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-05-30** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2023-05-30** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2023-05-30** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2023-05-26** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2023-05-23** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-22** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2023-05-18** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-05-10** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2023-05-09** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2023-05-08** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2023-05-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/08/2023.
+- **2023-04-27** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2023-04-26** Reported with amendments (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-10** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/10/2023.
+- **2023-03-09** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-09** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/96bedd35-af47-46da-9f38-00447cc292b1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+