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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TELEVISION/EDUCATIONAL: Requires the Louisiana Educational Television Authority (LETA) to include funds for French language educational programming in its annual budget request to the division of administration"
+description: "TELEVISION/EDUCATIONAL: Requires the Louisiana Educational Television Authority (LETA) to include funds for French language educational programming in its annual budget request to the division of administration"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 547"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 547 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Beryl Amedee"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-03-01"
+last_action: "2024-06-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/16461df7-77b2-43b2-9933-d99b3cc3319e"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246305"
+source_hash: "5ae87e25489e78199132708e0c82f39d57c4c53bcd9df0c403fa08a989e69866"
+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 547 (2024) — TELEVISION/EDUCATIONAL: Requires the Louisiana Educational Television Authority (LETA) to include funds for French language educational programming in its annual budget request to the division of administration
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB547 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1351663)
+2. **HB547 Act 705** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382726)
+3. **HB547 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362404)
+4. **Senate Floor Amendment, #4138, Bass, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377938)
+5. **HB547 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378593)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#1171) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#396) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Beryl Amedee — primary (person)
+- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
+- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-06-19** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
+- **2024-06-19** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 705. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2024-05-31** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-05-28** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2024-05-28** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2024-05-28** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2024-05-23** 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`
+- **2024-05-21** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2024-05-20** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2024-05-16** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-15** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2024-04-10** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2024-04-09** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/10/2024.
+- **2024-04-08** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-04-04** Reported favorably (13-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-01** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/16461df7-77b2-43b2-9933-d99b3cc3319e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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