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+type: "Bill"
+title: "CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES: Provides relative to educational programs provided by correctional facilities. (gov sig) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
+description: "CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES: Provides relative to educational programs provided by correctional facilities. (gov sig) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "SB 251"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 251 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Regina Ashford Barrow"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2024-03-01"
+last_action: "2024-05-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cd7ea5d5-f56c-4051-b4ee-b6d842e98fa5"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246499"
+source_hash: "ba2e972f5fd6cb58ed30249c1a52580cfa5dc2c45af27c6bd417ea337136d1d7"
+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 251 (2024) — CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES: Provides relative to educational programs provided by correctional facilities. (gov sig) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB251 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352472)
+2. **House Floor Amendment, #3791, Bacala, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369487)
+3. **House Floor Amendment, #4145, LaFleur, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371518)
+4. **House Floor Amendment, #4641, Jordan, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374467)
+5. **SB251 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379404)
+6. **SB251 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358226)
+7. **SB251 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375332)
+
+## Votes
+
+- CONCUR (#778) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#1068) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
+- CO-AUTHORS (#185) — **11–0** (fail) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#184) — **32–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Regina Ashford Barrow — primary (person)
+- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
+- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
+- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
+- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
+- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
+- Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
+- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
+- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Gregory A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
+- Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeremy Stine — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
+- Katrina Jackson-Andrews — cosponsor (person)
+- Mandie Landry — cosponsor (person)
+- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
+- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
+- Shaun Mena — cosponsor (person)
+- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
+- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-05-23** Effective date 5/23/2024.
+- **2024-05-23** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 168. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2024-05-16** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-05-16** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2024-05-16** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
+- **2024-05-15** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
+- **2024-05-14** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
+- **2024-05-14** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2024-05-14** Called from the calendar.
+- **2024-05-14** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
+- **2024-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/14/2024.
+- **2024-04-29** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-04-25** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2024-04-24** Reported favorably (8-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-03** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-02** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2024-04-02** Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2024-03-27** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2024-03-26** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-11** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-01** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `filing, referral-committee`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cd7ea5d5-f56c-4051-b4ee-b6d842e98fa5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+