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+type: "Bill"
+title: "SECONDARY EDUCATION: Requires all public high school students to have access to available vocational and technical courses. (8/1/25) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
+description: "SECONDARY EDUCATION: Requires all public high school students to have access to available vocational and technical courses. (8/1/25) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 207"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 207 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Gary Carter"]
+version_count: 10
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-04-04"
+last_action: "2025-06-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/290dc796-18ff-4788-8905-fd33e4922726"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248716"
+source_hash: "8ed1ffe5bf15c796956649860e822411baac1d5f57c88449731a8a947eb7622f"
+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 207 (2025) — SECONDARY EDUCATION: Requires all public high school students to have access to available vocational and technical courses. (8/1/25) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB207 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1404645)
+2. **House Committee Amendment, #3637, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418841)
+3. **House Floor Amendment, #4035, Schlegel, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421296)
+4. **SB207 Act 449** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1426057)
+5. **SB207 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412918)
+6. **SB207 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416695)
+7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1423, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412739)
+8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1448, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412820)
+9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2020, Carter, Gary, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416586)
+10. **SB207 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424101)
+
+## Votes
+
+- CONCUR (#880) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#287) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#852) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Gary Carter — primary (person)
+- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
+- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
+- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
+- Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
+- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
+- Josh Carlson — cosponsor (person)
+- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
+- Katrina Jackson-Andrews — cosponsor (person)
+- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
+- Rashid Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
+- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
+- Terry Landry Jr — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-06-20** Effective date 8/1/2025.
+- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 449. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2025-06-11** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-11** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2025-06-11** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
+- **2025-06-10** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
+- **2025-06-08** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
+- **2025-06-03** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2025-06-03** Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
+- **2025-06-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/03/2025.
+- **2025-06-02** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-05-29** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2025-05-28** Reported with amendments (8-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-22** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-21** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2025-05-20** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2025-05-19** Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2025-05-19** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
+- **2025-05-12** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted; ordered engrossed and recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
+- **2025-05-08** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-04** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `filing, referral-committee`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/290dc796-18ff-4788-8905-fd33e4922726`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+