---
type: "Bill"
title: "SCHOOLS/CHARTER: Provides relative to the sale or transfer of charter school facilities financed through tax exempt bonds"
description: "SCHOOLS/CHARTER: Provides relative to the sale or transfer of charter school facilities financed through tax exempt bonds"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 225"
citation: "Louisiana HB 225 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rick Edmonds"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 29
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-03-27"
last_action: "2019-06-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8e9c38ff-f5a6-4f58-87ce-7583e8c4bd95"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235953"
source_hash: "5082ac198a46ca649d22653022fde9a3f38c53305b24e97d3fcbf0252e05b438"
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 225 (2019) — SCHOOLS/CHARTER: Provides relative to the sale or transfer of charter school facilities financed through tax exempt bonds

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB225 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1119321)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #3735, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1142460)
3. **HB225 Act 431** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144980)
4. **HB225 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132283)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2289, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1131781)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2324, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132226)
7. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1688, Pierre, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132350)
8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3104, Appel, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1140567)
9. **HB225 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143576)

## Votes

- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1047) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#893) — **31–5** (pass) · upper
- AMENDMENT # 3104 BY APPEL, HB 225 BY EDMONDS (#892) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#435) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT (#1034) — **30–2** (pass) · upper
- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#957) — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rick Edmonds — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-06-22** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 431. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-10** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-06** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-06** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-06** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2019-06-06** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 30 yeas and 2 nays.
- **2019-06-06** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2019-06-06** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 99, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2019-06-06** Conference Committee report received.
- **2019-06-05** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2019-06-05** House conferees appointed: Edmonds, Nancy Landry, and Bacala.
- **2019-06-04** Senate conference committee members appointed: Appel, Morrish, and Boudreaux.
- **2019-06-04** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2019-06-04** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
- **2019-06-04** Read by title, roll called, yeas 98, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
- **2019-06-03** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/04/19.
- **2019-06-03** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2019-06-03** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 31 yeas and 5 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-31** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-21** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-21** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-09** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/19.
- **2019-05-08** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-07** Reported with amendments (13-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8e9c38ff-f5a6-4f58-87ce-7583e8c4bd95`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).