---
type: "Bill"
title: "STUDENTS: Provides relative to required instruction in personal financial management for public school students"
description: "STUDENTS: Provides relative to required instruction in personal financial management for public school students"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 239"
citation: "Louisiana HB 239 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jimmy Harris"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-27"
last_action: "2019-06-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fed651bf-0757-4780-8478-77e0c168b82d"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235967"
source_hash: "78c3d4d1e3d765808a0844918cefbf7d8bc24090ab358214a63ca520b238215a"
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 239 (2019) — STUDENTS: Provides relative to required instruction in personal financial management for public school students

## Version chain

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

1. **HB239 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1119469)
2. **HB239 Act 116** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143559)
3. **HB239 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1131945)
4. **HB239 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141622)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#843) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#437) — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jimmy Harris — primary (person)
- Mike Walsworth — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-05** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-06-05** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 116. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-02** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-06-02** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-06-02** Rules suspended.
- **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 97, 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, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-07** Reported favorably (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/fed651bf-0757-4780-8478-77e0c168b82d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).