---
type: "Bill"
title: "EDUCATION ACCOUNTABILITY: Provides relative to the development and presentation of school academic improvement plans"
description: "EDUCATION ACCOUNTABILITY: Provides relative to the development and presentation of school academic improvement plans"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 482"
citation: "Louisiana HB 482 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gary Carter"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-29"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9f7aab44-1706-411d-95c9-5df5aa1f9752"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236309"
source_hash: "d643533c7354792a384fe454fef43e4c41d37fb1c121caab8a9c55763c2a9461"
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 482 (2019) — EDUCATION ACCOUNTABILITY: Provides relative to the development and presentation of school academic improvement plans

## Version chain

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

1. **HB482 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1121898)
2. **HB482 Act 236** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144099)
3. **HB482 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130093)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1912, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129851)
5. **HB482 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1142139)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#908) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#303) — **88–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gary Carter — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-11** Effective date: See Act.
- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 236. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-04** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-04** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-06-03** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-06-03** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2019-06-01** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2019-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-27** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-15** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-14** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 88, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/14/19.
- **2019-05-02** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-01** Reported with amendments (10-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9f7aab44-1706-411d-95c9-5df5aa1f9752`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).