---
type: "Bill"
title: "SCHOOLS/BOARDS: Provides with respect to purchasing by school boards"
description: "SCHOOLS/BOARDS: Provides with respect to purchasing by school boards"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 409"
citation: "Louisiana HB 409 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jeremy LaCombe"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-27"
last_action: "2020-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d678564f-5247-45c1-b8c8-fb234f0258f2"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238083"
source_hash: "4a3d5a455f32ede6f5726126d6caaad1ea57930c4c61d1f0304f665e2612eb3d"
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 409 (2020) — SCHOOLS/BOARDS: Provides with respect to purchasing by school boards

## Version chain

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

1. **HB409 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1162341)
2. **HB409 Act 265** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182342)
3. **HB409 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1171966)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1868, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1171750)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1890, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1171952)
6. **HB409 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177694)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#529) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#256) — **94–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jeremy LaCombe — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2020.
- **2020-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 265. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-29** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2020-05-29** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-28** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-21** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2020-05-21** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 2. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/20.
- **2020-05-15** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-13** Reported with amendments (14-0).
- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-27** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d678564f-5247-45c1-b8c8-fb234f0258f2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).