---
type: "Bill"
title: "TOPS: Provides relative to qualifications for Taylor Opportunity Program for Students scholarships"
description: "TOPS: Provides relative to qualifications for Taylor Opportunity Program for Students scholarships"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 870"
citation: "Louisiana HB 870 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ray Garofalo"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 27
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-05-13"
last_action: "2020-06-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/973de2da-d06d-4ec1-b71d-74cf88eb2c1e"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238973"
source_hash: "d81eb26df07adccb82ef9bbf7512d51976e87f7facb9dde0cb604ebbcba59f96"
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 870 (2020) — TOPS: Provides relative to qualifications for Taylor Opportunity Program for Students scholarships

## Version chain

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

1. **HB870 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170251)
2. **HB870 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182599)
3. **HB870 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170282)
4. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2194, Jackson, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176983)
5. **HB870 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1178969)

## Votes

- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#736) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#275) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#763) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#545) — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ray Garofalo — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-13** Effective date: 08/01/2020.
- **2020-06-13** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 346. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-06-01** Notice the House discharged the Conference Committee and concurred in the Senate amendments.
- **2020-06-01** Read by title, roll called, yeas 94, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2020-06-01** Rules suspended.
- **2020-06-01** Reconsidered.
- **2020-06-01** Discharged from Conference Committee.
- **2020-06-01** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2020-06-01** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2020-06-01** Senate conference committee members appointed: Fields, Jackson, and Mizell.
- **2020-05-31** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
- **2020-05-31** House conferees appointed: Garofalo, Wright, and Edmonds.
- **2020-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 97, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
- **2020-05-29** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/20.
- **2020-05-29** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2020-05-29** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 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 98, nays 0. 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, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-13** Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 786 reported by the Committee on Education (13-0).

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/973de2da-d06d-4ec1-b71d-74cf88eb2c1e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).