---
type: "Bill"
title: "EDUCATION DEPARTMENT: Provides relative to environmental education and litter reduction section of the State Department of Education. (gov sig)"
description: "EDUCATION DEPARTMENT: Provides relative to environmental education and litter reduction section of the State Department of Education. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 312"
citation: "Louisiana SB 312 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael \"Big Mike\" Fesi"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-02-27"
last_action: "2020-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b0c3011d-13b9-44f5-a4ad-16b7c1ece25a"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238132"
source_hash: "62a41452529976adb09d62e265e653c881708f4c8881fecd5cbc8453b17ee549"
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 SB 312 (2020) — EDUCATION DEPARTMENT: Provides relative to environmental education and litter reduction section of the State Department of Education. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB312 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1162585)
2. **House Floor Amendment, #2591, Fontenot, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1175863)
3. **SB312 Act 317** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182513)
4. **SB312 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1165350)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #635, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1164715)
6. **SB312 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1178054)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#155) — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR (#612) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#501) — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-12** Effective date 6/12/2020.
- **2020-06-12** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 317. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/2/2020. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-01** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-31** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-29** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2020-05-28** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2020-05-28** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/28/20.
- **2020-05-21** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2020-05-20** Reported favorably (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-13** Received in the House from the Senate, rules suspended, read by title, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-13** Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-03-16** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-03-11** Reported with amendments.
- **2020-03-09** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-27** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b0c3011d-13b9-44f5-a4ad-16b7c1ece25a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).