---
type: "Bill"
title: "EDUCATION DEPARTMENT: Provides relative to legislative approval of Education Excellence Fund expenditure plans. (gov sig)"
description: "EDUCATION DEPARTMENT: Provides relative to legislative approval of Education Excellence Fund expenditure plans. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 84"
citation: "Louisiana SB 84 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cleo Fields"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-21"
last_action: "2020-06-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4a9db91d-89ad-4428-9002-0f4f611caafc"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237610"
source_hash: "9bb4c2f8bac58831386884fccf19601c817ed134dbcc104ab0a9e4a07578bbb9"
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 84 (2020) — EDUCATION DEPARTMENT: Provides relative to legislative approval of Education Excellence Fund expenditure plans. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB84 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1157402)
2. **SB84 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1180287)
3. **SB84 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1165347)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #653, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1164995)
5. **SB84 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176606)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#488) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#89) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cleo Fields — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-05** Effective date 6/5/2020.
- **2020-06-05** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 58. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-05-31** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-28** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-27** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2020-05-27** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/27/20.
- **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`
- **2020-05-11** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 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`
- **2020-02-21** 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/4a9db91d-89ad-4428-9002-0f4f611caafc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).