---
type: "Bill"
title: "TOPS: Provides relative to qualifications for Taylor Opportunity Program for Students scholarships (Item #43)"
description: "TOPS: Provides relative to qualifications for Taylor Opportunity Program for Students scholarships (Item #43)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020s2"
identifier: "HB 40"
citation: "Louisiana HB 40 (2020s2)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ray Garofalo"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-09-28"
last_action: "2020-10-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/186f97c6-5132-4bf2-8b54-b43504c771f8"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239486"
source_hash: "87298f755d5cf0148d6648a8617461c76c6e4344b232706043879d7673946215"
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 40 (2020s2) — TOPS: Provides relative to qualifications for Taylor Opportunity Program for Students scholarships (Item #43)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB40 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1189337)
2. **HB40 Act 17** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1194933)
3. **HB40 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1191666)
4. **HB40 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1192331)
5. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #414, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1191695)
6. **HB40 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1193913)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#98) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#161) — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ray Garofalo — primary (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-10-28** Effective date: 10/28/2020.
- **2020-10-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 17. `executive-signature`
- **2020-10-23** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-10-22** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-10-22** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-10-21** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2020-10-21** Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-10-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-10-20** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-10-13** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2020-10-13** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-10-12** Scheduled for floor debate on 10/13/20.
- **2020-10-12** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-10-12** Rules suspended.
- **2020-10-12** Reported favorably (11-0).
- **2020-09-28** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/186f97c6-5132-4bf2-8b54-b43504c771f8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).