---
type: "Bill"
title: "STUDENT/ASSESSMENT: Provides relative to the use of student assessment results for the 2020-2021 school year with respect to school and district accountability, teacher evaluation, and student promotion (Item #42)"
description: "STUDENT/ASSESSMENT: Provides relative to the use of student assessment results for the 2020-2021 school year with respect to school and district accountability, teacher evaluation, and student promotion (Item #42)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020s2"
identifier: "HB 80"
citation: "Louisiana HB 80 (2020s2)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles Owen"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 18
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-10-05"
last_action: "2020-11-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1e67b0ad-4722-4918-8063-d4ecc9e0e112"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239586"
source_hash: "6c71879116037d04788fbc99f0255fd61bcad1f014dd3efebb60fc1a900afb04"
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 80 (2020s2) — STUDENT/ASSESSMENT: Provides relative to the use of student assessment results for the 2020-2021 school year with respect to school and district accountability, teacher evaluation, and student promotion (Item #42)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB80 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1190537)
2. **HB80 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1195050)
3. **HB80 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1191641)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #378, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1191275)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #401, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1191637)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #714, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1193338)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #763, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1193682)
8. **HB80 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1194464)

## Votes

- CO-AUTHORS (#228) — **19–0** (fail) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#227) — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#267) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#106) — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Charles Owen — primary (person)
- Barry Milligan — cosponsor (person)
- Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
- Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)
- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
- Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
- J. Rogers Pope — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Louie Bernard — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person)
- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-11-12** Effective date: 12/22/2020.
- **2020-11-12** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 47. `executive-signature`
- **2020-10-23** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-10-23** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-10-23** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-10-23** Read by title, roll called, yeas 93, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2020-10-23** Rules suspended.
- **2020-10-23** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2020-10-23** The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-10-21** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-10-21** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-10-14** 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, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, 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, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-10-12** Rules suspended.
- **2020-10-12** Reported with amendments (11-0).
- **2020-10-05** 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/1e67b0ad-4722-4918-8063-d4ecc9e0e112`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).