---
type: "Bill"
title: "CURRICULA: Provides relative to organ donation instruction in public high schools"
description: "CURRICULA: Provides relative to organ donation instruction in public high schools"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 289"
citation: "Louisiana HB 289 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barry Ivey"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-28"
last_action: "2023-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2546871b-5533-4001-9e83-4507545ee3f6"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244169"
source_hash: "dcfd0789dcf49adb532a22dfaba27c87929393b4e59aadc03cf56914c54bc2aa"
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 289 (2023) — CURRICULA: Provides relative to organ donation instruction in public high schools

## Version chain

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

1. **HB289 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1306917)
2. **HB289 Act 180** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332246)
3. **HB289 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318162)
4. **HB289 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323488)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2143, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317782)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2205, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318065)
7. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1249, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318433)
8. **HB289 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329190)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#503) — **101–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#613) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Barry Ivey — primary (person)
- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
- Clay Schexnayder — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Foy Gadberry — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
- Paula Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
- Polly Thomas — cosponsor (person)
- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Scott McKnight — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-08** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 180. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-06** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-05** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-04** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-04** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-02** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-31** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-30** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-29** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-18** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-17** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-17** Called from the calendar.
- **2023-05-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/17/2023.
- **2023-05-11** Notice given.
- **2023-05-11** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2023-05-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/11/2023.
- **2023-05-03** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-02** Reported with amendments (7-1-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2546871b-5533-4001-9e83-4507545ee3f6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).