---
type: "Bill"
title: "SCHOOLS/FINANCE: Requires public school governing authorities to post certain fiscal information on their websites (EN +$232,710 GF EX See Note)"
description: "SCHOOLS/FINANCE: Requires public school governing authorities to post certain fiscal information on their websites (EN +$232,710 GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 462"
citation: "Louisiana HB 462 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rick Edmonds"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 30
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-31"
last_action: "2023-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dd781b71-c240-4937-a873-d9c3be146c78"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244418"
source_hash: "cde68e1d9e7ae2b659bf39c319fb7b0b89d9117f7485eb6202e01097d0c27d8d"
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 462 (2023) — SCHOOLS/FINANCE: Requires public school governing authorities to post certain fiscal information on their websites (EN +$232,710 GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB462 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1309096)
2. **HB462 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332529)
3. **HB462 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315642)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2217, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325824)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2220, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325831)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2226, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325873)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2229, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325878)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2357, FNCE, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326654)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2370, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326676)
10. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2675, Jackson, Katrina, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328564)
11. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2729, Cortez, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328872)
12. **HB462 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1330896)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#476) — **97–1** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1087) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#864) — **37–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Rick Edmonds — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
- Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Laurie Schlegel — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. St. Blanc , III — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-14** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-14** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 370. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-06** Read by title, roll called, yeas 97, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2023-06-05** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/06/2023.
- **2023-06-05** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-05** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-06-05** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2023-06-04** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2023-06-04** Rules suspended.
- **2023-05-31** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-30** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-29** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-26** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2023-05-26** Senate Committee amendments read and adopted.
- **2023-05-25** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-18** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-17** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-17** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/17/2023.
- **2023-05-09** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-08** Reported favorably (18-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-26** Read by title, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2023-04-25** Reported favorably (10-0). `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.
- **2023-03-31** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-31** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dd781b71-c240-4937-a873-d9c3be146c78`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).