---
type: "Bill"
title: "EARLY CHILDHOOD: Authorizes the Monroe City School Board to levy an ad valorem tax for the purpose of funding early childhood care and education (EN INCREASE LF RV See Note)"
description: "EARLY CHILDHOOD: Authorizes the Monroe City School Board to levy an ad valorem tax for the purpose of funding early childhood care and education (EN INCREASE LF RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 56"
citation: "Louisiana HB 56 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pat Moore"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 24
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-01"
last_action: "2023-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/09cbfcbc-524e-411f-ba62-05d020634831"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=243886"
source_hash: "dc3dcb5201ea1102ca3bad19461832d2d94cf2734185ae108765a0103d060f60"
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 56 (2023) — EARLY CHILDHOOD: Authorizes the Monroe City School Board to levy an ad valorem tax for the purpose of funding early childhood care and education (EN INCREASE LF RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB56 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1301344)
2. **HB56 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332519)
3. **HB56 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318484)
4. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2836, Jackson, Katrina, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329752)
5. **HB56 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1330763)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#377) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#854) — **22–17** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1046) — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Pat Moore — primary (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. 361. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-07** 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 99, 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 22 yeas and 17 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-06-04** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-06-04** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-06-04** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
- **2023-06-02** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs.
- **2023-06-01** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-15** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/2023.
- **2023-05-04** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-03** Reported favorably (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/3/2023.
- **2023-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/09cbfcbc-524e-411f-ba62-05d020634831`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).