---
type: "Bill"
title: "POSTSECONDARY ED: Provides relative to the M.J. Foster Promise Award program. (gov sig)"
description: "POSTSECONDARY ED: Provides relative to the M.J. Foster Promise Award program. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 204"
citation: "Louisiana SB 204 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sharon Hewitt"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-31"
last_action: "2023-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ceb4571c-4443-4df9-a7df-a10c9f3e6379"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244628"
source_hash: "1a846733a1be6642343bd4eb47c4fcce1af33ebe116959ece201f9a621015d5c"
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 SB 204 (2023) — POSTSECONDARY ED: Provides relative to the M.J. Foster Promise Award program. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB204 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1310020)
2. **House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2133, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325295)
3. **SB204 Act 287** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332406)
4. **SB204 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1319279)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1167, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317820)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1373, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1319165)
7. **SB204 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1330983)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#946) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#917) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#305) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Sharon Hewitt — primary (person)
- Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)
- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Mills — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-12** Effective date 6/12/2023.
- **2023-06-12** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 287. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-08** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-07** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2023-06-07** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-06** Rules suspended. Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2023-06-05** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-05** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-06-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/05/2023.
- **2023-05-25** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-24** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2023-05-23** Reported favorably (9-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-16** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-15** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2023-05-15** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-09** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2023-05-08** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-31** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ceb4571c-4443-4df9-a7df-a10c9f3e6379`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).