---
type: "Bill"
title: "SCHOOLS: Requires each public school governing authority to use a uniform 10-point grading scale"
description: "SCHOOLS: Requires each public school governing authority to use a uniform 10-point grading scale"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 424"
citation: "Louisiana HB 424 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tammy Phelps"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-02-29"
last_action: "2024-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a9ef88bd-7c50-4a3a-bebc-cf1bd33cdb6d"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246114"
source_hash: "eefef359a6f03b189c4e03a4b4f0361765beb96c3c333c9b54e685dd88d2a180"
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 424 (2024) — SCHOOLS: Requires each public school governing authority to use a uniform 10-point grading scale

## Version chain

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

1. **HB424 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1350722)
2. **HB424 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381906)
3. **HB424 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370481)
4. **HB424 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378166)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#862) — **71–17** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1127) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1125) — **1–0** (fail) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1126) — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Tammy Phelps — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-03** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-03** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 428. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-28** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-24** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-24** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-22** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-22** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-21** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-20** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-16** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-07** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-06** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-05-06** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 71, nays 17. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-01** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/06/2024.
- **2024-05-01** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-30** Reported favorably (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-29** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a9ef88bd-7c50-4a3a-bebc-cf1bd33cdb6d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).