---
type: "Bill"
title: "STATE EMPLOYEES: Provides for educational criteria for state employees"
description: "STATE EMPLOYEES: Provides for educational criteria for state employees"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 566"
citation: "Louisiana HB 566 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dixon McMakin"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-06-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d9024030-a087-48af-9fcf-65c37430d420"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246324"
source_hash: "95d1b92e71bf01349d5978bb8c69197c38cefbe0bfbb0880450bdd42f8cc9056"
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 566 (2024) — STATE EMPLOYEES: Provides for educational criteria for state employees

## Version chain

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

1. **HB566 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1351684)
2. **HB566 Act 655** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382679)
3. **HB566 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362581)
4. **HB566 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364585)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2218, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361384)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2399, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362511)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2703, McMakin, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364150)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3530, S&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374320)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3649, S&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374916)
10. **Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #3802, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375825)
11. **HB566 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379835)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#397) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1114) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1547) — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dixon McMakin — primary (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
- Chad Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Foy Gadberry — cosponsor (person)
- John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
- Les Farnum — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
- Paula Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-18** Effective date: 01/01/2025.
- **2024-06-18** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 655. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-30** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-29** Read by title, roll called, yeas 94, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-05-22** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2024.
- **2024-05-22** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-22** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-20** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-16** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-15** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-15** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-10** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-09** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/10/2024.
- **2024-04-08** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-04** Reported with amendments (15-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d9024030-a087-48af-9fcf-65c37430d420`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).