---
type: "Bill"
title: "SCHOOLS/EMPLOYEES: Provides relative to sick leave banks for teachers, bus operators, and other school employees"
description: "SCHOOLS/EMPLOYEES: Provides relative to sick leave banks for teachers, bus operators, and other school employees"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 600"
citation: "Louisiana HB 600 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara Carpenter"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-05-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9dc329ef-4160-4538-8c65-fc55c59baa65"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246406"
source_hash: "e3bdaa62f5f34966bcca73af0676d8a4cd506cbca4760ef1d58ac9c0090165cb"
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 600 (2024) — SCHOOLS/EMPLOYEES: Provides relative to sick leave banks for teachers, bus operators, and other school employees

## Version chain

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

1. **HB600 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352162)
2. **HB600 Act 115** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378136)
3. **HB600 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358801)
4. **HB600 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374549)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#668) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#257) — **101–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Barbara Carpenter — primary (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Dewitt — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Tammy Phelps — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-21** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-05-21** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 115. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-16** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-15** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-14** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-13** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-07** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-06** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-01** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-09** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-08** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-04** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-03** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/04/2024.
- **2024-04-02** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-03-27** Reported favorably (13-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `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/9dc329ef-4160-4538-8c65-fc55c59baa65`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).