---
type: "Bill"
title: "SCHOOLS/CHARTER: Removes requirements that charter schools meet a certain threshold with respect to the number of students with exceptionalities and economically disadvantaged students relative to its total student enrollment"
description: "SCHOOLS/CHARTER: Removes requirements that charter schools meet a certain threshold with respect to the number of students with exceptionalities and economically disadvantaged students relative to its total student enrollment"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 708"
citation: "Louisiana HB 708 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara Reich Freiberg"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 24
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-06-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/030f0036-e61e-4aa7-b7c8-cf0d9a93bbcd"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246559"
source_hash: "57ae649d95356d2c5c35071fbe94d1ce9fe7191afc4d4c4638aa4629675f992c"
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 708 (2024) — SCHOOLS/CHARTER: Removes requirements that charter schools meet a certain threshold with respect to the number of students with exceptionalities and economically disadvantaged students relative to its total student enrollment

## Version chain

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

1. **HB708 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352627)
2. **HB708 Act 659** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382684)
3. **HB708 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356769)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1300, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354933)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1587, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356757)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2799, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370453)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2929, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371181)
8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3691, Foil, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375212)
9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #4181, Lambert, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378179)
10. **Senate Floor Amendment, #4270, Foil, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378984)
11. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #3215, Talbot, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372630)
12. **HB708 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380167)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1582) — **89–6** (pass) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 4181 BY LAMBERT, HB 708 BY FREIBERG (#1250) — **22–15** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1251) — **30–7** (pass) · upper
- SUSPEND THE RULES (#148) — **39–44** (fail) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#149) — **66–33** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Barbara Reich Freiberg — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-18** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-18** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 659. `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 89, nays 6, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-05-28** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2024.
- **2024-05-28** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-28** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 30 yeas and 7 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-28** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2024-05-16** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2024-05-16** Rules suspended.
- **2024-05-07** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-06** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-01** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-02** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-03-27** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 66, nays 33. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-03-25** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/27/2024.
- **2024-03-25** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-03-21** Reported with amendments (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/030f0036-e61e-4aa7-b7c8-cf0d9a93bbcd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).