---
type: "Bill"
title: "SCHOOLS: Provides relative to the employment or acceptance of volunteer chaplains in public schools. (gov sig)"
description: "SCHOOLS: Provides relative to the employment or acceptance of volunteer chaplains in public schools. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 123"
citation: "Louisiana SB 123 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark Abraham"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-02-28"
last_action: "2024-05-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/44562c16-7742-4641-acb1-853f568bfd9c"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246014"
source_hash: "7847c17bb1da4d5227d3cca97b8a479ad131d6ebb6250aedf5d227f687becaca"
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 123 (2024) — SCHOOLS: Provides relative to the employment or acceptance of volunteer chaplains in public schools. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB123 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1349448)
2. **House Floor Amendment, #4650, Amedee, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374616)
3. **SB123 Act 293** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380763)
4. **SB123 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354400)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #768, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354329)
6. **SB123 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1376451)

## Votes

- CO-AUTHORS (#84) — **8–0** (fail) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#83) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR (#966) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1114) — **73–26** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mark Abraham — primary (person)
- Adam Bass — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Valarie Hodges — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-28** Effective date 5/28/2024.
- **2024-05-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 293. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-23** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-22** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-05-21** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-20** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2024-05-15** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-15** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 73, nays 26. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-15** Called from the calendar.
- **2024-05-14** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/2024.
- **2024-05-14** Notice given.
- **2024-05-14** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2024-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/14/2024.
- **2024-04-29** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-25** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-04-24** Reported favorably (9-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-25** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-21** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-03-20** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-03-19** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-03-18** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-28** 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/44562c16-7742-4641-acb1-853f568bfd9c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).