---
type: "Bill"
title: "SCHOOLS: Provides relative to parental consent for changes to an individualized education program. (gov sig)"
description: "SCHOOLS: Provides relative to parental consent for changes to an individualized education program. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 253"
citation: "Louisiana SB 253 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Franklin J. Foil"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e7d440e6-a2a6-45a7-9b7a-e72a3a4c2506"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246501"
source_hash: "99ce6220b06f91cc8f166ace56c431f3b49039a2d28ca145c9d921ad5d147f35"
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 253 (2024) — SCHOOLS: Provides relative to parental consent for changes to an individualized education program. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB253 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352477)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #4225, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372382)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #4973, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377009)
4. **House Floor Amendment, #5025, Schlegel, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377484)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #5057, Schlegel, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377763)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #5060, Schlegel, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377797)
7. **House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #4036, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377367)
8. **SB253 Act 512** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382217)
9. **SB253 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362097)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1494, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361443)
11. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1582, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362098)
12. **SB253 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380061)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#1421) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#283) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR (#1276) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Franklin J. Foil — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-10** Effective date 6/10/2024.
- **2024-06-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 512. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-31** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-30** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-05-30** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-29** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2024-05-28** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-28** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/28/2024.
- **2024-05-23** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-22** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-05-21** Reported with amendments (12-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-17** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-16** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-04-15** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-09** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-04-08** 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`
- **2024-03-01** 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/e7d440e6-a2a6-45a7-9b7a-e72a3a4c2506`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).