---
type: "Bill"
title: "COLLEGES/UNIVERSITIES: Provides relative to the M.J. Foster Promise Award Program. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
description: "COLLEGES/UNIVERSITIES: Provides relative to the M.J. Foster Promise Award Program. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 272"
citation: "Louisiana SB 272 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rick Edmonds"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-05-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/113171b7-369e-44d2-8f61-1ff9f66d1590"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246529"
source_hash: "6b3f1f4d67267d62c41122ac3179068638c86c6de025dc41982b7952f454f9de"
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 272 (2024) — COLLEGES/UNIVERSITIES: Provides relative to the M.J. Foster Promise Award Program. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB272 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352540)
2. **SB272 Act 102** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378096)
3. **SB272 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362226)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1525, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361793)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1595, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362146)
6. **SB272 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374580)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#1060) — **97–1** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#285) — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Rick Edmonds — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-21** Effective date 5/21/2024.
- **2024-05-21** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 102. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-16** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-15** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-05-15** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-14** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-14** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 1. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **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 (10-0). 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 39 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/113171b7-369e-44d2-8f61-1ff9f66d1590`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).