---
type: "Bill"
title: "COLLEGES/UNIVERSITIES: Provides relative to the prevention of power-based violence in public postsecondary education institutions. (gov sig)"
description: "COLLEGES/UNIVERSITIES: Provides relative to the prevention of power-based violence in public postsecondary education institutions. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 343"
citation: "Louisiana SB 343 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Regina Ashford Barrow"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f0ebfba9-b73d-4ead-a7c7-5544e08b6276"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246624"
source_hash: "29a58733aebbbfdf06779bc06396e85a85312fd58bd2cc8381355ca092fecbc8"
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 343 (2024) — COLLEGES/UNIVERSITIES: Provides relative to the prevention of power-based violence in public postsecondary education institutions. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB343 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352764)
2. **SB343 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381960)
3. **SB343 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366774)
4. **SB343 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1368444)
5. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #2350, Barrow, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1368143)
6. **SB343 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377164)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#1201) — **65–23** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#370) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Regina Ashford Barrow — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-03** Effective date 6/3/2024.
- **2024-06-03** Becomes Act No. 482 without the Governor's signature. `became-law`
- **2024-05-28** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/23/2024. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-23** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-05-22** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-21** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-21** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 65, nays 23. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/2024.
- **2024-05-09** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-08** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-05-07** Reported favorably (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-25** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-24** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-04-23** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-22** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-04-17** Reported favorably. `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/f0ebfba9-b73d-4ead-a7c7-5544e08b6276`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).