---
type: "Bill"
title: "STUDENTS: Provides for the administration of medication to students by certain practitioners. (gov sig)"
description: "STUDENTS: Provides for the administration of medication to students by certain practitioners. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 56"
citation: "Louisiana SB 56 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["William \"Bill\" Wheat , Jr."]
version_count: 7
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-02-26"
last_action: "2024-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/594098df-21ec-46ab-919d-379c4f991e1f"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245829"
source_hash: "b3d4cd67b61c0d680d97841311c9203260177126c78ea9c4c8c56501b92e1502"
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 56 (2024) — STUDENTS: Provides for the administration of medication to students by certain practitioners. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB56 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1347398)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3494, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367682)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3697, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1368933)
4. **House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2595, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369361)
5. **SB56 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379385)
6. **SB56 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354335)
7. **SB56 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375356)

## Votes

- CONCUR (#768) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#81) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1043) — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- William "Bill" Wheat , Jr. — primary (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-23** Effective date 5/23/2024.
- **2024-05-23** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 161. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-16** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-05-16** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-15** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2024-05-14** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-14** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/14/2024.
- **2024-04-29** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-25** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-04-24** Reported with amendments (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. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-03-18** 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`
- **2024-02-26** 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/594098df-21ec-46ab-919d-379c4f991e1f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).