---
type: "Bill"
title: "STUDENTS: Exempts students with dyslexia from certain literacy examinations and provides for alternative progress monitoring tests. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)"
description: "STUDENTS: Exempts students with dyslexia from certain literacy examinations and provides for alternative progress monitoring tests. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 72"
citation: "Louisiana SB 72 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Thomas Pressly"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-02-28"
last_action: "2024-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ecb17c44-c434-4bd2-802f-2f1d3f05854a"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245901"
source_hash: "d6de6afd51ff108fec2b08151f397e2cfd5d1c4de94ae09c03722a44f5528a83"
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 72 (2024) — STUDENTS: Exempts students with dyslexia from certain literacy examinations and provides for alternative progress monitoring tests. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB72 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1348523)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #4538, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1373780)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #4615, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374334)
4. **SB72 Act 499** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382203)
5. **SB72 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1359137)
6. **SB72 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369222)
7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1748, Pressly, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363529)
8. **SB72 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379142)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#1289) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#1199) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#412) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Thomas Pressly — primary (person)
- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
- Laurie Schlegel — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
- Rashid Young — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (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. 499. `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.
- **2024-05-29** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-28** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2024-05-22** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/2024.
- **2024-05-20** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-15** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-05-14** Reported with amendments (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-29** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-25** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-04-24** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-24** Called from the Calendar.
- **2024-04-08** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2024-04-02** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-03-27** Rules suspended. 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`
- **2024-02-28** 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/ecb17c44-c434-4bd2-802f-2f1d3f05854a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).