---
type: "Bill"
title: "SCHOOLS: To change the makeup of the board of the Jimmy D. Long School for Math, Science, and the Arts. (gov sig)"
description: "SCHOOLS: To change the makeup of the board of the Jimmy D. Long School for Math, Science, and the Arts. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 85"
citation: "Louisiana SB 85 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rick Edmonds"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-28"
last_action: "2024-05-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f2c8dee9-c26c-40f8-b7b4-3d86ba44f4b2"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245966"
source_hash: "61e7b114d390a72de7bbc9797c6f6a5a3c658f04f59731c8514b5392f62424ef"
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 85 (2024) — SCHOOLS: To change the makeup of the board of the Jimmy D. Long School for Math, Science, and the Arts. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB85 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1349220)
2. **SB85 Act 97** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378091)
3. **SB85 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354408)
4. **SB85 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356464)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #658, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1353869)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #775, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354385)
7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1051, Edmonds, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356360)
8. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1048, Miller, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356239)
9. **SB85 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374545)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#82) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1046) — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## 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. 97. `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 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, 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`
- **2024-03-25** 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** 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`
- **2024-03-19** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-03-18** 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`
- **2024-02-28** 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/f2c8dee9-c26c-40f8-b7b4-3d86ba44f4b2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).