---
type: "Bill"
title: "SCHOOLS: Establishes the School Employee Bill of Rights. (gov sig)"
description: "SCHOOLS: Establishes the School Employee Bill of Rights. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 178"
citation: "Louisiana SB 178 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Samuel Jenkins"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-04-04"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3911dbf1-b121-4cba-ab4c-fcb9c2e532fb"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248660"
source_hash: "a215fab61044e6e86978359726b2063ccc17e8489a3ff8999ea63a5baf7704ce"
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 178 (2025) — SCHOOLS: Establishes the School Employee Bill of Rights. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB178 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1404471)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3666, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418913)
3. **SB178 Act 439** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1426044)
4. **SB178 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415070)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1698, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414500)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1782, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414976)
7. **SB178 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1423759)

## Votes

- CONCUR (#859) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#905) — **90–7** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#285) — **36–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Samuel Jenkins — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
- Mandie Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
- Neil Riser — cosponsor (person)
- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
- Rashid Young — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Shaun Mena — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-20** Effective date 6/20/2025.
- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 439. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-11** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-10** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2025-06-10** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-09** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2025-06-04** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-04** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 7. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-06-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/04/2025.
- **2025-06-02** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-29** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2025-05-28** Reported with amendments (8-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-21** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-20** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2025-05-20** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 1 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-19** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2025-05-14** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** 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/3911dbf1-b121-4cba-ab4c-fcb9c2e532fb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).