---
type: "Bill"
title: "SCHOOLS: Creates and provides for the St. George Community School Board and school system in East Baton Rouge Parish. (See Act)"
description: "SCHOOLS: Creates and provides for the St. George Community School Board and school system in East Baton Rouge Parish. (See Act)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 234"
citation: "Louisiana SB 234 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rick Edmonds"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 23
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-04-16"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/38cac60c-dbe4-40bd-9106-1139fcfa5ca8"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248835"
source_hash: "d646e6ee589824f459d39381a2d23d33c74d7f8334f1a914841f40f000b737e3"
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 234 (2025) — SCHOOLS: Creates and provides for the St. George Community School Board and school system in East Baton Rouge Parish. (See Act)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB234 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406026)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3580, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418491)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3582, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418500)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #3589, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418508)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #3596, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418899)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #4025, Freiberg, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421174)
7. **SB234 Act 455** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1426063)
8. **SB234 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407796)
9. **SB234 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413069)
10. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1237, Edmonds, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411060)
11. **SB234 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424437)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#202) — **26–4** (pass) · upper
- MODIFY TIME LIMITS (#907) — **36–51** (fail) · lower
- CONCUR (#907) — **27–9** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#910) — **60–26** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rick Edmonds — primary (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Emily Chenevert — cosponsor (person)
- Josh Carlson — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-20** Effective date: See Act.
- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 455. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-11** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-11** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2025-06-11** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-10** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 27 yeas and 9 nays.
- **2025-06-10** Called from the Calendar.
- **2025-06-09** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2025-06-04** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-04** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 60, nays 26. 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 (9-2). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-13** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-12** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2025-05-08** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 26 yeas and 4 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-08** Called from the Calendar.
- **2025-04-29** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2025-04-28** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2025-04-23** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-16** Rules suspended. Introduced in the Senate. Read by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/38cac60c-dbe4-40bd-9106-1139fcfa5ca8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).