---
type: "Bill"
title: "TAX/TAXATION: Provides relative to the tax credit for donations to school tuition organizations. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE See Note)"
description: "TAX/TAXATION: Provides relative to the tax credit for donations to school tuition organizations. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 27"
citation: "Louisiana SB 27 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kirk Talbot"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 21
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-03-28"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/813b926f-4ab8-40f2-a661-7844efc0fc42"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248045"
source_hash: "336f88bfb63f416491a0fbc0c834e343d216b8c427f51f10383cde6806545ff4"
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 27 (2025) — TAX/TAXATION: Provides relative to the tax credit for donations to school tuition organizations. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB27 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1399536)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3817, W&M, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419881)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3912, W&M, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420497)
4. **SB27 Act 403** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425932)
5. **SB27 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413589)
6. **SB27 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418295)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1344, R&F, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412113)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1537, R&F, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413390)
9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1845, Bouie, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415607)
10. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2026, Talbot, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416679)
11. **SB27 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1423751)

## Votes

- AMENDMENT # 1845 BY BOUIE, SB 27 BY TALBOT (#371) — **11–26** (fail) · upper
- CONCUR (#864) — **25–10** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#947) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#372) — **28–9** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kirk Talbot — primary (person)
- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
- C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bayham — 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. 403. `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 25 yeas and 10 nays.
- **2025-06-08** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-08** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-06-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/08/2025.
- **2025-06-04** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-03** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2025-06-02** Reported with amendments (14-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-29** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-28** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2025-05-27** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 28 yeas and 9 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-27** Called from the Calendar.
- **2025-05-14** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2025-05-13** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2025-05-12** 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 Revenue and Fiscal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-28** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/813b926f-4ab8-40f2-a661-7844efc0fc42`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).