---
type: "Bill"
title: "STUDENTS: Provides relative to fees charged to students in elementary and secondary schools"
description: "STUDENTS: Provides relative to fees charged to students in elementary and secondary schools"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 517"
citation: "Louisiana HB 517 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patricia Smith"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-29"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d766e559-df7c-4944-9c44-62c960d6d7f0"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236363"
source_hash: "5f2d685389efb377819f2ebc040fb81ea2433de272e2e9194b48465a7eb301cd"
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 HB 517 (2019) — STUDENTS: Provides relative to fees charged to students in elementary and secondary schools

## Version chain

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

1. **HB517 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1122137)
2. **HB517 Act 240** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144104)
3. **HB517 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130110)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1635, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127966)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1921, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129878)
6. **HB517 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141134)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#763) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#314) — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Patricia Smith — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-11** Effective date: See Act.
- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 240. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-02** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-06-01** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-06-01** Rules suspended.
- **2019-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-27** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-15** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/19.
- **2019-05-02** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-01** Reported with amendments (9-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d766e559-df7c-4944-9c44-62c960d6d7f0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).