---
type: "Bill"
title: "SCHOOLS/LOCAL SUPERINTDT: Provides relative to the employment of superintendents of schools"
description: "SCHOOLS/LOCAL SUPERINTDT: Provides relative to the employment of superintendents of schools"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 655"
citation: "Louisiana HB 655 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Buddy Mincey"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-28"
last_action: "2020-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4da47928-1ef7-4240-afd5-6dd61a3897c5"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238399"
source_hash: "38bbe85a27cc495bae98897e515eb645ae9879e409068ac97d133c4d6a3ae5f5"
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 655 (2020) — SCHOOLS/LOCAL SUPERINTDT: Provides relative to the employment of superintendents of schools

## Version chain

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

1. **HB655 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1163977)
2. **HB655 Act 292** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182369)
3. **HB655 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1171733)
4. **HB655 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177665)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#264) — **102–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#538) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Buddy Mincey — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-12** Effective date: 08/01/2020.
- **2020-06-12** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 292. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-29** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2020-05-29** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-28** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-21** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2020-05-21** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/20.
- **2020-05-15** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-13** Reported favorably (14-0).
- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4da47928-1ef7-4240-afd5-6dd61a3897c5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).