---
type: "Bill"
title: "HIGHER EDUCATION: Establishes a state maritime academy within the University of Louisiana System (EN +$210,000 GF EX See Note)"
description: "HIGHER EDUCATION: Establishes a state maritime academy within the University of Louisiana System (EN +$210,000 GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 258"
citation: "Louisiana HB 258 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark Wright"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-28"
last_action: "2023-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4f15f34e-ebbd-4fe6-ac26-f25b0f8a4e83"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244130"
source_hash: "5acda4d7825b9fa8826887a220789dd730348c53e888e632aed1c2689fefa821"
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 258 (2023) — HIGHER EDUCATION: Establishes a state maritime academy within the University of Louisiana System (EN +$210,000 GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB258 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1306393)
2. **HB258 Act 231** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332293)
3. **HB258 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318145)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1384, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316643)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2193, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318056)
6. **HB258 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1330369)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#556) — **96–1** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#855) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mark Wright — primary (person)
- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
- Phillip Tarver — cosponsor (person)
- Tammy Phelps — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. St. Blanc , III — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-08** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 231. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-07** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-07** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-05** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-05** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-06-04** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-06-04** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-06-04** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
- **2023-05-30** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2023-05-29** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-23** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-22** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/2023.
- **2023-05-16** Read by title, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-15** Reported favorably (17-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-03** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2023-05-02** Reported with amendments (10-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4f15f34e-ebbd-4fe6-ac26-f25b0f8a4e83`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).