---
type: "Bill"
title: "STUDENTS: Provides relative to administration of public schools (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)"
description: "STUDENTS: Provides relative to administration of public schools (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 315"
citation: "Louisiana HB 315 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles Owen"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-29"
last_action: "2023-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/26c7c331-a90c-4b8a-97de-f359ce79bdd3"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244212"
source_hash: "1703fc9f04e91d641c9744809401e58fce1b07b217dedfc3412b16c68f64a7db"
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 315 (2023) — STUDENTS: Provides relative to administration of public schools (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB315 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1307588)
2. **HB315 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332503)
3. **HB315 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320875)
4. **HB315 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323849)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2487, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1319734)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2687, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320844)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #3195, Owen, Charles, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323733)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #3201, Bacala, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323758)
9. **HB315 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329197)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#614) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#525) — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Charles Owen — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-12** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-12** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 346. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-06** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-05** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-04** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-04** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-02** 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`
- **2023-05-31** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-30** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **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. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-18** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/18/2023.
- **2023-05-11** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-10** Reported with amendments (8-0). `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.
- **2023-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/26c7c331-a90c-4b8a-97de-f359ce79bdd3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).