---
type: "Bill"
title: "SCHOOLS: Provides relative to school safety"
description: "SCHOOLS: Provides relative to school safety"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 348"
citation: "Louisiana HB 348 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Samuel Jenkins"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 26
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-29"
last_action: "2023-06-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f147c3d1-eefd-4824-bee1-ec344fb89c4f"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244246"
source_hash: "c4a72be431bae2cd62456ad105101d9459e499f5586102b86c47bf4a6e1d3a48"
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 348 (2023) — SCHOOLS: Provides relative to school safety

## Version chain

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

1. **HB348 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1307881)
2. **HB348 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332128)
3. **HB348 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318375)
4. **HB348 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322261)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2090, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317543)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2232, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318255)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2344, Jenkins, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318986)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2201, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325754)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2219, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325829)
10. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #2334, Fields, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1327209)
11. **HB348 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328329)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#402) — **102–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#790) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#571) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Samuel Jenkins — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
- Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
- Jeremy LaCombe — cosponsor (person)
- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
- Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Tammy Phelps — cosponsor (person)
- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-07** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-07** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 164. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-04** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-02** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 95, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2023-05-30** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/2023.
- **2023-05-30** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-30** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-29** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-26** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-25** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-17** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-16** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-15** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-15** Called from the calendar.
- **2023-05-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/2023.
- **2023-05-11** Notice given.
- **2023-05-11** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2023-05-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/11/2023.
- **2023-05-03** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-02** Reported with amendments (11-0). `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/f147c3d1-eefd-4824-bee1-ec344fb89c4f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).