---
type: "Bill"
title: "STUDENTS: Provides relative to student behavior, discipline, and behavioral and mental health (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
description: "STUDENTS: Provides relative to student behavior, discipline, and behavioral and mental health (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 353"
citation: "Louisiana HB 353 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["C. Denise Marcelle"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 25
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-29"
last_action: "2023-06-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/902d23f1-fb80-437f-928f-18ab6bde1b2d"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244251"
source_hash: "2d0e822c41a09eac9e210c21aab67b5e45f9c3d0b859417b57c99f23f0b5b1c2"
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 353 (2023) — STUDENTS: Provides relative to student behavior, discipline, and behavioral and mental health (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB353 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1307896)
2. **HB353 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332476)
3. **HB353 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322495)
4. **HB353 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325080)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2690, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320837)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #3003, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322459)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #3450, Marcelle, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325023)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2359, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326657)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2614, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328264)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2641, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328366)
11. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2839, Jackson, Katrina, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329737)
12. **HB353 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1330841)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#859) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1075) — **95–6** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#585) — **93–6** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- C. Denise Marcelle — primary (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-09** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-09** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 318. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-08** 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`
- **2023-06-06** Read by title, roll called, yeas 95, nays 6, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2023-06-05** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/06/2023.
- **2023-06-05** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-05** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 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.
- **2023-06-02** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2023-06-02** Senate Committee amendments read and adopted.
- **2023-06-01** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-25** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-24** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-23** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 6. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/23/2023.
- **2023-05-17** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-16** Reported with amendments (9-1-1). `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/902d23f1-fb80-437f-928f-18ab6bde1b2d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).