---
type: "Bill"
title: "INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: Creates the Louisiana Foundational Integrated Research System for Transformation (LA FIRST). (gov sig) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
description: "INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: Creates the Louisiana Foundational Integrated Research System for Transformation (LA FIRST). (gov sig) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 205"
citation: "Louisiana SB 205 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patrick Page Cortez"]
version_count: 15
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-31"
last_action: "2023-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/47b6b436-76d8-4270-9460-83c3ec5788e7"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244629"
source_hash: "4d9d8792f012fd5a055d4351ff3643303dfa1053623d9177d34245240d1b8546"
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 SB 205 (2023) — INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: Creates the Louisiana Foundational Integrated Research System for Transformation (LA FIRST). (gov sig) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB205 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1310022)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #2980, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322391)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3019, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322528)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #3659, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326580)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #3758, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1327210)
6. **SB205 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332593)
7. **SB205 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317085)
8. **SB205 Re-Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320988)
9. **SB205 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1319785)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1001, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316565)
11. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1034, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316770)
12. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1458, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1319697)
13. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1076, Mills, Fred, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317150)
14. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1501, Mills, Fred, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320064)
15. **SB205 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1330990)

## Votes

- CONCUR (#918) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#275) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#977) — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Patrick Page Cortez — primary (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory Tarver — cosponsor (person)
- Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Mack Bodi White, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Mills — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-14** Effective date: See Act.
- **2023-06-14** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 394. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-08** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-07** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2023-06-07** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-06** Rules suspended. Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2023-06-05** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-05** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-06-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/05/2023.
- **2023-06-01** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-31** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2023-05-30** Reported with amendments (16-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-17** Read by title, amended, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2023-05-16** Reported with amendments (7-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-15** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-11** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2023-05-10** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays; ordered re--reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-09** Read by title; Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered reengrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2023-05-08** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-01** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title; recommitted to the Committee on Finance. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-31** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/47b6b436-76d8-4270-9460-83c3ec5788e7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).