---
type: "Bill"
title: "EDUCATION/SPECIAL: Provides relative to special education (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "EDUCATION/SPECIAL: Provides relative to special education (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 153"
citation: "Louisiana HB 153 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tony Bacala"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-23"
last_action: "2024-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e3d21f1a-6c76-4ee6-b2a8-7fd4e045edcf"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245717"
source_hash: "567ba42e3f5d19c6238776f8ce2eb40e4cbb88128029f80afce708cb0b18507e"
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 153 (2024) — EDUCATION/SPECIAL: Provides relative to special education (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB153 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1345890)
2. **HB153 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379507)
3. **HB153 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358006)
4. **HB153 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375590)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#857) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#173) — **102–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Tony Bacala — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Melerine — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-23** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-05-23** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 198. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-21** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-20** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-20** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-20** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-29** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-04-24** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-08** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-03** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-02** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-03-27** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/02/2024.
- **2024-03-27** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-03-26** Reported favorably (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-23** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/23/2024.
- **2024-02-23** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-23** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e3d21f1a-6c76-4ee6-b2a8-7fd4e045edcf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).