---
type: "Bill"
title: "STUDENTS: Expands the purpose of the Steve Carter Literacy Program to include educational services in math (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
description: "STUDENTS: Expands the purpose of the Steve Carter Literacy Program to include educational services in math (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 244"
citation: "Louisiana HB 244 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jason Hughes"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 28
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-02-27"
last_action: "2024-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1460b60e-776e-4137-80c1-368e8978e7f0"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245857"
source_hash: "ee795849bf80033d6c1e0a6e292ef70347bb68850e6530b2c4e81bf192499234"
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 244 (2024) — STUDENTS: Expands the purpose of the Steve Carter Literacy Program to include educational services in math (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB244 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1347779)
2. **HB244 Act 649** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382675)
3. **HB244 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356875)
4. **HB244 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372855)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1230, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354495)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1591, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356803)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #1636, Hughes, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1357076)
8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #4391, Harris, Jimmy, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380372)
9. **HB244 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381075)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1691) — **88–2** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1366) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#912) — **94–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jason Hughes — primary (person)
- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- Josh Carlson — cosponsor (person)
- Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
- Laurie Schlegel — cosponsor (person)
- Rashid Young — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-11** Effective date: See Act.
- **2024-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 649. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-06-04** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-31** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 88, nays 2, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-05-30** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/2024.
- **2024-05-30** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-30** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-30** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2024-05-29** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2024-05-29** Rules suspended.
- **2024-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-28** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-28** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
- **2024-05-20** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2024-05-16** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-13** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-08** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-05-08** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 4. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-07** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/08/2024.
- **2024-05-07** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-06** Reported favorably (19-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-25** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2024-03-21** Reported with amendments (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-27** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1460b60e-776e-4137-80c1-368e8978e7f0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).