---
type: "Bill"
title: "SCHOOLS: Authorizes school boards to provide for chaplains to serve in public schools as employees or on a volunteer basis (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)"
description: "SCHOOLS: Authorizes school boards to provide for chaplains to serve in public schools as employees or on a volunteer basis (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 334"
citation: "Louisiana HB 334 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beryl Amedee"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-02-29"
last_action: "2024-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/57fa48c6-6cfc-44d0-9f94-813f75518cd0"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246017"
source_hash: "0a21fd36366b49bf65aeeb26b567b86d8228a02e8271f9ee807c3c5ac5010ca6"
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 334 (2024) — SCHOOLS: Authorizes school boards to provide for chaplains to serve in public schools as employees or on a volunteer basis (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB334 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1349896)
2. **HB334 Act 688** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382709)
3. **HB334 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362382)
4. **HB334 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364569)
5. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1646, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362730)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3587, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374661)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3739, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375374)
8. **Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #3820, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1376005)
9. **HB334 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379887)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1576) — **77–18** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1170) — **30–5** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#391) — **86–6** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Beryl Amedee — primary (person)
- Joseph Orgeron — cosponsor (person)
- Josh Carlson — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
- Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
- Laurie Schlegel — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Melerine — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-19** Effective date: 06/19/2024.
- **2024-06-19** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 688. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-30** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-29** Read by title, roll called, yeas 77, nays 18, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-05-28** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2024.
- **2024-05-28** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-23** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 30 yeas and 5 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-21** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-20** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-16** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-15** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-10** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 86, nays 6. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-09** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/10/2024.
- **2024-04-08** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-04** Reported favorably (13-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-29** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/57fa48c6-6cfc-44d0-9f94-813f75518cd0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).