---
type: "Bill"
title: "HIGHER EDUCATION: Provides relative to initial eligibility requirements for the M.J. Foster Promise Program (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX)"
description: "HIGHER EDUCATION: Provides relative to initial eligibility requirements for the M.J. Foster Promise Program (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 728"
citation: "Louisiana HB 728 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Paula Davis"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 29
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-03-11"
last_action: "2024-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b5c6b531-7eaa-4d6f-8978-d909aa118764"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246702"
source_hash: "670bf13796e24127cdfa3b402662075e62352f8f55191bce0df00b2a747b0289"
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 728 (2024) — HIGHER EDUCATION: Provides relative to initial eligibility requirements for the M.J. Foster Promise Program (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB728 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1353623)
2. **HB728 Act 633** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382362)
3. **HB728 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358704)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3266, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372817)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3659, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374975)
6. **Senate Floor Amendment, #4276, Foil, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379023)
7. **HB728 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380755)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1664) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1313) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#427) — **98–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Paula Davis — primary (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Jeremy LaCombe — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
- Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. St. Blanc , III — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-11** Effective date: 6/11/2024.
- **2024-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 633. `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`
- **2024-05-30** Read by title, roll called, yeas 93, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-05-30** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/30/2024.
- **2024-05-30** Rules suspended.
- **2024-05-30** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-29** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-28** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **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.
- **2024-05-20** Senate Committee amendments read and adopted.
- **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, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 4. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-10** Called from the calendar.
- **2024-04-09** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/10/2024.
- **2024-04-09** Notice given.
- **2024-04-04** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2024-04-03** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/04/2024.
- **2024-04-02** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-03-27** Reported favorably (14-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b5c6b531-7eaa-4d6f-8978-d909aa118764`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).