---
type: "Bill"
title: "SCHOOLS/HIGH SCHOOL: Prohibits the use of an appeals process for certain students who fail to pass state-administered tests required for high school graduation"
description: "SCHOOLS/HIGH SCHOOL: Prohibits the use of an appeals process for certain students who fail to pass state-administered tests required for high school graduation"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 8"
citation: "Louisiana HB 8 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael Melerine"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-17"
last_action: "2024-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/33614526-c672-4f4b-af38-2d91e90b4b5b"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245522"
source_hash: "893e6f8a7ef303e7d6fab52879295d0f435b9bc0d57de839d0ea573b2c5b1fca"
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 8 (2024) — SCHOOLS/HIGH SCHOOL: Prohibits the use of an appeals process for certain students who fail to pass state-administered tests required for high school graduation

## Version chain

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

1. **HB8 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1340437)
2. **HB8 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379593)
3. **HB8 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356629)
4. **HB8 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375747)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#94) — **83–20** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#904) — **24–10** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Michael Melerine — primary (person)
- Jason Hughes — 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. 247. `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 24 yeas and 10 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-07** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-06** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-01** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-27** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-26** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-03-26** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 83, nays 20. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-03-25** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/26/2024.
- **2024-03-25** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-03-21** Reported favorably (10-3). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-19** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 1/19/2024.
- **2024-01-17** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-17** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/33614526-c672-4f4b-af38-2d91e90b4b5b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).