---
type: "Bill"
title: "SCHOOLS: Provides relative to the unauthorized possession of electronic telecommunication devices at school. (gov sig)"
description: "SCHOOLS: Provides relative to the unauthorized possession of electronic telecommunication devices at school. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 207"
citation: "Louisiana SB 207 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beth Mizell"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-05-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/950a2dca-9bee-41ae-9c07-bb60988ca0e1"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246363"
source_hash: "e84f2bc6f08c980e31cad9162718419a02e94f6dbf7dfffca4dd01e0e8af116c"
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 SB 207 (2024) — SCHOOLS: Provides relative to the unauthorized possession of electronic telecommunication devices at school. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB207 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1351915)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #4184, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371701)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #4274, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372285)
4. **SB207 Act 313** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380785)
5. **SB207 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358907)
6. **SB207 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377918)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#222) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1195) — **84–13** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#1088) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- CO-AUTHORS (#223) — **5–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Beth Mizell — primary (person)
- Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson-Andrews — cosponsor (person)
- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-28** Effective date 5/28/2024.
- **2024-05-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 313. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-28** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/23/2024. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-23** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-05-23** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-22** Rules suspended. Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2024-05-21** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-21** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 84, nays 13. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/2024.
- **2024-05-09** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-08** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-05-07** Reported with amendments (10-1). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-09** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-04-08** Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-02** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-03-27** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/950a2dca-9bee-41ae-9c07-bb60988ca0e1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).