---
type: "Bill"
title: "SCHOOLS: Provides relative to charter schools. (gov sig) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "SCHOOLS: Provides relative to charter schools. (gov sig) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 350"
citation: "Louisiana SB 350 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rick Edmonds"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 20
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-05-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5372410f-781f-4c30-bad7-c336fd3e1f0c"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246631"
source_hash: "c00d3485ea7c487b88871f59ab6f4d08547cb28bdaaaa6ddcb3f5d4b67b83d52"
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 350 (2024) — SCHOOLS: Provides relative to charter schools. (gov sig) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB350 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352778)
2. **House Floor Amendment, #5045, Willard, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377620)
3. **SB350 Act 334** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380807)
4. **SB350 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1359131)
5. **SB350 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369221)
6. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2348, Edmonds, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1368130)
7. **SB350 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377713)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#411) — **27–9** (pass) · upper
- MODIFY TIME LIMITS (#1258) — **38–54** (fail) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1260) — **71–27** (pass) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 5045 BY WILLARD, MOTION TO ADOPT (#1259) — **37–58** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rick Edmonds — primary (person)
- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
- Josh Carlson — 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. 334. `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** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 71, nays 27. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/2024.
- **2024-05-13** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-09** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-05-08** Reported favorably (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-29** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-25** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-04-24** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 27 yeas and 9 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-24** Called from the Calendar.
- **2024-04-09** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **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/5372410f-781f-4c30-bad7-c336fd3e1f0c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).