---
type: "Bill"
title: "WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT: Provides for workforce training and education initiative for public assistance recipients. (8/1/24)"
description: "WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT: Provides for workforce training and education initiative for public assistance recipients. (8/1/24)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 356"
citation: "Louisiana SB 356 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Katrina Jackson-Andrews"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-05-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f2b9f0a1-2f1c-4463-be32-0a45c8bdabe5"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246637"
source_hash: "cd0caca5277820af915a00eeefe077e6c8b0e65fb36e561aff19881cf8a5dc14"
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 356 (2024) — WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT: Provides for workforce training and education initiative for public assistance recipients. (8/1/24)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB356 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352790)
2. **House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2961, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371358)
3. **SB356 Act 336** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380809)
4. **SB356 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1359158)
5. **SB356 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362223)
6. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #1514, Jackson-Andrews, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361734)
7. **SB356 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377302)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#202) — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR (#1034) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1147) — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Katrina Jackson-Andrews — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-28** Effective date 8/1/2024.
- **2024-05-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 336. `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.
- **2024-05-22** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-21** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2024-05-20** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-20** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-15** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/20/2024.
- **2024-05-07** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-06** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-05-01** Reported favorably (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-04** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-04-03** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed 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** 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 Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f2b9f0a1-2f1c-4463-be32-0a45c8bdabe5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).