---
type: "Bill"
title: "STUDENT/LOANS-SCHOLARSHP: Provides relative to scholarships awarded through the Geaux Teach Program (EN INCREASE SD EX See Note)"
description: "STUDENT/LOANS-SCHOLARSHP: Provides relative to scholarships awarded through the Geaux Teach Program (EN INCREASE SD EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 109"
citation: "Louisiana HB 109 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Francis C. Thompson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-24"
last_action: "2025-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/77db3c20-2236-4b31-9190-291fdc240f21"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248006"
source_hash: "bf529ab72a91ea698f2c155970aeb7c89abadd74fd4800fcaedd104352c7e45f"
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 109 (2025) — STUDENT/LOANS-SCHOLARSHP: Provides relative to scholarships awarded through the Geaux Teach Program (EN INCREASE SD EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB109 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1398138)
2. **HB109 Act 59** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422265)
3. **HB109 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407544)
4. **HB109 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419163)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#102) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#417) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Francis C. Thompson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-04** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 59. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-05-30** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate on 5/29/2025.
- **2025-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-05-29** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-05-28** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-13** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-12** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-08** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-30** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-29** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-04-29** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-04-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/29/2025.
- **2025-04-24** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-23** Reported favorably (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-28** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/28/2025.
- **2025-03-24** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/77db3c20-2236-4b31-9190-291fdc240f21`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).