---
type: "Bill"
title: "SCHOOLS/BOARDS: Authorizes a public school to sell and trade certain technology equipment"
description: "SCHOOLS/BOARDS: Authorizes a public school to sell and trade certain technology equipment"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 213"
citation: "Louisiana HB 213 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Vincent J. St. Blanc , III"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-01"
last_action: "2025-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dc97749b-4dbd-455e-8618-940b7e64d68c"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248140"
source_hash: "b7371d855c4ac323dae0d361d58216a99ab8678f099e754aaa8aa793abeb0949"
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 213 (2025) — SCHOOLS/BOARDS: Authorizes a public school to sell and trade certain technology equipment

## Version chain

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

1. **HB213 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1400845)
2. **HB213 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425081)
3. **HB213 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407565)
4. **HB213 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413212)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #1991, St. Blanc, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409883)
6. **HB213 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419749)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#490) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#312) — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Vincent J. St. Blanc , III — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-08** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 161. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-02** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-02** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-05-29** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-27** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-21** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-13** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-12** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-08** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-08** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-05-07** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/08/2025.
- **2025-05-07** Notice given.
- **2025-04-29** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **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 (9-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dc97749b-4dbd-455e-8618-940b7e64d68c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).