--- type: "Bill" title: "STUDENT/DISCIPLINE: Provides for the transfer of school disciplinary records (EN NO IMPACT See Note)" description: "STUDENT/DISCIPLINE: Provides for the transfer of school disciplinary records (EN NO IMPACT See Note)" jurisdiction: "us/states/la" legislature: "Louisiana Legislature" session: "2025" identifier: "HB 344" citation: "Louisiana HB 344 (2025)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: [] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Stephanie Berault"] version_count: 7 action_count: 19 vote_count: 2 first_action: "2025-04-03" last_action: "2025-06-08" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3958ff18-edc2-450a-af7b-6c210c168e99" source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248309" source_hash: "581c7f4fa7064ec2f235b1243313f740f5773a135ae2b8d9a9ee67071e32eb9f" 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 344 (2025) — STUDENT/DISCIPLINE: Provides for the transfer of school disciplinary records (EN NO IMPACT See Note) ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **HB344 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1402569) 2. **HB344 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425105) 3. **HB344 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412670) 4. **House Committee Amendment, #2019, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410210) 5. **House Committee Amendment, #2022, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410218) 6. **House Committee Amendment, #2383, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412535) 7. **HB344 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420790) ## Votes - FINAL PASSAGE (#590) — **38–0** (pass) · upper - FINAL PASSAGE (#373) — **97–0** (pass) · lower ## Sponsors - Stephanie Berault — 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. 181. `became-law, executive-signature` - **2025-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt` - **2025-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate. - **2025-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled` - **2025-06-03** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt` - **2025-06-02** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage` - **2025-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3` - **2025-06-01** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. - **2025-05-29** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable` - **2025-05-19** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee` - **2025-05-14** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1` - **2025-05-13** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage` - **2025-05-12** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/13/2025. - **2025-05-08** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3` - **2025-05-07** Reported with amendments (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable` - **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee` - **2025-04-03** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee` - **2025-04-03** Prefiled. `filing` ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3958ff18-edc2-450a-af7b-6c210c168e99`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).