---
type: "Bill"
title: "STUDENT/DISCIPLINE: Provides relative to disciplinary penalties for certain public school students found to be in possession of certain substances on school property"
description: "STUDENT/DISCIPLINE: Provides relative to disciplinary penalties for certain public school students found to be in possession of certain substances on school property"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 384"
citation: "Louisiana HB 384 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Marcus Bryant"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 23
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-04-03"
last_action: "2025-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c68617cb-0492-4b1c-b590-d7173e4210e2"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248378"
source_hash: "6866d939ea739a67b50a0d885fd3d5a28d1eb2e7863200891fa0bacd94272f1b"
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 384 (2025) — STUDENT/DISCIPLINE: Provides relative to disciplinary penalties for certain public school students found to be in possession of certain substances on school property

## Version chain

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

1. **HB384 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1403129)
2. **HB384 Act 497** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1427688)
3. **HB384 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412453)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1615, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408126)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2409, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412421)
6. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2700, Mizell, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421068)
7. **HB384 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424257)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#376) — **89–1** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1122) — **91–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#768) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Marcus Bryant — primary (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-07-01** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-07-01** Becomes Act No. 497 without the Governor's signature. `became-law`
- **2025-06-11** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-11** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-11** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-10** Read by title, roll called, yeas 91, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2025-06-09** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/10/2025.
- **2025-06-09** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-08** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2025-06-02** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **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 89, nays 1. 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 (12-0). `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/c68617cb-0492-4b1c-b590-d7173e4210e2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).