---
type: "Bill"
title: "STUDENT/LOANS-SCHOLARSHP: Creates the Louisiana National Guard Patriot Scholarship Program to cover the cost of mandatory fees for members attending La. public postsecondary education institutions (EG INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
description: "STUDENT/LOANS-SCHOLARSHP: Creates the Louisiana National Guard Patriot Scholarship Program to cover the cost of mandatory fees for members attending La. public postsecondary education institutions (EG INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 485"
citation: "Louisiana HB 485 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ken Brass"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-31"
last_action: "2023-06-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/34562bb0-b81b-446a-a188-db2234c510f8"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244452"
source_hash: "649a797e446ac93472c40f084e64ca940c2a61ff2e9089c3c5cd36ca82be11fb"
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 485 (2023) — STUDENT/LOANS-SCHOLARSHP: Creates the Louisiana National Guard Patriot Scholarship Program to cover the cost of mandatory fees for members attending La. public postsecondary education institutions (EG INCREASE GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB485 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1309310)
2. **HB485 Act 279** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332441)
3. **HB485 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313947)
4. **HB485 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329467)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#477) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#685) — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ken Brass — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- Beau Beaullieu — cosponsor (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- Brett Geymann — cosponsor (person)
- Chad Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Clay Schexnayder — cosponsor (person)
- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Dustin Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
- Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person)
- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Mills — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Tammy Phelps — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-09** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-09** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 279. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-07** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-06** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-05** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-04** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-04** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-06-02** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-06-01** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-31** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-26** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2023-05-25** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-18** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-17** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-17** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/17/2023.
- **2023-05-09** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-08** Reported favorably (18-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-24** Read by title, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2023-04-20** Reported favorably (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-31** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-31** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/34562bb0-b81b-446a-a188-db2234c510f8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).