---
type: "Bill"
title: "TELEVISION/EDUCATIONAL: Requires the Louisiana Educational Television Authority (LETA) to include funds for French language educational programming in its annual budget request to the division of administration"
description: "TELEVISION/EDUCATIONAL: Requires the Louisiana Educational Television Authority (LETA) to include funds for French language educational programming in its annual budget request to the division of administration"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 547"
citation: "Louisiana HB 547 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beryl Amedee"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/16461df7-77b2-43b2-9933-d99b3cc3319e"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246305"
source_hash: "5ae87e25489e78199132708e0c82f39d57c4c53bcd9df0c403fa08a989e69866"
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 547 (2024) — TELEVISION/EDUCATIONAL: Requires the Louisiana Educational Television Authority (LETA) to include funds for French language educational programming in its annual budget request to the division of administration

## Version chain

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

1. **HB547 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1351663)
2. **HB547 Act 705** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382726)
3. **HB547 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362404)
4. **Senate Floor Amendment, #4138, Bass, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377938)
5. **HB547 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378593)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#1171) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#396) — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Beryl Amedee — primary (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-19** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-19** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 705. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-31** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-28** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-28** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-28** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-23** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-21** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-20** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-16** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-15** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-10** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-09** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/10/2024.
- **2024-04-08** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-04** Reported favorably (13-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/16461df7-77b2-43b2-9933-d99b3cc3319e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).