---
type: "Bill"
title: "SCHOOLS/CHARTER: Authorizes initial proposals for charter schools with corporate partners to be made to the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education as Type 2 charter school proposals (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF RV)"
description: "SCHOOLS/CHARTER: Authorizes initial proposals for charter schools with corporate partners to be made to the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education as Type 2 charter school proposals (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF RV)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 78"
citation: "Louisiana HB 78 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kim Carver"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-14"
last_action: "2024-05-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/89b0388d-4407-48e6-9282-7cddb73069af"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245620"
source_hash: "e77e767f63ad548fe48eb0239537325c728e6e061d7d87fea606f6045f922530"
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 78 (2024) — SCHOOLS/CHARTER: Authorizes initial proposals for charter schools with corporate partners to be made to the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education as Type 2 charter school proposals (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF RV)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB78 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1343293)
2. **HB78 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380481)
3. **HB78 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356657)
4. **HB78 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375608)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#852) — **26–10** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#100) — **90–13** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kim Carver — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-28** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-05-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 364. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-21** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-20** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-20** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-20** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 26 yeas and 10 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-29** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-04-24** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-27** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-26** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-03-26** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 13. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-03-25** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/26/2024.
- **2024-03-25** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-03-21** Reported favorably (10-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-16** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/16/2024.
- **2024-02-14** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-14** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/89b0388d-4407-48e6-9282-7cddb73069af`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).