republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2018/hb-87.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	STUDENT/TUITION: Provides relative to the definition of institution of postsecondary education for purposes of the La. Student Tuition Assistance and Revenue Trust (START) Program (EN NO IMPACT See Note)	STUDENT/TUITION: Provides relative to the definition of institution of postsecondary education for purposes of the La. Student Tuition Assistance and Revenue Trust (START) Program (EN NO IMPACT See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2018	HB 87	Louisiana HB 87 (2018)	bill		enacted	Edward Ted James	4	20	2	2018-02-20	2018-05-10	openstates	ocd-bill/ebb29b16-30b7-4f44-99ae-44f5c7f8c85b	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233224	cbcbf040aab3c169a733344a16beb5391f1faed5756a6daf42ac1db953824008	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 87 (2018) — STUDENT/TUITION: Provides relative to the definition of institution of postsecondary education for purposes of the La. Student Tuition Assistance and Revenue Trust (START) Program (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

Version chain

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

1. HB87 Original (filed) — source
2. HB87 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. HB87 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB87 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#568) — 30–0 (pass) · legislature
• FINAL PASSAGE (#244) — 97–1 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Edward Ted James — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-05-10 Effective date: 08/01/2018.
• 2018-05-10 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 53. executive-signature
• 2018-05-01 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2018-04-30 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2018-04-27 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2018-04-26 Received from the Senate without amendments.
• 2018-04-26 Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 30 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2018-04-25 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2018-04-24 Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2018-04-23 Reported favorably.
• 2018-04-05 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. referral-committee
• 2018-04-04 Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
• 2018-04-04 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2018-03-29 Scheduled for floor debate on 04/04/18.
• 2018-03-29 Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2018-03-28 Reported favorably (14-0).
• 2018-03-12 Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Education. referral-committee
• 2018-02-23 First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/23/2018.
• 2018-02-20 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. referral-committee
• 2018-02-20 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ebb29b16-30b7-4f44-99ae-44f5c7f8c85b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).