republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2019/sb-117.md

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Bill	POSTSECONDARY ED: Provides relative to postsecondary textbooks and instructional materials. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE SG EX See Note)	POSTSECONDARY ED: Provides relative to postsecondary textbooks and instructional materials. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE SG EX See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2019	SB 117	Louisiana SB 117 (2019)	bill		enacted	Mike Walsworth	10	20	2	2019-03-27	2019-06-06	openstates	ocd-bill/90226249-956d-4b9a-b42f-cbc0b9b7f786	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236063	c784763692b8bf34d4523e2b8692068bb3fe2907f907fcd3600b11aa4cec9ce1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana SB 117 (2019) — POSTSECONDARY ED: Provides relative to postsecondary textbooks and instructional materials. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE SG EX See Note)

Version chain

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

1. SB117 Original (filed) — source
2. SB117 Act 125 (committee substitute) — source
3. SB117 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. SB117 Re-Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. SB117 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
6. Senate Committee Amendment, #1474, EDUC, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Committee Amendment, #1863, FNCE, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. Senate Floor Amendment, #2099, Walsworth, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1942, Martiny, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
10. SB117 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#825) — 95–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#389) — 35–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Mike Walsworth — primary (person)
• Andy Anders — cosponsor (person)
• Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
• Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
• Charles R. "Bubba" Chaney — cosponsor (person)
• Christopher Turner — cosponsor (person)
• Dan W. Morrish — cosponsor (person)
• Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
• Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
• Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
• Frank Hoffmann — cosponsor (person)
• Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
• Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
• Jean-Paul Coussan — cosponsor (person)
• Jerry "Truck" Gisclair — cosponsor (person)
• John Stefanski — cosponsor (person)
• Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
• Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
• Julie Stokes — cosponsor (person)
• Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
• Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
• Mack Bodi White, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Huval — cosponsor (person)
• Nancy Landry — cosponsor (person)
• Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
• Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
• Polly Thomas — cosponsor (person)
• Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
• Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
• Robert E. Billiot — cosponsor (person)
• Robert Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Ryan Bourriaque — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie Hilferty — cosponsor (person)
• Steve Carter — cosponsor (person)
• Terry Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Thomas Carmody — cosponsor (person)
• Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
• Walt Leger, III — cosponsor (person)
• Wesley Bishop — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-06-06 Effective date 6/6/2019.
• 2019-06-06 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 125. executive-signature
• 2019-06-06 Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. executive-receipt
• 2019-06-04 Signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2019-06-04 Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2019-06-03 Received from the House without amendments.
• 2019-06-02 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2019-05-31 Scheduled for floor debate on 06/02/19.
• 2019-05-31 Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2019-05-30 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
• 2019-05-29 Reported favorably (12-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2019-05-22 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. referral-committee
• 2019-05-21 Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
• 2019-05-20 Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays; ordered re- reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2019-05-16 Read by title; Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered reengrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2019-05-15 Reported with amendments.
• 2019-05-07 Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted; ordered engrossed and recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
• 2019-05-06 Reported with amendments.
• 2019-04-08 Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Education. referral-committee
• 2019-03-27 Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. filing, referral-committee

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/90226249-956d-4b9a-b42f-cbc0b9b7f786. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).