republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2020/sb-78.md

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Bill	STUDENTS: Provides relative to disbursement of funds from START savings accounts. (8/1/20) (EN DECREASE GF RV See Note)	STUDENTS: Provides relative to disbursement of funds from START savings accounts. (8/1/20) (EN DECREASE GF RV See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2020	SB 78	Louisiana SB 78 (2020)	bill		enacted	Franklin J. Foil	6	18	2	2020-02-20	2020-06-05	openstates	ocd-bill/9afa74dd-5783-481d-9fac-79435f812ac9	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237594	88763fd4ec8f8f9593a21e8418985ef0b7491682bfab46a550361b66d4a220a1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana SB 78 (2020) — STUDENTS: Provides relative to disbursement of funds from START savings accounts. (8/1/20) (EN DECREASE GF RV See Note)

Version chain

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

1. SB78 Original (filed) — source
2. SB78 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. SB78 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. SB78 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. Senate Committee Amendment, #1164, R&F, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. SB78 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#138) — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#486) — 100–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Franklin J. Foil — primary (person)
• Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-06-05 Effective date 8/1/2020.
• 2020-06-05 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 56. executive-signature
• 2020-06-01 Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. executive-receipt
• 2020-05-31 Signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2020-05-28 Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2020-05-27 Received from the House without amendments.
• 2020-05-27 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2020-05-22 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/27/20.
• 2020-05-21 Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2020-05-20 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
• 2020-05-20 Reported favorably (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2020-05-13 Received in the House from the Senate, rules suspended, read by title, referred to the Committee on Education. referral-committee
• 2020-05-12 Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2020-05-11 Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Read by title; Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered reengrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2020-03-16 Read by title. Ordered engrossed and recommitted to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs.
• 2020-03-11 Reported favorably.
• 2020-03-09 Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Education. referral-committee
• 2020-02-20 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/9afa74dd-5783-481d-9fac-79435f812ac9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).