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type: "Bill"
title: "STUDENTS: Provides relative to disbursement of funds from START savings accounts. (8/1/20) (EN DECREASE GF RV See Note)"
description: "STUDENTS: Provides relative to disbursement of funds from START savings accounts. (8/1/20) (EN DECREASE GF RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 78"
citation: "Louisiana SB 78 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Franklin J. Foil"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-20"
last_action: "2020-06-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9afa74dd-5783-481d-9fac-79435f812ac9"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237594"
source_hash: "88763fd4ec8f8f9593a21e8418985ef0b7491682bfab46a550361b66d4a220a1"
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 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](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1156904)
2. **SB78 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1180280)
3. **SB78 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1165294)
4. **SB78 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1171006)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1164, R&F, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170667)
6. **SB78 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176622)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#138) — **350** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#486) — **1000** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9afa74dd-5783-481d-9fac-79435f812ac9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).