republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2020s2/hb-40.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	TOPS: Provides relative to qualifications for Taylor Opportunity Program for Students scholarships (Item #43)	TOPS: Provides relative to qualifications for Taylor Opportunity Program for Students scholarships (Item #43)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2020s2	HB 40	Louisiana HB 40 (2020s2)	bill		enacted	Ray Garofalo	6	16	2	2020-09-28	2020-10-28	openstates	ocd-bill/186f97c6-5132-4bf2-8b54-b43504c771f8	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239486	87298f755d5cf0148d6648a8617461c76c6e4344b232706043879d7673946215	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 40 (2020s2) — TOPS: Provides relative to qualifications for Taylor Opportunity Program for Students scholarships (Item #43)

Version chain

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

1. HB40 Original (filed) — source
2. HB40 Act 17 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB40 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB40 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #414, Horton, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. HB40 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#98) — 95–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#161) — 32–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ray Garofalo — primary (person)
• Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-10-28 Effective date: 10/28/2020.
• 2020-10-28 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 17. executive-signature
• 2020-10-23 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2020-10-22 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2020-10-22 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2020-10-21 Received from the Senate without amendments.
• 2020-10-21 Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2020-10-20 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2020-10-20 Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2020-10-13 Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. referral-committee
• 2020-10-13 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2020-10-12 Scheduled for floor debate on 10/13/20.
• 2020-10-12 Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2020-10-12 Rules suspended.
• 2020-10-12 Reported favorably (11-0).
• 2020-09-28 Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Education. referral-committee

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/186f97c6-5132-4bf2-8b54-b43504c771f8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).