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Bill	COLLEGES/UNIVERSITIES: Grants certain operational autonomies to certain public postsecondary education institutions. (gov sig) (Item #42) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX See Note)	COLLEGES/UNIVERSITIES: Grants certain operational autonomies to certain public postsecondary education institutions. (gov sig) (Item #42) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2020s2	SB 32	Louisiana SB 32 (2020s2)	bill		enacted	Cleo Fields	8	19	4	2020-09-29	2020-10-28	openstates	ocd-bill/3d61c884-9ff0-43be-b843-3b0f7cca2e1a	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239498	2c3a2cb5c7eb5ae1d9e934ad628d29ddd50b5c885f55ab1b8f54b16875696e3a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana SB 32 (2020s2) — COLLEGES/UNIVERSITIES: Grants certain operational autonomies to certain public postsecondary education institutions. (gov sig) (Item #42) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX See Note)

Version chain

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

1. SB32 Original (filed) — source
2. House Floor Amendment, #482, Bacala, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
3. House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #416, BUREAU, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
4. SB32 Act 36 (committee substitute) — source
5. SB32 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
6. SB32 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #212, Mills, Fred, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. SB32 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• CONCUR (#132) — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#132) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#31) — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• CO-AUTHORS (#32) — 25–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Cleo Fields — primary (person)
• Barry Milligan — cosponsor (person)
• Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
• Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)
• Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
• Gregory Tarver — cosponsor (person)
• Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
• J. Rogers Pope — cosponsor (person)
• Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
• Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)
• Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
• Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
• Louie Bernard — cosponsor (person)
• Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person)
• Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)
• Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
• Rick Ward, III — cosponsor (person)
• Robert Mills — cosponsor (person)
• Ronnie Johns — cosponsor (person)
• Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Troy Carter — 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. 36. executive-signature
• 2020-10-21 Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. executive-receipt
• 2020-10-21 Signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2020-10-20 Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2020-10-19 Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays.
• 2020-10-19 Called from the Calendar.
• 2020-10-15 Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
• 2020-10-14 Received from the House with amendments.
• 2020-10-14 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2020-10-12 Scheduled for floor debate on 10/14/20.
• 2020-10-12 Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2020-10-12 Rules suspended.
• 2020-10-12 Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments.
• 2020-10-12 Reported favorably (13-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2020-10-06 Received in the House from the Senate, rules suspended, read by title, referred to the Committee on Education. referral-committee
• 2020-10-05 Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2020-10-01 Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title; ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2020-09-29 Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Education. referral-committee

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3d61c884-9ff0-43be-b843-3b0f7cca2e1a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).