republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2023/hb-485.md

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Bill	STUDENT/LOANS-SCHOLARSHP: Creates the Louisiana National Guard Patriot Scholarship Program to cover the cost of mandatory fees for members attending La. public postsecondary education institutions (EG INCREASE GF EX See Note)	STUDENT/LOANS-SCHOLARSHP: Creates the Louisiana National Guard Patriot Scholarship Program to cover the cost of mandatory fees for members attending La. public postsecondary education institutions (EG INCREASE GF EX See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2023	HB 485	Louisiana HB 485 (2023)	bill		enacted	Ken Brass	4	24	2	2023-03-31	2023-06-09	openstates	ocd-bill/34562bb0-b81b-446a-a188-db2234c510f8	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244452	649a797e446ac93472c40f084e64ca940c2a61ff2e9089c3c5cd36ca82be11fb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 485 (2023) — STUDENT/LOANS-SCHOLARSHP: Creates the Louisiana National Guard Patriot Scholarship Program to cover the cost of mandatory fees for members attending La. public postsecondary education institutions (EG INCREASE GF EX See Note)

Version chain

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

1. HB485 Original (filed) — source
2. HB485 Act 279 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB485 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB485 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#477) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#685) — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ken Brass — primary (person)
• Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
• Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
• Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
• Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
• Beau Beaullieu — cosponsor (person)
• Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
• Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
• Brett Geymann — cosponsor (person)
• Chad Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
• Clay Schexnayder — cosponsor (person)
• Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
• Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
• Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
• Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
• Dustin Miller — cosponsor (person)
• Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
• Gregory A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
• Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
• Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
• Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
• Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
• Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
• Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
• Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
• Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
• Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
• Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
• Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person)
• Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
• R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
• Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
• Robert Mills — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
• Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
• Tammy Phelps — cosponsor (person)
• Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
• Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-06-09 Effective date: 08/01/2023.
• 2023-06-09 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 279. became-law, executive-signature
• 2023-06-07 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2023-06-06 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2023-06-05 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2023-06-04 Received from the Senate without amendments. receipt
• 2023-06-04 Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2023-06-02 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2023-06-01 Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2023-05-31 Reported favorably. committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-26 Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
• 2023-05-25 Reported favorably. committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-18 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-05-17 Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2023-05-17 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2023-05-11 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/17/2023.
• 2023-05-09 Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2023-05-08 Reported favorably (18-0). committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-24 Read by title, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
• 2023-04-20 Reported favorably (11-0). committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-10 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. referral-committee
• 2023-04-03 First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
• 2023-03-31 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. referral-committee
• 2023-03-31 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/34562bb0-b81b-446a-a188-db2234c510f8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).