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Bill CURRICULA: Authorizes public high schools to offer a course of instruction in the history and literature of the Bible (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note) CURRICULA: Authorizes public high schools to offer a course of instruction in the history and literature of the Bible (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note) us/states/la Louisiana Legislature 2023 HB 68 Louisiana HB 68 (2023)
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Louisiana HB 68 (2023) — CURRICULA: Authorizes public high schools to offer a course of instruction in the history and literature of the Bible (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)

Version chain

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

  1. HB68 Original (filed) — source
  2. HB68 Act 215 (committee substitute) — source
  3. HB68 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
  4. HB68 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

  • FINAL PASSAGE (#744) — 360 (pass) · upper
  • FINAL PASSAGE (#182) — 8710 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Valarie Hodges — primary (person)
  • Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
  • Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
  • Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
  • Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
  • Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
  • Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
  • Daryl Deshotel — cosponsor (person)
  • Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
  • Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
  • Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
  • Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
  • Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
  • Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
  • Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
  • Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
  • Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
  • R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
  • Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
  • Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
  • Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
  • Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
  • Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2023-06-08 Effective date: 08/01/2023.
  • 2023-06-08 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 215. 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
  • 2023-06-05 Received from the Senate without amendments. receipt
  • 2023-06-04 Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
  • 2023-05-23 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
  • 2023-05-22 Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
  • 2023-05-18 Reported favorably. committee-passage-favorable
  • 2023-05-03 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. reading-2, referral-committee
  • 2023-05-02 Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
  • 2023-05-02 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 87, nays 10. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
  • 2023-04-26 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/02/2023.
  • 2023-04-26 Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
  • 2023-04-25 Reported favorably (7-4). committee-passage-favorable
  • 2023-04-10 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. referral-committee
  • 2023-03-10 First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/10/2023.
  • 2023-03-06 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. referral-committee
  • 2023-03-06 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3cc3892b-8850-4ffa-80e7-47dc8dc28d1f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).