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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.
- HB68 Original (filed) — source
- HB68 Act 215 (committee substitute) — source
- HB68 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
- HB68 Enrolled (enrolled) — source
Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#744) — 36–0 (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#182) — 87–10 (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).