republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2023/hb-8.md

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Bill	SCHOOLS: Requires display of the national motto, "In God We Trust", in every public elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education classroom	SCHOOLS: Requires display of the national motto, "In God We Trust", in every public elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education classroom	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2023	HB 8	Louisiana HB 8 (2023)	bill		enacted	Dodie Horton	14	22	5	2023-01-12	2023-06-09	openstates	ocd-bill/0627cfe7-bbb1-49e1-9e25-8fdcc20672ec	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=243813	f13b560433b38042ffe34d7d384197674a05d5dd4d43e51e5012a10065288f70	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 8 (2023) — SCHOOLS: Requires display of the national motto, "In God We Trust", in every public elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education classroom

Version chain

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

1. HB8 Original (filed) — source
2. HB8 Act 264 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB8 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB8 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #1908, EDUC, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #286, EDUC, Draft (committee substitute) — source
7. House Floor Amendment, #2445, Ivey, Withdrawn (committee substitute) — source
8. House Floor Amendment, #2495, Ivey, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. House Floor Amendment, #2497, Ivey, Rejected (committee substitute) — source
10. Senate Committee Amendment, #1917, EDUC, Draft (committee substitute) — source
11. Senate Committee Amendment, #1923, EDUC, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
12. Senate Floor Amendment, #2218, Peacock, Withdrawn (committee substitute) — source
13. Senate Floor Amendment, #2801, Barrow, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
14. HB8 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#742) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• AMENDMENT # 2497 BY IVEY, MOTION TO ADOPT (#240) — 22–77 (fail) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#241) — 98–4 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1045) — 100–0 (pass) · lower
• CO-AUTHORS (#743) — 20–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Dodie Horton — primary (person)
• Barrow Peacock — cosponsor (person)
• Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
• Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
• Eddie Lambert — cosponsor (person)
• Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
• Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
• Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
• Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
• Jeremy Stine — cosponsor (person)
• Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
• Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
• Louie Bernard — cosponsor (person)
• Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person)
• Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick Connick — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)
• Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
• Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
• Robert Mills — cosponsor (person)
• Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)
• Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Tony Bacala — 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. 264. became-law, executive-signature
• 2023-06-08 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2023-06-07 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2023-06-07 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2023-06-06 Read by title, roll called, yeas 100, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
• 2023-06-05 Scheduled for concurrence on 06/06/2023.
• 2023-06-05 Received from the Senate with amendments. receipt
• 2023-06-04 Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 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 Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2023-05-18 Reported with amendments. committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-10 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-05-09 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2023-05-08 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 4. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2023-05-04 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/08/2023.
• 2023-04-27 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2023-04-26 Reported with amendments (12-0). committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-10 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. referral-committee
• 2023-02-03 First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/3/2023.
• 2023-01-12 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. referral-committee
• 2023-01-12 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0627cfe7-bbb1-49e1-9e25-8fdcc20672ec. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).