republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2023/sb-205.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: Creates the Louisiana Foundational Integrated Research System for Transformation (LA FIRST). (gov sig) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)	INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: Creates the Louisiana Foundational Integrated Research System for Transformation (LA FIRST). (gov sig) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2023	SB 205	Louisiana SB 205 (2023)	bill		enacted	Patrick Page Cortez	15	22	3	2023-03-31	2023-06-14	openstates	ocd-bill/47b6b436-76d8-4270-9460-83c3ec5788e7	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244629	4d9d8792f012fd5a055d4351ff3643303dfa1053623d9177d34245240d1b8546	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana SB 205 (2023) — INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: Creates the Louisiana Foundational Integrated Research System for Transformation (LA FIRST). (gov sig) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

Version chain

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

1. SB205 Original (filed) — source
2. House Committee Amendment, #2980, EDUC, Draft (committee substitute) — source
3. House Committee Amendment, #3019, EDUC, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
4. House Committee Amendment, #3659, APP, Draft (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #3758, APP, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. SB205 Act (committee substitute) — source
7. SB205 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
8. SB205 Re-Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
9. SB205 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
10. Senate Committee Amendment, #1001, EDUC, Draft (committee substitute) — source
11. Senate Committee Amendment, #1034, EDUC, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
12. Senate Committee Amendment, #1458, FNCE, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
13. Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1076, Mills, Fred, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
14. Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1501, Mills, Fred, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
15. SB205 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• CONCUR (#918) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#275) — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#977) — 98–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Patrick Page Cortez — primary (person)
• Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
• Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
• Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
• Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
• Gregory Tarver — cosponsor (person)
• Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)
• Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
• Mack Bodi White, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person)
• Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
• Robert Mills — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-06-14 Effective date: See Act.
• 2023-06-14 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 394. became-law, executive-signature
• 2023-06-08 Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. executive-receipt
• 2023-06-07 Signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2023-06-07 Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. enrolled
• 2023-06-06 Rules suspended. Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays.
• 2023-06-05 Received from the House with amendments. receipt
• 2023-06-05 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2023-06-04 Scheduled for floor debate on 06/05/2023.
• 2023-06-01 Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2023-05-31 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
• 2023-05-30 Reported with amendments (16-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-17 Read by title, amended, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
• 2023-05-16 Reported with amendments (7-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations. committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-15 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. referral-committee
• 2023-05-11 Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
• 2023-05-10 Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays; ordered re--reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2023-05-09 Read by title; Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered reengrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2023-05-08 Reported with amendments. committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-01 Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title; recommitted to the Committee on Finance. committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-10 Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Education. referral-committee
• 2023-03-31 Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. filing, referral-committee

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/47b6b436-76d8-4270-9460-83c3ec5788e7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).