republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024/hb-334.md

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Bill	SCHOOLS: Authorizes school boards to provide for chaplains to serve in public schools as employees or on a volunteer basis (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)	SCHOOLS: Authorizes school boards to provide for chaplains to serve in public schools as employees or on a volunteer basis (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024	HB 334	Louisiana HB 334 (2024)	bill		enacted	Beryl Amedee	9	21	3	2024-02-29	2024-06-19	openstates	ocd-bill/57fa48c6-6cfc-44d0-9f94-813f75518cd0	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246017	0a21fd36366b49bf65aeeb26b567b86d8228a02e8271f9ee807c3c5ac5010ca6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 334 (2024) — SCHOOLS: Authorizes school boards to provide for chaplains to serve in public schools as employees or on a volunteer basis (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)

Version chain

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

1. HB334 Original (filed) — source
2. HB334 Act 688 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB334 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB334 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1646, Horton, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. Senate Committee Amendment, #3587, EDUC, Draft (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Committee Amendment, #3739, EDUC, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #3820, BUREAU, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. HB334 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1576) — 77–18 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#1170) — 30–5 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#391) — 86–6 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Beryl Amedee — primary (person)
• Joseph Orgeron — cosponsor (person)
• Josh Carlson — cosponsor (person)
• Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
• Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
• Laurie Schlegel — cosponsor (person)
• Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Melerine — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-06-19 Effective date: 06/19/2024.
• 2024-06-19 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 688. became-law, executive-signature
• 2024-06-03 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2024-05-31 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2024-05-30 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2024-05-29 Read by title, roll called, yeas 77, nays 18, Senate amendments concurred in.
• 2024-05-28 Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2024.
• 2024-05-28 Received from the Senate with amendments. receipt
• 2024-05-23 Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 30 yeas and 5 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2024-05-21 Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2024-05-20 Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2024-05-16 Reported with amendments. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-16 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-04-15 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2024-04-10 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 86, nays 6. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2024-04-09 Scheduled for floor debate on 04/10/2024.
• 2024-04-08 Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2024-04-04 Reported favorably (13-0). committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-11 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. referral-committee
• 2024-02-29 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. referral-committee
• 2024-02-29 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/57fa48c6-6cfc-44d0-9f94-813f75518cd0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).