republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024/hb-566.md

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Bill	STATE EMPLOYEES: Provides for educational criteria for state employees	STATE EMPLOYEES: Provides for educational criteria for state employees	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024	HB 566	Louisiana HB 566 (2024)	bill		enacted	Dixon McMakin	11	21	3	2024-03-01	2024-06-18	openstates	ocd-bill/d9024030-a087-48af-9fcf-65c37430d420	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246324	95d1b92e71bf01349d5978bb8c69197c38cefbe0bfbb0880450bdd42f8cc9056	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 566 (2024) — STATE EMPLOYEES: Provides for educational criteria for state employees

Version chain

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

1. HB566 Original (filed) — source
2. HB566 Act 655 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB566 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB566 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #2218, H&G, Draft (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #2399, H&G, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. House Floor Amendment, #2703, McMakin, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. Senate Committee Amendment, #3530, S&G, Draft (committee substitute) — source
9. Senate Committee Amendment, #3649, S&G, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
10. Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #3802, BUREAU, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
11. HB566 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#397) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#1114) — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1547) — 94–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dixon McMakin — primary (person)
• Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
• Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
• Chad Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
• Foy Gadberry — cosponsor (person)
• John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
• Les Farnum — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
• Paula Davis — cosponsor (person)
• Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
• Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-06-18 Effective date: 01/01/2025.
• 2024-06-18 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 655. 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 94, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
• 2024-05-22 Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2024.
• 2024-05-22 Received from the Senate with amendments. receipt
• 2024-05-22 Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2024-05-20 Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2024-05-16 Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2024-05-15 Reported with amendments. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-16 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. 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 98, nays 0. 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, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2024-04-04 Reported with amendments (15-0). committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-11 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. referral-committee
• 2024-03-01 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. referral-committee
• 2024-03-01 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d9024030-a087-48af-9fcf-65c37430d420. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).