republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024/hb-644.md

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Bill	STUDENTS: Authorizes students enrolled in home study programs to participate in public school activities	STUDENTS: Authorizes students enrolled in home study programs to participate in public school activities	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024	HB 644	Louisiana HB 644 (2024)	bill		enacted	Kellee Dickerson	16	21	4	2024-03-01	2024-06-19	openstates	ocd-bill/c618525e-2d14-4207-ae02-3d1ce61ebb8a	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246450	645b4e612dff1c409bfd123f174945815002fb34185ae2aa0c9ecf0e34410fed	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 644 (2024) — STUDENTS: Authorizes students enrolled in home study programs to participate in public school activities

Version chain

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

1. HB644 Original (filed) — source
2. HB644 Act 715 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB644 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB644 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #2118, EDUC, Draft (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #2299, EDUC, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. House Floor Amendment, #2697, Miller, D., Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. House Floor Amendment, #2698, Jordan, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. House Floor Amendment, #2700, Phelps, Rejected (committee substitute) — source
10. Senate Committee Amendment, #3265, EDUC, Draft (committee substitute) — source
11. Senate Committee Amendment, #3291, EDUC, Draft (committee substitute) — source
12. Senate Committee Amendment, #3561, EDUC, Draft (committee substitute) — source
13. Senate Committee Amendment, #3740, EDUC, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
14. Senate Floor Amendment, #4120, Boudreaux, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
15. Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #3924, BUREAU, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
16. HB644 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1581) — 95–0 (pass) · lower
• AMENDMENT # 2700 BY PHELPS, MOTION TO ADOPT (#353) — 31–67 (fail) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#354) — 98–2 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#1172) — 35–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Kellee Dickerson — primary (person)
• Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
• Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
• Dustin Miller — cosponsor (person)
• Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
• Jason Dewitt — cosponsor (person)
• Jay Galle — cosponsor (person)
• Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
• Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
• Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
• Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
• Mark Wright — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
• Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
• Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
• Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)
• Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
• Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-06-19 Effective date: 08/01/2024.
• 2024-06-19 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 715. 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 95, nays 0, 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. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 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
• 2024-04-09 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 2. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2024-04-08 Scheduled for floor debate on 04/09/2024.
• 2024-04-04 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2024-04-03 Reported with amendments (11-0). committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-11 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. referral-committee
• 2024-03-01 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. referral-committee
• 2024-03-01 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c618525e-2d14-4207-ae02-3d1ce61ebb8a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).