republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024/hb-708.md

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Bill	SCHOOLS/CHARTER: Removes requirements that charter schools meet a certain threshold with respect to the number of students with exceptionalities and economically disadvantaged students relative to its total student enrollment	SCHOOLS/CHARTER: Removes requirements that charter schools meet a certain threshold with respect to the number of students with exceptionalities and economically disadvantaged students relative to its total student enrollment	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024	HB 708	Louisiana HB 708 (2024)	bill		enacted	Barbara Reich Freiberg	12	24	5	2024-03-01	2024-06-18	openstates	ocd-bill/030f0036-e61e-4aa7-b7c8-cf0d9a93bbcd	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246559	57ae649d95356d2c5c35071fbe94d1ce9fe7191afc4d4c4638aa4629675f992c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 708 (2024) — SCHOOLS/CHARTER: Removes requirements that charter schools meet a certain threshold with respect to the number of students with exceptionalities and economically disadvantaged students relative to its total student enrollment

Version chain

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

1. HB708 Original (filed) — source
2. HB708 Act 659 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB708 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. House Committee Amendment, #1300, EDUC, Draft (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #1587, EDUC, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. Senate Committee Amendment, #2799, EDUC, Draft (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Committee Amendment, #2929, EDUC, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. Senate Floor Amendment, #3691, Foil, Withdrawn (committee substitute) — source
9. Senate Floor Amendment, #4181, Lambert, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
10. Senate Floor Amendment, #4270, Foil, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
11. Senate Floor Bureau Note, #3215, Talbot, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
12. HB708 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1582) — 89–6 (pass) · lower
• AMENDMENT # 4181 BY LAMBERT, HB 708 BY FREIBERG (#1250) — 22–15 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#1251) — 30–7 (pass) · upper
• SUSPEND THE RULES (#148) — 39–44 (fail) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#149) — 66–33 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Barbara Reich Freiberg — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-06-18 Effective date: 08/01/2024.
• 2024-06-18 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 659. 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 89, nays 6, Senate amendments concurred in.
• 2024-05-28 Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2024.
• 2024-05-28 Received from the Senate with amendments. receipt
• 2024-05-28 Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 30 yeas and 7 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2024-05-28 Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
• 2024-05-16 Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
• 2024-05-16 Rules suspended.
• 2024-05-07 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2024-05-06 Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2024-05-01 Rules suspended. Reported with amendments. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-03 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-04-02 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2024-03-27 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 66, nays 33. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2024-03-25 Scheduled for floor debate on 03/27/2024.
• 2024-03-25 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2024-03-21 Reported with amendments (13-0). 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/030f0036-e61e-4aa7-b7c8-cf0d9a93bbcd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).