republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024/hb-728.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	HIGHER EDUCATION: Provides relative to initial eligibility requirements for the M.J. Foster Promise Program (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX)	HIGHER EDUCATION: Provides relative to initial eligibility requirements for the M.J. Foster Promise Program (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024	HB 728	Louisiana HB 728 (2024)	bill		enacted	Paula Davis	7	29	3	2024-03-11	2024-06-11	openstates	ocd-bill/b5c6b531-7eaa-4d6f-8978-d909aa118764	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246702	670bf13796e24127cdfa3b402662075e62352f8f55191bce0df00b2a747b0289	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 728 (2024) — HIGHER EDUCATION: Provides relative to initial eligibility requirements for the M.J. Foster Promise Program (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX)

Version chain

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

1. HB728 Original (filed) — source
2. HB728 Act 633 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB728 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate Committee Amendment, #3266, EDUC, Draft (committee substitute) — source
5. Senate Committee Amendment, #3659, EDUC, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. Senate Floor Amendment, #4276, Foil, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. HB728 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1664) — 93–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#1313) — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#427) — 98–4 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Paula Davis — primary (person)
• Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
• Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
• Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
• Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
• Jeremy LaCombe — cosponsor (person)
• Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
• Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
• Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
• Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
• Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
• Vincent J. St. Blanc , III — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-06-11 Effective date: 6/11/2024.
• 2024-06-11 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 633. became-law, executive-signature
• 2024-06-04 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2024-06-02 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2024-05-31 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2024-05-30 Read by title, roll called, yeas 93, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
• 2024-05-30 Scheduled for concurrence on 05/30/2024.
• 2024-05-30 Rules suspended.
• 2024-05-30 Received from the Senate with amendments. receipt
• 2024-05-29 Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2024-05-28 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2024-05-28 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2024-05-28 Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2024-05-28 Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
• 2024-05-20 Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
• 2024-05-20 Senate Committee amendments read and adopted.
• 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, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 4. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2024-04-10 Called from the calendar.
• 2024-04-09 Scheduled for floor debate on 04/10/2024.
• 2024-04-09 Notice given.
• 2024-04-04 Read by title, returned to the calendar.
• 2024-04-03 Scheduled for floor debate on 04/04/2024.
• 2024-04-02 Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2024-03-27 Reported favorably (14-0). committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-12 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. referral-committee
• 2024-03-11 Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b5c6b531-7eaa-4d6f-8978-d909aa118764. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).