republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024/hb-8.md

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Bill	SCHOOLS/HIGH SCHOOL: Prohibits the use of an appeals process for certain students who fail to pass state-administered tests required for high school graduation	SCHOOLS/HIGH SCHOOL: Prohibits the use of an appeals process for certain students who fail to pass state-administered tests required for high school graduation	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024	HB 8	Louisiana HB 8 (2024)	bill		enacted	Michael Melerine	4	20	2	2024-01-17	2024-05-23	openstates	ocd-bill/33614526-c672-4f4b-af38-2d91e90b4b5b	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245522	893e6f8a7ef303e7d6fab52879295d0f435b9bc0d57de839d0ea573b2c5b1fca	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 8 (2024) — SCHOOLS/HIGH SCHOOL: Prohibits the use of an appeals process for certain students who fail to pass state-administered tests required for high school graduation

Version chain

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

1. HB8 Original (filed) — source
2. HB8 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. HB8 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB8 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#94) — 83–20 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#904) — 24–10 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Michael Melerine — primary (person)
• Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-05-23 Effective date: 08/01/2024.
• 2024-05-23 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 247. became-law, executive-signature
• 2024-05-21 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2024-05-20 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2024-05-20 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2024-05-20 Received from the Senate without amendments. receipt
• 2024-05-16 Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 24 yeas and 10 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2024-05-07 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2024-05-06 Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2024-05-01 Rules suspended. Reported favorably. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-27 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-03-26 Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2024-03-26 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 83, nays 20. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2024-03-25 Scheduled for floor debate on 03/26/2024.
• 2024-03-25 Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2024-03-21 Reported favorably (10-3). committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-11 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. referral-committee
• 2024-01-19 First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 1/19/2024.
• 2024-01-17 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. referral-committee
• 2024-01-17 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/33614526-c672-4f4b-af38-2d91e90b4b5b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).