republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024/sb-251.md

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Bill	CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES: Provides relative to educational programs provided by correctional facilities. (gov sig) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)	CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES: Provides relative to educational programs provided by correctional facilities. (gov sig) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024	SB 251	Louisiana SB 251 (2024)	bill		enacted	Regina Ashford Barrow	7	21	4	2024-03-01	2024-05-23	openstates	ocd-bill/cd7ea5d5-f56c-4051-b4ee-b6d842e98fa5	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246499	ba2e972f5fd6cb58ed30249c1a52580cfa5dc2c45af27c6bd417ea337136d1d7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana SB 251 (2024) — CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES: Provides relative to educational programs provided by correctional facilities. (gov sig) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

Version chain

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

1. SB251 Original (filed) — source
2. House Floor Amendment, #3791, Bacala, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
3. House Floor Amendment, #4145, LaFleur, Withdrawn (committee substitute) — source
4. House Floor Amendment, #4641, Jordan, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
5. SB251 Act (committee substitute) — source
6. SB251 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
7. SB251 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• CONCUR (#778) — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#1068) — 93–0 (pass) · lower
• CO-AUTHORS (#185) — 11–0 (fail) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#184) — 32–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Regina Ashford Barrow — primary (person)
• Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
• Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
• Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
• Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
• Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
• Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
• Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
• Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
• Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
• Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
• Gregory A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
• Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
• Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
• Jeremy Stine — cosponsor (person)
• Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
• Katrina Jackson-Andrews — cosponsor (person)
• Mandie Landry — cosponsor (person)
• Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
• Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
• Shaun Mena — cosponsor (person)
• Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
• Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-05-23 Effective date 5/23/2024.
• 2024-05-23 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 168. became-law, executive-signature
• 2024-05-16 Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. executive-receipt
• 2024-05-16 Signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2024-05-16 Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. enrolled
• 2024-05-15 Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
• 2024-05-14 Received from the House with amendments. receipt
• 2024-05-14 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2024-05-14 Called from the calendar.
• 2024-05-14 Read by title, returned to the calendar.
• 2024-05-13 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/14/2024.
• 2024-04-29 Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2024-04-25 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
• 2024-04-24 Reported favorably (8-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-03 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. referral-committee
• 2024-04-02 Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
• 2024-04-02 Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2024-03-27 Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2024-03-26 Reported favorably. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-11 Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. referral-committee
• 2024-03-01 Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. filing, referral-committee

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cd7ea5d5-f56c-4051-b4ee-b6d842e98fa5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).