republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024/sb-313.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	SCHOOLS: Creates the Louisiana Giving All True Opportunity to Rise (LA GATOR) Scholarship Program to provide educational savings accounts for parental choice in K-12 education. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)	SCHOOLS: Creates the Louisiana Giving All True Opportunity to Rise (LA GATOR) Scholarship Program to provide educational savings accounts for parental choice in K-12 education. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024	SB 313	Louisiana SB 313 (2024)	bill		enacted	Rick Edmonds	26	29	8	2024-03-01	2024-06-19	openstates	ocd-bill/61ee2da2-852c-41a9-a235-a5397c7d2036	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246594	b363d4ac672223e5b69b8f914d8ae447a08459b74ca5dfaf1ff191953de83105	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana SB 313 (2024) — SCHOOLS: Creates the Louisiana Giving All True Opportunity to Rise (LA GATOR) Scholarship Program to provide educational savings accounts for parental choice in K-12 education. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

Version chain

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

1. SB313 Original (filed) — source
2. House Committee Amendment, #4805, EDUC, Draft (committee substitute) — source
3. House Committee Amendment, #4972, EDUC, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
4. House Floor Amendment, #5005, Emerson, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
5. House Floor Amendment, #5203, Bagley, Rejected (committee substitute) — source
6. SB313 Act (committee substitute) — source
7. SB313 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
8. SB313 Re-Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
9. SB313 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
10. Senate Committee Amendment, #1050, EDUC, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
11. Senate Committee Amendment, #1661, FNCE, Draft (committee substitute) — source
12. Senate Committee Amendment, #1716, FNCE, Draft (committee substitute) — source
13. Senate Committee Amendment, #1718, FNCE, Draft (committee substitute) — source
14. Senate Committee Amendment, #2655, FNCE, Draft (committee substitute) — source
15. Senate Committee Amendment, #2886, FNCE, Draft (committee substitute) — source
16. Senate Committee Amendment, #2981, FNCE, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
17. Senate Committee Amendment, #865, EDUC, Draft (committee substitute) — source
18. Senate Floor Amendment, #3314, Talbot, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
19. Senate Floor Amendment, #3317, Jackson-Andrews, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
20. Senate Floor Amendment, #3749, Talbot, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
21. Senate Floor Amendment, #3777, Cathey, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
22. Senate Floor Amendment, #3787, Jackson-Andrews, Rejected (committee substitute) — source
23. Senate Floor Amendment, #3793, Jackson-Andrews, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
24. Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1098, Miller, G., Proposed (committee substitute) — source
25. Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #3088, Miller, G., Adopted (committee substitute) — source
26. SB313 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• CONCUR (#1355) — 23–14 (pass) · upper
• AMENDMENT # 3787 BY JACKSON-ANDREWS, SB 313 BY EDMONDS (#959) — 16–23 (fail) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#960) — 24–15 (pass) · upper
• AMENDMENT # 5203 BY BAGLEY, MOTION TO ADOPT (#1424) — 38–59 (fail) · lower
• AMENDMENT # 3749 BY TALBOT, DIVISION OF THE AMENDMENT (#957) — 15–24 (fail) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#1425) — 68–28 (pass) · lower
• AMENDMENT # 3317 BY JACKSON-ANDREWS, SB 313 BY EDMONDS (#615) — 20–18 (pass) · upper
• AMENDMENT # 3749 BY TALBOT, SB 313 BY EDMONDS (#958) — 25–14 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Rick Edmonds — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-06-19 Effective date: See Act.
• 2024-06-19 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 1. became-law, executive-signature
• 2024-05-31 Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. executive-receipt
• 2024-05-31 Signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2024-05-31 Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. enrolled
• 2024-05-30 Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 23 yeas and 14 nays.
• 2024-05-30 Called from the Calendar.
• 2024-05-29 Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
• 2024-05-28 Received from the House with amendments. receipt
• 2024-05-28 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 68, nays 28. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2024-05-23 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/28/2024.
• 2024-05-23 Read by title, rules suspended, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2024-05-23 Discharged from the Committee on Appropriations.
• 2024-05-22 Read by title, amended, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
• 2024-05-21 Reported with amendments (8-4). To be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-05-20 Received in the House from the Senate, rules suspended, read by title, referred to the Committee on Education. referral-committee
• 2024-05-16 Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 24 yeas and 15 nays; ordered re-reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2024-05-16 Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
• 2024-05-08 Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
• 2024-05-08 Senate floor amendments read and adopted.
• 2024-05-08 Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
• 2024-05-08 Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
• 2024-05-08 Senate floor amendments read and adopted.
• 2024-05-07 Read by title; Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered reengrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2024-05-06 Reported with amendments. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-25 Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted; ordered engrossed and recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
• 2024-03-20 Reported with amendments. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-11 Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Education. referral-committee
• 2024-03-01 Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. filing, referral-committee

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/61ee2da2-852c-41a9-a235-a5397c7d2036. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).