republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024/sb-56.md

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Bill	STUDENTS: Provides for the administration of medication to students by certain practitioners. (gov sig)	STUDENTS: Provides for the administration of medication to students by certain practitioners. (gov sig)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024	SB 56	Louisiana SB 56 (2024)	bill		enacted	William "Bill" Wheat , Jr.	7	19	3	2024-02-26	2024-05-23	openstates	ocd-bill/594098df-21ec-46ab-919d-379c4f991e1f	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245829	b3d4cd67b61c0d680d97841311c9203260177126c78ea9c4c8c56501b92e1502	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana SB 56 (2024) — STUDENTS: Provides for the administration of medication to students by certain practitioners. (gov sig)

Version chain

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

1. SB56 Original (filed) — source
2. House Committee Amendment, #3494, EDUC, Draft (committee substitute) — source
3. House Committee Amendment, #3697, EDUC, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
4. House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2595, BUREAU, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
5. SB56 Act (committee substitute) — source
6. SB56 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
7. SB56 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• CONCUR (#768) — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#81) — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#1043) — 96–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• William "Bill" Wheat , Jr. — primary (person)
• Sylvia Taylor — 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. 161. 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, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2024-05-13 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/14/2024.
• 2024-04-29 Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2024-04-25 Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments.
• 2024-04-24 Reported with amendments (9-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-25 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. referral-committee
• 2024-03-21 Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
• 2024-03-20 Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2024-03-19 Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2024-03-18 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 Education. referral-committee
• 2024-02-26 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/594098df-21ec-46ab-919d-379c4f991e1f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).