republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024/sb-72.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	STUDENTS: Exempts students with dyslexia from certain literacy examinations and provides for alternative progress monitoring tests. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)	STUDENTS: Exempts students with dyslexia from certain literacy examinations and provides for alternative progress monitoring tests. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024	SB 72	Louisiana SB 72 (2024)	bill		enacted	Thomas Pressly	8	21	3	2024-02-28	2024-06-10	openstates	ocd-bill/ecb17c44-c434-4bd2-802f-2f1d3f05854a	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245901	d6de6afd51ff108fec2b08151f397e2cfd5d1c4de94ae09c03722a44f5528a83	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana SB 72 (2024) — STUDENTS: Exempts students with dyslexia from certain literacy examinations and provides for alternative progress monitoring tests. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)

Version chain

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

1. SB72 Original (filed) — source
2. House Committee Amendment, #4538, EDUC, Draft (committee substitute) — source
3. House Committee Amendment, #4615, EDUC, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
4. SB72 Act 499 (committee substitute) — source
5. SB72 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
6. SB72 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Floor Amendment, #1748, Pressly, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. SB72 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#1289) — 93–0 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR (#1199) — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#412) — 36–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Thomas Pressly — primary (person)
• Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
• Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
• C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
• Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
• Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
• Laurie Schlegel — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
• Rashid Young — cosponsor (person)
• Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
• Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-06-10 Effective date 6/10/2024.
• 2024-06-10 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 499. became-law, executive-signature
• 2024-05-31 Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. executive-receipt
• 2024-05-30 Signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2024-05-29 Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. enrolled
• 2024-05-28 Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
• 2024-05-22 Received from the House with amendments. receipt
• 2024-05-22 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2024-05-20 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/2024.
• 2024-05-20 Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2024-05-15 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
• 2024-05-14 Reported with amendments (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-29 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. referral-committee
• 2024-04-25 Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
• 2024-04-24 Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2024-04-24 Called from the Calendar.
• 2024-04-08 Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
• 2024-04-02 Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2024-03-27 Rules suspended. 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
• 2024-02-28 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/ecb17c44-c434-4bd2-802f-2f1d3f05854a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).