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type: "Bill"
title: "TAX CREDITS: Authorizes university laboratory schools to participate in the student tuition organization tax credit program (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV See Note)"
description: "TAX CREDITS: Authorizes university laboratory schools to participate in the student tuition organization tax credit program (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 477"
citation: "Louisiana HB 477 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara Reich Freiberg"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-04-04"
last_action: "2025-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/88376d73-23a8-4783-a0f9-9d0c2f76b9cc"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248509"
source_hash: "8667a4af053da5b3976d4ca703cf61dd4a5ad4ccf87057d73eaeefc80cccdf76"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
---
# Louisiana HB 477 (2025) — TAX CREDITS: Authorizes university laboratory schools to participate in the student tuition organization tax credit program (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV See Note)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **HB477 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1403987)
2. **HB477 Act 282** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425596)
3. **HB477 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411024)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2172, R&F, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417707)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2204, R&F, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417836)
6. **HB477 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422039)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#547) — **371** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#869) — **960** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#305) — **980** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Barbara Reich Freiberg — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-06-11** Effective date: 01/01/2026.
- **2025-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 282. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-04** Read by title, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2025-06-03** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/04/2025.
- **2025-06-02** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-02** The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-29** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-28** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-27** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-12** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-08** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-08** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/08/2025.
- **2025-05-06** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-05** Reported favorably (13-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Prefiled. `filing`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/88376d73-23a8-4783-a0f9-9d0c2f76b9cc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).