republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2025/sb-71.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "FUNDS/FUNDING: Provides relative to the administration of the Louisiana Charter School Start-Up Loan Fund and expands the authorized uses of the fund. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX)"
description: "FUNDS/FUNDING: Provides relative to the administration of the Louisiana Charter School Start-Up Loan Fund and expands the authorized uses of the fund. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 71"
citation: "Louisiana SB 71 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Franklin J. Foil"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-04-02"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/463a50e6-db9f-4a07-8e1a-d90cc78edf57"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248227"
source_hash: "c83ff75445703b3819b099431babd05ac8c6475a13ee67bf606b075e314afa4a"
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 SB 71 (2025) — FUNDS/FUNDING: Provides relative to the administration of the Louisiana Charter School Start-Up Loan Fund and expands the authorized uses of the fund. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB71 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1401972)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3451, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417846)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3501, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418203)
4. **SB71 Act 413** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425971)
5. **SB71 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406966)
6. **SB71 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412612)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #614, FNCE, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406376)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #668, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406720)
9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1240, Foil, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411066)
10. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #930, Foil, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408726)
11. **SB71 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1423776)

## Votes

- CONCUR (#850) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#191) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#834) — **96–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Franklin J. Foil — primary (person)
- Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
- Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
- Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
- Jeremy Stine — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-20** Effective date 6/20/2025.
- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 413. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-11** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-10** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2025-06-10** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-09** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2025-06-04** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-03** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 1. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-06-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/03/2025.
- **2025-05-29** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2025-05-27** Reported with amendments (16-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-08** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2025-05-07** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-07** Called from the Calendar.
- **2025-04-28** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2025-04-23** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2025-04-22** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Finance. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Finance. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/463a50e6-db9f-4a07-8e1a-d90cc78edf57`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).