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type: "Bill"
title: "STUDENT/ASSESSMENT: Exempts students who attain certain scores on the English and math sections of the ACT from end-of-course testing and allows career diploma students to take WorkKeys or the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery in lieu of the ACT"
description: "STUDENT/ASSESSMENT: Exempts students who attain certain scores on the English and math sections of the ACT from end-of-course testing and allows career diploma students to take WorkKeys or the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery in lieu of the ACT"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 762"
citation: "Louisiana HB 762 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Bamburg Jr."]
version_count: 17
action_count: 39
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-03-21"
last_action: "2024-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/37d6430c-f1e6-404e-b5d1-1369a6371068"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246830"
source_hash: "c839c7d6d408be93d79f605b7079ccdff0384f4dff880a395a50b84991f9d6e6"
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 762 (2024) — STUDENT/ASSESSMENT: Exempts students who attain certain scores on the English and math sections of the ACT from end-of-course testing and allows career diploma students to take WorkKeys or the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery in lieu of the ACT
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **HB762 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356788)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #5380, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381693)
3. **HB762 Act 635** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382364)
4. **HB762 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370541)
5. **HB762 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1373029)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #3024, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365564)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #3908, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369988)
8. **House Committee Amendment, #3937, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370533)
9. **House Floor Amendment, #4036, Bamburg, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370886)
10. **House Floor Amendment, #4222, Bamburg, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371886)
11. **House Floor Amendment, #4283, Owen, Charles, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372306)
12. **House Floor Amendment, #4357, Owen, Charles, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372805)
13. **Senate Committee Amendment, #4087, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377604)
14. **Senate Committee Amendment, #4413, S&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380748)
15. **Senate Floor Amendment, #4428, Jackson-Andrews, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380920)
16. **Senate Floor Amendment, #4434, Jackson-Andrews, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381011)
17. **HB762 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381766)
## Votes
- AMENDMENT # 4357 BY OWEN, MOTION TO ADOPT (#926) — **6530** (pass) · lower
- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1727) — **990** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1428) — **315** (pass) · upper
- ADOPT (#1491) — **324** (pass) · upper
- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1777) — **5546** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#935) — **951** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Dennis Bamburg Jr. — primary (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
- Brach Myers — cosponsor (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Jacob Landry — cosponsor (person)
- John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
- Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 635. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-03** Signed by the President of the Senate on 6/4/2024.
- **2024-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-06-03** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2024-06-03** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 32 yeas and 4 nays.
- **2024-06-03** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2024-06-03** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 55, nays 46. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2024-06-03** Rules suspended.
- **2024-06-03** Conference Committee report received.
- **2024-06-03** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2024-06-03** Senate conference committee members appointed: Jackson-Andrews, Bass, and Lambert.
- **2024-06-02** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2024-06-02** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
- **2024-05-31** House conferees appointed: Bamburg, Schlegel, and Beaullieu.
- **2024-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 99, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
- **2024-05-31** Rules suspended.
- **2024-05-31** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-31** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 31 yeas and 5 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-31** Rules suspended.
- **2024-05-31** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-31** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-30** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs.
- **2024-05-30** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
- **2024-05-14** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-13** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-05-08** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-08** Called from the calendar.
- **2024-05-08** Read by title, amended, returned to the calendar.
- **2024-05-08** Called from the calendar.
- **2024-05-07** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/08/2024.
- **2024-05-07** Notice given.
- **2024-05-06** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2024-05-01** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/06/2024.
- **2024-05-01** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-30** Reported with amendments (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-25** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-21** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/37d6430c-f1e6-404e-b5d1-1369a6371068`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).