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type: "Bill"
title: "SCHOOLS: Creates the Louisiana Giving All True Opportunity to Rise (LA GATOR) Scholarship Program to provide educational savings accounts for parental choice in K-12 education. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
description: "SCHOOLS: Creates the Louisiana Giving All True Opportunity to Rise (LA GATOR) Scholarship Program to provide educational savings accounts for parental choice in K-12 education. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 313"
citation: "Louisiana SB 313 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rick Edmonds"]
version_count: 26
action_count: 29
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/61ee2da2-852c-41a9-a235-a5397c7d2036"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246594"
source_hash: "b363d4ac672223e5b69b8f914d8ae447a08459b74ca5dfaf1ff191953de83105"
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 313 (2024) — SCHOOLS: Creates the Louisiana Giving All True Opportunity to Rise (LA GATOR) Scholarship Program to provide educational savings accounts for parental choice in K-12 education. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **SB313 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352704)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #4805, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1376001)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #4972, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377127)
4. **House Floor Amendment, #5005, Emerson, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377241)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #5203, Bagley, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378889)
6. **SB313 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382521)
7. **SB313 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356368)
8. **SB313 Re-Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375843)
9. **SB313 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371504)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1050, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356272)
11. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1661, FNCE, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363199)
12. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1716, FNCE, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363217)
13. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1718, FNCE, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363391)
14. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2655, FNCE, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369688)
15. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2886, FNCE, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371376)
16. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2981, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371448)
17. **Senate Committee Amendment, #865, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1355344)
18. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3314, Talbot, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1373025)
19. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3317, Jackson-Andrews, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1373045)
20. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3749, Talbot, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375409)
21. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3777, Cathey, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375615)
22. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3787, Jackson-Andrews, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375660)
23. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3793, Jackson-Andrews, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375750)
24. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1098, Miller, G., Proposed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1357000)
25. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #3088, Miller, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372044)
26. **SB313 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380590)
## Votes
- CONCUR (#1355) — **2314** (pass) · upper
- AMENDMENT # 3787 BY JACKSON-ANDREWS, SB 313 BY EDMONDS (#959) — **1623** (fail) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#960) — **2415** (pass) · upper
- AMENDMENT # 5203 BY BAGLEY, MOTION TO ADOPT (#1424) — **3859** (fail) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 3749 BY TALBOT, DIVISION OF THE AMENDMENT (#957) — **1524** (fail) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1425) — **6828** (pass) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 3317 BY JACKSON-ANDREWS, SB 313 BY EDMONDS (#615) — **2018** (pass) · upper
- AMENDMENT # 3749 BY TALBOT, SB 313 BY EDMONDS (#958) — **2514** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Rick Edmonds — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-06-19** Effective date: See Act.
- **2024-06-19** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 1. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-31** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-31** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-05-31** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-30** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 23 yeas and 14 nays.
- **2024-05-30** Called from the Calendar.
- **2024-05-29** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2024-05-28** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-28** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 68, nays 28. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/28/2024.
- **2024-05-23** Read by title, rules suspended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-23** Discharged from the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2024-05-22** Read by title, amended, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2024-05-21** Reported with amendments (8-4). To be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-20** Received in the House from the Senate, rules suspended, read by title, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-16** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 24 yeas and 15 nays; ordered re-reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-16** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2024-05-08** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2024-05-08** Senate floor amendments read and adopted.
- **2024-05-08** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2024-05-08** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2024-05-08** Senate floor amendments read and adopted.
- **2024-05-07** Read by title; Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered reengrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-05-06** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-25** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted; ordered engrossed and recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2024-03-20** Reported with amendments. `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`
- **2024-03-01** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `filing, referral-committee`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/61ee2da2-852c-41a9-a235-a5397c7d2036`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).