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---
type: "Bill"
title: "COLLEGES/UNIVERSITIES: Provides for the designation of a postsecondary education institution as a \"Purple Star Campus\" (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "COLLEGES/UNIVERSITIES: Provides for the designation of a postsecondary education institution as a \"Purple Star Campus\" (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 54"
citation: "Louisiana HB 54 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dodie Horton"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-03-11"
last_action: "2025-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cfcbd9ab-8f19-441a-bc68-77ac6bccc957"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247940"
source_hash: "34233ab357d860565d0b6c156f1fbfc40b5f637a710da1b0c5b85c855ae9e2f8"
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 54 (2025) — COLLEGES/UNIVERSITIES: Provides for the designation of a postsecondary education institution as a "Purple Star Campus" (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **HB54 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1396263)
2. **HB54 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425021)
3. **HB54 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409666)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1700, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414522)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1769, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414933)
6. **HB54 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419745)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#378) — **360** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#233) — **970** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#703) — **920** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Dodie Horton — primary (person)
- Katrina Jackson-Andrews — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
- Robert "Bob" Owen — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-06-08** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 130. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-02** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-05-29** Read by title, roll called, yeas 92, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2025-05-28** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2025.
- **2025-05-27** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-05-27** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-19** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-14** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-07** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-06** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-06** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-05** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/06/2025.
- **2025-04-30** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-29** Reported favorably (10-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-14** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/14/2025.
- **2025-03-11** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-11** Prefiled. `filing`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cfcbd9ab-8f19-441a-bc68-77ac6bccc957`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).