republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2025/sb-207.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "SECONDARY EDUCATION: Requires all public high school students to have access to available vocational and technical courses. (8/1/25) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
description: "SECONDARY EDUCATION: Requires all public high school students to have access to available vocational and technical courses. (8/1/25) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 207"
citation: "Louisiana SB 207 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gary Carter"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-04-04"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/290dc796-18ff-4788-8905-fd33e4922726"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248716"
source_hash: "8ed1ffe5bf15c796956649860e822411baac1d5f57c88449731a8a947eb7622f"
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 207 (2025) — SECONDARY EDUCATION: Requires all public high school students to have access to available vocational and technical courses. (8/1/25) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB207 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1404645)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3637, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418841)
3. **House Floor Amendment, #4035, Schlegel, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421296)
4. **SB207 Act 449** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1426057)
5. **SB207 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412918)
6. **SB207 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416695)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1423, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412739)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1448, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412820)
9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2020, Carter, Gary, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416586)
10. **SB207 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424101)

## Votes

- CONCUR (#880) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#287) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#852) — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gary Carter — primary (person)
- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Josh Carlson — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson-Andrews — cosponsor (person)
- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
- Rashid Young — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Terry Landry Jr — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-20** Effective date 8/1/2025.
- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 449. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-11** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-11** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2025-06-11** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-10** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2025-06-08** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-03** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-06-03** Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
- **2025-06-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/03/2025.
- **2025-06-02** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-29** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2025-05-28** Reported with amendments (8-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-22** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-21** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2025-05-20** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-19** Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-19** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
- **2025-05-12** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted; ordered engrossed and recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2025-05-08** 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 Education. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** 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/290dc796-18ff-4788-8905-fd33e4922726`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).