republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2025/sb-25.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "SCHOOLS: Constitutional amendment to grant the St. George community school system in East Baton Rouge Parish the same authority granted to parishes to operate a school system. (2/3 - CA13s1(A)) (EN +$2,457,390 GF EX See Note)"
description: "SCHOOLS: Constitutional amendment to grant the St. George community school system in East Baton Rouge Parish the same authority granted to parishes to operate a school system. (2/3 - CA13s1(A)) (EN +$2,457,390 GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 25"
citation: "Louisiana SB 25 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rick Edmonds"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 33
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-03-28"
last_action: "2025-06-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b5a94de6-b368-43c6-9716-5c26ef731e45"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248043"
source_hash: "0c9d498f045a922b928fd927928584535f16c9d72c674dd8b851cc1136ca9245"
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 25 (2025) — SCHOOLS: Constitutional amendment to grant the St. George community school system in East Baton Rouge Parish the same authority granted to parishes to operate a school system. (2/3 - CA13s1(A)) (EN +$2,457,390 GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB25 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1399532)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3750, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419542)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3867, CL&P, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420250)
4. **SB25 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425333)
5. **SB25 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407856)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #722, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407073)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #828, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407794)
8. **SB25 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424742)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#1046) — **70–24** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#198) — **26–5** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR (#934) — **28–9** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Rick Edmonds — primary (person)
- Emily Chenevert — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-13** Effective date: See Act.
- **2025-06-13** Becomes Act No. 218 `became-law`
- **2025-06-12** Sent to the Secretary of State by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/13/2025.
- **2025-06-12** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2025-06-12** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-11** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 28 yeas and 9 nays.
- **2025-06-11** Called from the Calendar.
- **2025-06-11** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2025-06-10** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-09** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 70, nays 24. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-06-09** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-06-09** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2025-06-09** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-06-08** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/09/2025.
- **2025-06-08** Notice given.
- **2025-06-08** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2025-06-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/08/2025.
- **2025-06-04** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-03** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2025-06-02** Reported with amendments (11-2). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-28** Read by title, recommitted to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure.
- **2025-05-27** Reported favorably (15-2). To be recommitted to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-21** Read by title, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2025-05-20** Reported favorably (8-2). To be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-13** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-12** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2025-05-08** Read by title, passed by a vote of 26 yeas and 5 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-07** Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-06** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-28** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted; ordered engrossed and recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2025-04-23** Rules suspended. 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`
- **2025-03-28** 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/b5a94de6-b368-43c6-9716-5c26ef731e45`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).