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                        IntroducedMar 01, 2024
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                        Passed HouseMar 27, 2024
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                        Passed SenateMay 28, 2024
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                        Signed into LawJun 18, 2024
 
                    
                    
                    SCHOOLS/CHARTER: Removes requirements that charter schools meet a certain threshold with respect to the number of students with exceptionalities and economically disadvantaged students relative to its total student enrollment
                
                
            
        Last Action See all actions
                         House • Jun 18, 2024: Effective date: 08/01/2024.
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            Summary/Bill Text
Comments on HB 708
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                Votes
                        YES: 66
                                                
                                        - Mr. Speaker
 - Echols
 - McMakin
 - Amedee
 - Edmonston
 - Melerine
 - Bamburg
 - Egan
 - Muscarello
 - Bayham
 - Emerson
 - Myers
 - Beaullieu
 - Farnum
 - Orgeron
 - Berault
 - Firment
 - Owen
 - Billings
 - Fontenot
 - Romero
 - Bourriaque
 - Freeman
 - Schamerhorn
 - Boyer
 - Freiberg
 - Schlegel
 - Braud
 - Gadberry
 - Selders
 - Carlson
 - Galle
 - St. Blanc
 - Carrier
 - Glorioso
 - Stagni
 - Carver
 - Hebert
 - Tarver
 - Chenevert
 - Henry
 - Thomas
 - Coates
 - Horton
 - Thompson
 - Cox
 - Illg
 - Turner
 - Crews
 - Johnson, T.
 - Ventrella
 - Davis
 - Kerner
 - Villio
 - Deshotel
 - LaFleur
 - Wilder
 - Dewitt
 - Landry, J.
 - Wright
 - Dickerson
 - McCormick
 - Wyble
 - Domangue
 - McMahen
 - Zeringue
 
NO: 33
                                            YES: 89
                                                
                                        - Adams
 - Edmonston
 - McMakin
 - Amedee
 - Egan
 - Melerine
 - Bacala
 - Emerson
 - Mena
 - Bagley
 - Farnum
 - Muscarello
 - Bamburg
 - Firment
 - Myers
 - Bayham
 - Fisher
 - Newell
 - Beaullieu
 - Fontenot
 - Orgeron
 - Berault
 - Freeman
 - Owen
 - Billings
 - Freiberg
 - Riser
 - Bourriaque
 - Gadberry
 - Romero
 - Boyd
 - Galle
 - Schamerhorn
 - Boyer
 - Geymann
 - Schlegel
 - Brass
 - Glorioso
 - Selders
 - Braud
 - Green
 - St. Blanc
 - Brown
 - Hebert
 - Stagni
 - Bryant
 - Henry
 - Tarver
 - Carlson
 - Horton
 - Taylor
 - Carrier
 - Illg
 - Thomas
 - Carter, R.
 - Jackson
 - Thompson
 - Carter, W.
 - Johnson, M.
 - Turner
 - Carver
 - Kerner
 - Ventrella
 - Chenevert
 - Knox
 - Villio
 - Cox
 - LaCombe
 - Walters
 - Crews
 - Landry, J.
 - Wilder
 - Davis
 - Landry, M.
 - Wiley
 - Deshotel
 - Larvadain
 - Wright
 - Dewitt
 - Lyons
 - Wyble
 - Dickerson
 - McCormick
 - Young
 - Domangue
 - McFarland
 - Zeringue
 - Echols
 - McMahen
 
Actions
            - Jun 18, 2024 | House
- Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 659.
 - Effective date: 08/01/2024.
 
 - Jun 03, 2024 | House
- Sent to the Governor for executive approval.
 
 - May 31, 2024 | Senate
- Signed by the President of the Senate.
 
 - May 30, 2024 | House
- Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
 
 - May 29, 2024 | House
- Read by title, roll called, yeas 89, nays 6, Senate amendments concurred in.
 
 - May 28, 2024 | House
- Received from the Senate with amendments.
 - Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2024.
 
 - May 28, 2024 | Senate
- Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
 - Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 30 yeas and 7 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
 
 - May 16, 2024 | Senate
- Rules suspended.
 - Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
 
 - May 07, 2024 | Senate
- Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
 
 - May 06, 2024 | Senate
- Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
 
 - May 01, 2024 | Senate
- Rules suspended. Reported with amendments.
 
 - Apr 03, 2024 | Senate
- Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education.
 
 - Apr 02, 2024 | Senate
- Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
 
 - Mar 27, 2024 | House
- Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 66, nays 33. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
 
 - Mar 25, 2024 | House
- Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
 - Scheduled for floor debate on 03/27/2024.
 
 - Mar 21, 2024 | House
- Reported with amendments (13-0).
 
 - Mar 11, 2024 | House
- Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education.
 
 - Mar 01, 2024 | House
- Prefiled.
 - Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education.
 
 
Bill Texts 
        
            - HB708 OriginalPDF
 - HB708 EngrossedPDF
 - HB708 EnrolledPDF
 - HB708 Act 659PDF
 - House Committee Amendment, #1300, EDUC, DraftPDF
 - House Committee Amendment, #1587, EDUC, AdoptedPDF
 - Senate Committee Amendment, #2799, EDUC, DraftPDF
 - Senate Committee Amendment, #2929, EDUC, AdoptedPDF
 - Senate Floor Bureau Note, #3215, Talbot, AdoptedPDF
 - Senate Floor Amendment, #3691, Foil, WithdrawnPDF
 - Senate Floor Amendment, #4181, Lambert, AdoptedPDF
 - Senate Floor Amendment, #4270, Foil, AdoptedPDF
 

