EARLY CHILDHOOD: Establishes a program to be administered by the La. Educational Television Authority for the purpose of encouraging reading for young children and creates a fund within the state treasury for the purpose of funding the program (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2023
Committee Review
May 2023
House Passage
May 2023
Senate Passage
Jun 2023
Signed into Law
Jun 2023
Introduced Mar 30, 2023
Signed Jun 8, 2023
Floor votes · Senate Jun 2, 2023 · House May 22, 2023
How they voted
33–0
Passed · 2 other
Total votes 35
Jun 2, 2023
D
Democratic12
91% Yea
R
Republican23
95% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
22
Key actions
5
Committee
7
Jun 2, 2023
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 30, 2023
Committee
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 29, 2023
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
upper
May 22, 2023
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
May 15, 2023
Lower · Passed
Reported favorably (20-0).
lower
May 3, 2023
Committee
Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
lower
May 2, 2023
Lower · Passed
Reported with amendments (11-0).
lower
Apr 10, 2023
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education.
lower
Mar 30, 2023
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education.
lower
1 primary · 7 co-sponsors
Sponsors
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