LIBRARIES: Provides relative to qualifications for library directors
This bill updates the qualifications and appointment rules for library directors and board members in Louisiana. It enacts new provisions regarding the composition and appointment of library control boards while repealing an outdated statute that previously governed these roles. The legislation also expands the scope of library board duties to explicitly include membership responsibilities. By modifying existing state laws, the bill aims to clarify how library board members are selected and what their official roles entail.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Apr 2024
Committee Review
May 2024
House Passage
May 2024
Senate Passage
May 2024
Signed into Law
Jun 2024
Introduced Apr 25, 2024
Signed Jun 11, 2024
Floor votes · Senate May 28, 2024 · House Apr 30, 2024
How they voted
26–9
Passed · 3 other
Total votes 38
May 28, 2024
D
Democratic12
75% Nay
R
Republican26
92% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
21
Key actions
5
Committee
3
May 29, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read by title, roll called, yeas 67, nays 28, Senate amendments concurred in.
lower
May 28, 2024
Upper · Passed
Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 27 yeas and 9 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 13, 2024
Committee
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 8, 2024
Upper · Passed
Reported favorably.
upper
Apr 30, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 65, nays 38. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Apr 25, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 168 reported by the Committee on Education (10-0).
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Josh Carlson
RRepublican
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