SB 313 Louisiana Senate · 2024 Regular Session

SCHOOLS: Creates the Louisiana Giving All True Opportunity to Rise (LA GATOR) Scholarship Program to provide educational savings accounts for parental choice in K-12 education. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

SB 313 establishes the LA GATOR Scholarship Program, which allows parents to open educational savings accounts for their K-12 students. These accounts enable families to use saved funds for educational expenses, expanding parental choice in how they support their children's schooling. The bill includes technical amendments that update specific subsection references within the text to ensure consistency. This legislation focuses on creating a new funding mechanism for education savings rather than altering existing school funding structures.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2024
Committee Review
May 2024
Senate Passage
May 2024
House Passage
May 2024
Signed into Law
Jun 2024
Introduced Mar 1, 2024 Signed Jun 19, 2024
Floor votes · Senate May 8, 2024 · House May 28, 2024

How they voted

2016
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 37
May 8, 2024
D Democratic12
12 Yea
100% Yea
R Republican25
8 Yea 16 Nay 1
64% Nay
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
27
Key actions
8
Committee
8
May 30, 2024
Upper · Passed
Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 23 yeas and 14 nays.
upper
May 28, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 68, nays 28. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.
lower
May 23, 2024
Lower · Passed
Discharged from the Committee on Appropriations.
lower
May 22, 2024
Committee
Read by title, amended, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
lower
May 21, 2024
Lower · Passed
Reported with amendments (8-4). To be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
lower
May 20, 2024
Committee
Received in the House from the Senate, rules suspended, read by title, referred to the Committee on Education.
lower
May 16, 2024
Upper · Passed
Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 24 yeas and 15 nays; ordered re-reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 8, 2024
Upper · Passed
Senate floor amendments read and adopted.
upper
May 6, 2024
Upper · Passed
Reported with amendments.
upper
Mar 25, 2024
Committee
Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted; ordered engrossed and recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
upper
Mar 20, 2024
Upper · Passed
Reported with amendments.
upper
Mar 11, 2024
Committee
Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Education.
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Photo of Rick Edmonds
Rick Edmonds
RRepublican
LA
6