Louisiana 2018 Regular Session Status: Passed House

HB 656 — STUDENTS:  Provides relative to literacy screenings for students (REF INCREASE LF EX See Note)

Last action — Read by title, roll called, yeas 88, nays 1, Senate amendments concurred in.

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  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
  3. 3
    Passed House
  4. 4
    Passed Senate
  5. 5
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill died with 2018 Regular Session. It reached “Passed House” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.

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Action History

  1. Read by title, roll called, yeas 88, nays 1, Senate amendments concurred in.

  2. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

  3. Received from the Senate with amendments.

  4. Scheduled for concurrence on 05/18/18.

  5. Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.

  6. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

  7. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.

  8. Senate Committee amendments read and adopted.

  9. Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.

  10. Rules suspended. Reported with amendments.

  11. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education.

  12. Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

  13. Read by title, returned to the calendar.

  14. Called from the calendar.

  15. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 87, nays 5. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

  16. Read by title, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading.

  17. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/03/18.

  18. Reported favorably (17-0).

  19. Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.

  20. Reported with amendments (13-0).

  21. Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Education.

  22. Prefiled.

  23. Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education.

Sponsors

  • Julie Emerson · Primary

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 146 not signed on · 3 voted No

Sponsors (1)

  • Julie Emerson

Co-sponsors (0)

None.

Not signed on (146)

146 members have not signed on to this bill.

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"Not signed on" means a member has not sponsored or co-sponsored this bill — it does not imply opposition. Members flagged Voted No have a recorded No vote on this bill.

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Votes

CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1356)

Passed 88 Yea · 1 Nay · 15 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Republican 24001
Unaffiliated 541011
Democrat 10003
Total 881015
% of votes cast 85%1%0%14%
How each member voted (104)
Member Party Vote
Huval — Yea
Ivey — Yea
Leger — Yea
Leopold — Yea
Magee — Yea
Marino — Yea
Abramson — Not Voting
Hall — Yea
Havard — Yea
Hazel — Yea
Mr. Speaker — Yea
Henry — Yea
Hill — Yea
Howard — Yea
Bishop — Yea
Hunter — Yea
Brown, C. — Yea
Brown, T. — Yea
Carter, S. — Yea
Amedee — Yea
Armes — Yea
Billiot — Yea
Bouie — Yea
Carmody — Yea
Pearson — Yea
Pierre — Yea
Pugh — Yea
Pylant — Yea
Reynolds — Yea
Richard — Yea
Schexnayder — Yea
Guinn — Not Voting
Hoffmann — Not Voting
Smith — Yea
Hollis — Not Voting
James — Yea
Johnson — Yea
Jefferson — Yea
Landry, N. — Yea
Jones — Not Voting
White — Yea
LeBas — Yea
Norton — Not Voting
Pope — Nay
Shadoin — Yea
Coussan — Yea
Cromer — Not Voting
Davis — Yea
Simon — Yea
Stagni — Yea
Stefanski — Yea
Stokes — Yea
Thibaut — Not Voting
Anders — Yea
Bagneris — Not Voting
Berthelot — Yea
Chaney — Yea
Dwight — Yea
Emerson — Yea
Falconer — Yea
Franklin — Yea
Gaines — Not Voting
Garofalo — Yea
Gisclair — Yea
Glover — Not Voting
Landry, T. — Yea
Barbara Carpenter Democrat Yea
C. Denise Marcelle Democrat Yea
Dustin Miller Democrat Yea
Edmond Jordan Democrat Yea
Gary Carter Democrat Not Voting
Jimmy Harris Democrat Yea
Jimmy Harris Democrat Not Voting
Ken Brass Democrat Yea
Robby Carter Democrat Not Voting
Rodney Lyons Democrat Yea
Royce Duplessis Democrat Yea
Sam Jenkins Democrat Yea
Steven Jackson Democrat Yea
Alan Seabaugh Republican Yea
Blake Miguez Republican Yea
Bob Hensgens Republican Yea
Dodie Horton Republican Yea
Franklin J. Foil Republican Yea
Gregory A. Miller Republican Yea
III, Vincent E. Cox Republican Yea
Jack McFarland Republican Not Voting
Jerome Zeringue Republican Yea
John C. "Jay" Morris Republican Yea
John C. "Jay" Morris Republican Yea
Kirk Talbot Republican Yea
Larry A. Bagley Republican Yea
Mark Abraham Republican Yea
Mark Wright Republican Yea
Nicholas Muscarello Republican Yea
Patrick Connick Republican Yea
Phillip DeVillier Republican Yea
Polly Thomas Republican Yea
Raymond J. Crews Republican Yea
Rick Edmonds Republican Yea
Shane Mack Republican Yea
Stephanie Hilferty Republican Yea
Tony Bacala Republican Yea
Valarie Hodges Republican Yea

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FINAL PASSAGE (#1287)

Passed 33 Yea · 0 Nay · 6 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 24004
Democrat 3002
Republican 6000
Total 33006
% of votes cast 85%0%0%15%
How each member voted (39)
Member Party Vote
Johns — Yea
Long — Yea
Martiny — Yea
Mills — Yea
Milkovich — Yea
Hewitt — Yea
Morrell — Yea
Morrish — Yea
Mr. President — Yea
Peacock — Yea
Perry — Yea
Bishop — Yea
Carter — Yea
Smith, G. — Yea
Peterson — Yea
Smith, J. — Yea
White — Yea
Fannin — Not Voting
Appel — Yea
Chabert — Yea
Claitor — Yea
Colomb — Not Voting
Donahue — Yea
Erdey — Yea
Walsworth — Yea
Ward — Not Voting
Cortez — Not Voting
Gatti — Yea
Edward J. Price Democrat Yea
Gerald Boudreaux Democrat Not Voting
Jay Luneau Democrat Yea
Regina Barrow Democrat Not Voting
Vanessa Caston LaFleur Democrat Yea
Beth Mizell Republican Yea
Eddie J. Lambert Republican Yea
Francis C. Thompson Republican Yea
Neil Riser Republican Yea
Phillip Eric Tarver Republican Yea
Robert Allain Republican Yea

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FINAL PASSAGE (#730)

Passed 87 Yea · 5 Nay · 13 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 56209
Democrat 9202
Republican 22102
Total 875013
% of votes cast 83%5%0%12%
How each member voted (105)
Member Party Vote
Hoffmann — Yea
Howard — Yea
Ivey — Not Voting
Magee — Nay
Marino — Not Voting
Stefanski — Yea
Norton — Yea
Pugh — Yea
Reynolds — Yea
Guinn — Yea
LeBas — Yea
Leger — Yea
Mr. Speaker — Yea
Amedee — Yea
Anders — Yea
Thibaut — Nay
Hall — Yea
Havard — Yea
Hazel — Yea
Bishop — Yea
Henry — Not Voting
Brown, T. — Yea
Carter, S. — Yea
Hill — Yea
Hollis — Yea
Smith — Yea
Hunter — Yea
Huval — Yea
James — Yea
Jefferson — Yea
Johnson — Yea
White — Yea
Landry, N. — Yea
Jones — Yea
Brown, C. — Not Voting
Billiot — Yea
Bouie — Yea
Carmody — Yea
Coussan — Yea
Danahay — Yea
Pearson — Yea
Pierre — Yea
Pope — Yea
Pylant — Yea
Richard — Yea
Schexnayder — Yea
Shadoin — Yea
Stagni — Yea
Stokes — Yea
Leopold — Not Voting
Cromer — Not Voting
Simon — Not Voting
Abramson — Yea
Armes — Not Voting
Bagneris — Yea
Berthelot — Yea
Chaney — Yea
Davis — Not Voting
Dwight — Yea
Emerson — Yea
Falconer — Yea
Franklin — Yea
Gaines — Yea
Garofalo — Yea
Gisclair — Yea
Glover — Yea
Landry, T. — Yea
Barbara Carpenter Democrat Nay
C. Denise Marcelle Democrat Not Voting
Dustin Miller Democrat Not Voting
Edmond Jordan Democrat Nay
Gary Carter Democrat Yea
Jimmy Harris Democrat Yea
Jimmy Harris Democrat Yea
Ken Brass Democrat Yea
Robby Carter Democrat Yea
Rodney Lyons Democrat Yea
Royce Duplessis Democrat Yea
Sam Jenkins Democrat Yea
Steven Jackson Democrat Yea
Alan Seabaugh Republican Not Voting
Blake Miguez Republican Yea
Bob Hensgens Republican Yea
Dodie Horton Republican Yea
Franklin J. Foil Republican Yea
Gregory A. Miller Republican Yea
III, Vincent E. Cox Republican Yea
Jack McFarland Republican Yea
Jerome Zeringue Republican Yea
John C. "Jay" Morris Republican Yea
John C. "Jay" Morris Republican Yea
Kirk Talbot Republican Yea
Larry A. Bagley Republican Nay
Mark Abraham Republican Yea
Mark Wright Republican Yea
Nicholas Muscarello Republican Yea
Patrick Connick Republican Yea
Phillip DeVillier Republican Yea
Polly Thomas Republican Yea
Raymond J. Crews Republican Not Voting
Rick Edmonds Republican Yea
Shane Mack Republican Yea
Stephanie Hilferty Republican Yea
Tony Bacala Republican Yea
Valarie Hodges Republican Yea

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Frequently asked questions

Who sponsors HB 656?
HB 656 is sponsored by Julie Emerson.
What is the current status of HB 656?
This bill died with 2018 Regular Session. It reached “Passed House” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.
Where can I track HB 656?
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