Louisiana 2023 Regular Session Status: Enacted 2 D cosponsors

HB 353 — STUDENTS: Provides relative to student behavior, discipline, and behavioral and mental health (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

Last action — Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 318.

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

This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced March 29, 2023. Enacted.

Prognosis

Likely to advance 74% · moderate confidence

Where this bill stands today.

Odds of enactment

High

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  • Enacted

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • 2 sponsors

    1 primary, 1 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Single-party support

    Sponsorship is currently within one party (2 D).

  • Cleared a recorded vote

    Passed 3 recorded votes so far.

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Bill Text

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Action History

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 318.

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2023.

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

  4. Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.

  5. Signed by the President of the Senate.

  6. Read by title, roll called, yeas 95, nays 6, Senate amendments concurred in.

  7. Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

  8. Received from the Senate with amendments.

  9. Scheduled for concurrence on 06/06/2023.

  10. Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.

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

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

  13. Senate Committee amendments read and adopted.

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

  15. Reported with amendments.

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

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

  18. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 6. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

  19. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/23/2023.

  20. Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.

  21. Reported with amendments (9-1-1).

  22. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education.

  23. First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.

  24. Prefiled.

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

Sponsors

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 1 co-sponsors · 145 not signed on · 5 voted No

Sponsors (1)

Co-sponsors (1)

Not signed on (145)

145 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 (#1075)

Passed 95 Yea · 6 Nay · 4 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 27302
Republican 44302
Democrat 24000
Total 95604
% of votes cast 90%6%0%4%
How each member voted (105)
Member Party Vote
Coussan — Yea
Stagni — Yea
Stefanski — Yea
DuBuisson — Yea
Emerson — Yea
Magee — Yea
White — Yea
McKnight — Yea
Willard — Yea
Amedee — Nay
Frieman — Nay
Garofalo — Nay
Davis — Not Voting
Marino — Not Voting
Mr. Speaker — Yea
Gaines — Yea
Mincey — Yea
Glover — Yea
Goudeau — Yea
Nelson — Yea
Bishop — Yea
Hollis — Yea
Hughes — Yea
Brown — Yea
Huval — Yea
Pierre — Yea
Ivey — Yea
Jefferson — Yea
Romero — Yea
Cormier — Yea
Johnson, T. — Yea
St. Blanc — Yea
Adrian Fisher Democrat Yea
Aimee Adatto Freeman Democrat Yea
Alonzo L. Knox Democrat Yea
Barbara Carpenter Democrat Yea
C. Denise Marcelle Democrat Yea
Candace N. Newell Democrat Yea
Delisha Boyd Democrat Yea
Dustin Miller Democrat Yea
Edmond Jordan Democrat Yea
III, Ed Larvadain Democrat Yea
Jimmy Harris Democrat Yea
Jr., Kyle M. Green Democrat Yea
Ken Brass Democrat Yea
Larry Selders Democrat Yea
Mandie Landry Democrat Yea
Marcus Anthony Bryant Democrat Yea
Pat Moore Democrat Yea
Robby Carter Democrat Yea
Rodney Lyons Democrat Yea
Roy Daryl Adams Democrat Yea
Sam Jenkins Democrat Yea
Sr., Wilford Carter Democrat Yea
Tammy T. Phelps Democrat Yea
Vanessa Caston LaFleur Democrat Yea
Alan Seabaugh Republican Yea
Barbara Reich Freiberg Republican Yea
Blake Miguez Republican Yea
Brett F. Geymann Republican Yea
Bryan Fontenot Republican Yea
Charles Owen Republican Yea
Christopher Turner Republican Yea
Danny McCormick Republican Not Voting
Daryl Andrew Deshotel Republican Yea
Debbie Villio Republican Yea
Dodie Horton Republican Nay
Foy Bryan Gadberry Republican Yea
Francis C. Thompson Republican Yea
Gregory A. Miller Republican Yea
III, Vincent E. Cox Republican Yea
IV, Gerald "Beau" Beaullieu Republican Yea
Jack McFarland Republican Yea
Jeremy LaCombe Republican Yea
Jerome Zeringue Republican Yea
Joseph A. Orgeron Republican Yea
Jr., John R. Illg Republican Yea
Jr., William "Bill" Wheat Republican Yea
Kathy Edmonston Republican Yea
Larry A. Bagley Republican Yea
Laurie Schlegel Republican Yea
Les Farnum Republican Yea
Mark Wright Republican Yea
Michael "Gabe" Firment Republican Yea
Michael Charles Echols Republican Yea
Mike Johnson Republican Yea
Neil Riser Republican Yea
Nicholas Muscarello Republican Yea
Phillip DeVillier Republican Yea
Phillip Eric Tarver Republican Yea
Polly Thomas Republican Yea
R. Dewith Carrier Republican Yea
Raymond J. Crews Republican Nay
Rhonda Gaye Butler Republican Yea
Rick Edmonds Republican Yea
Robert "Bob" Owen Republican Yea
Rodney Schamerhorn Republican Yea
Ryan Bourriaque Republican Yea
Shane Mack Republican Yea
Stephanie Hilferty Republican Not Voting
Thomas A. Pressly Republican Yea
Timothy P. Kerner Republican Yea
Tony Bacala Republican Yea
Valarie Hodges Republican Nay
Wayne McMahen Republican Yea

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FINAL PASSAGE (#859)

Passed 39 Yea · 0 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 13000
Republican 19000
Democrat 7000
Total 39000
% of votes cast 100%0%0%0%
How each member voted (39)
Member Party Vote
Mr. President — Yea
Fields — Yea
Mills, R. — Yea
Peacock — Yea
Bernard — Yea
Pope — Yea
Hewitt — Yea
Bouie — Yea
Carter — Yea
Smith — Yea
Milligan — Yea
White — Yea
Mills, F. — Yea
Edward J. Price Democrat Yea
Gerald Boudreaux Democrat Yea
Jay Luneau Democrat Yea
Jimmy Harris Democrat Yea
Katrina R. Jackson-Andrews Democrat Yea
Regina Barrow Democrat Yea
Royce Duplessis Democrat Yea
Beth Mizell Republican Yea
Bob Hensgens Republican Yea
Caleb Kleinpeter Republican Yea
Cameron Henry Republican Yea
Eddie J. Lambert Republican Yea
Franklin J. Foil Republican Yea
Glen Womack Republican Yea
Heather Cloud Republican Yea
Jeremy Stine Republican Yea
John C. "Jay" Morris Republican Yea
Kirk Talbot Republican Yea
Mark Abraham Republican Yea
Michael "Big Mike" Fesi Republican Yea
Mike Reese Republican Yea
Patrick Connick Republican Yea
Patrick McMath Republican Yea
Phillip Eric Tarver Republican Yea
Robert Allain Republican Yea
Stewart Jr. Cathey Republican Yea

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FINAL PASSAGE (#585)

Passed 93 Yea · 6 Nay · 6 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Republican 43402
Unaffiliated 27203
Democrat 23001
Total 93606
% of votes cast 89%6%0%6%
How each member voted (105)
Member Party Vote
Stagni — Yea
Stefanski — Yea
DuBuisson — Yea
Emerson — Yea
Magee — Yea
Marino — Yea
White — Yea
Willard — Yea
McKnight — Yea
Amedee — Nay
Garofalo — Nay
Frieman — Not Voting
Hollis — Not Voting
Mr. Speaker — Yea
Gaines — Yea
Mincey — Yea
Glover — Yea
Bishop — Yea
Goudeau — Yea
Nelson — Yea
Brown — Yea
Hughes — Yea
Huval — Yea
Pierre — Yea
Ivey — Yea
Jefferson — Yea
Romero — Yea
Cormier — Yea
Coussan — Yea
Davis — Yea
Johnson, T. — Not Voting
St. Blanc — Yea
Adrian Fisher Democrat Yea
Aimee Adatto Freeman Democrat Yea
Alonzo L. Knox Democrat Yea
Barbara Carpenter Democrat Yea
C. Denise Marcelle Democrat Yea
Candace N. Newell Democrat Yea
Delisha Boyd Democrat Yea
Dustin Miller Democrat Yea
Edmond Jordan Democrat Yea
III, Ed Larvadain Democrat Yea
Jimmy Harris Democrat Yea
Jr., Kyle M. Green Democrat Yea
Ken Brass Democrat Yea
Larry Selders Democrat Yea
Mandie Landry Democrat Yea
Marcus Anthony Bryant Democrat Not Voting
Pat Moore Democrat Yea
Robby Carter Democrat Yea
Rodney Lyons Democrat Yea
Roy Daryl Adams Democrat Yea
Sam Jenkins Democrat Yea
Sr., Wilford Carter Democrat Yea
Tammy T. Phelps Democrat Yea
Vanessa Caston LaFleur Democrat Yea
Alan Seabaugh Republican Nay
Barbara Reich Freiberg Republican Yea
Blake Miguez Republican Yea
Brett F. Geymann Republican Yea
Bryan Fontenot Republican Yea
Charles Owen Republican Yea
Christopher Turner Republican Yea
Danny McCormick Republican Nay
Daryl Andrew Deshotel Republican Yea
Debbie Villio Republican Yea
Dodie Horton Republican Yea
Foy Bryan Gadberry Republican Yea
Francis C. Thompson Republican Yea
Gregory A. Miller Republican Yea
III, Vincent E. Cox Republican Yea
IV, Gerald "Beau" Beaullieu Republican Yea
Jack McFarland Republican Yea
Jeremy LaCombe Republican Yea
Jerome Zeringue Republican Yea
Joseph A. Orgeron Republican Yea
Jr., John R. Illg Republican Yea
Jr., William "Bill" Wheat Republican Yea
Kathy Edmonston Republican Yea
Larry A. Bagley Republican Yea
Laurie Schlegel Republican Yea
Les Farnum Republican Yea
Mark Wright Republican Yea
Michael "Gabe" Firment Republican Yea
Michael Charles Echols Republican Yea
Mike Johnson Republican Yea
Neil Riser Republican Yea
Nicholas Muscarello Republican Yea
Phillip DeVillier Republican Yea
Phillip Eric Tarver Republican Yea
Polly Thomas Republican Yea
R. Dewith Carrier Republican Yea
Raymond J. Crews Republican Nay
Rhonda Gaye Butler Republican Yea
Rick Edmonds Republican Yea
Robert "Bob" Owen Republican Not Voting
Rodney Schamerhorn Republican Yea
Ryan Bourriaque Republican Yea
Shane Mack Republican Yea
Stephanie Hilferty Republican Not Voting
Thomas A. Pressly Republican Yea
Timothy P. Kerner Republican Yea
Tony Bacala Republican Yea
Valarie Hodges Republican Nay
Wayne McMahen Republican Yea

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Subjects

public-safety education
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Frequently asked questions

Who sponsors HB 353?
HB 353 is sponsored by C. Denise Marcelle (Democrat) and Alonzo L. Knox (Democrat).
What is the current status of HB 353?
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced March 29, 2023. Enacted.
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