Louisiana 2025 Regular Session Status: Passed House Bipartisan · 11 R · 7 D cosponsors

HB 558 — HIGHER EDUCATION: Provides relative to initial eligibility requirements for the M.J. Foster Promise Program (EG1 INCREASE SD EX See Note)

Last action — Senate Committee amendments read and adopted.

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

This bill died with 2025 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.

This bill is no longer active — its legislative session has ended, so there are no live odds of enactment. It would have to be reintroduced in the current session to move again.

Bill Text

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Action History

  1. Senate Committee amendments read and adopted.

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

  3. Reported with amendments.

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

  5. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

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

  7. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/07/2025.

  8. Discharged from the Committee on Appropriations.

  9. Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.

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

  11. Reported with amendments (11-0).

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

  13. Prefiled.

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

Sponsors

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 20 co-sponsors · 126 not signed on

Sponsors (1)

  • Paula Davis

Co-sponsors (20)

Not signed on (126)

126 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

FINAL PASSAGE (#252)

Passed 100 Yea · 0 Nay · 4 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Democrat 25001
Republican 64002
Unaffiliated 11001
Total 100004
% of votes cast 96%0%0%4%
How each member voted (104)
Member Party Vote
Amedee — Yea
Emerson — Yea
Galle — Yea
Romero — Yea
Brown — Yea
Hughes — Yea
Stagni — Yea
Davis — Yea
Willard — Yea
Mr. Speaker — Not Voting
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
Edmond Jordan Democrat Yea
III, Ed Larvadain Democrat Yea
Joy Walters Democrat Yea
Jr., Kyle M. Green Democrat Yea
Ken Brass Democrat Yea
Mandie Landry Democrat Yea
Marcus Anthony Bryant Democrat Not Voting
Pat Moore Democrat Yea
Rashid Armand Young Democrat Yea
Robby Carter Democrat Yea
Rodney Lyons Democrat Yea
Roy Daryl Adams Democrat Yea
Shaun Raphael Mena Democrat Yea
Sr., Wilford Carter Democrat Yea
Steven Jackson Democrat Yea
Sylvia Elaine Taylor Democrat Yea
Tammy T. Phelps Democrat Yea
Tehmi Jahi Chassion Democrat Yea
Vanessa Caston LaFleur Democrat Yea
Annie Spell Republican Yea
Barbara Reich Freiberg Republican Yea
Beth Anne Billings Republican Yea
Brett F. Geymann Republican Yea
Brian Leonard Glorioso Republican Yea
Bryan Fontenot Republican Yea
Chad Michael Boyer Republican Yea
Chance Keith Henry Republican Yea
Christopher Turner Republican Yea
Danny McCormick Republican Yea
Daryl Andrew Deshotel Republican Yea
Debbie Villio Republican Yea
Dixon Wallace McMakin Republican Yea
Dodie Horton Republican Yea
Emily Chenevert Republican Yea
Foy Bryan Gadberry Republican Yea
Francis C. Thompson Republican Yea
Gregory A. Miller Republican Yea
III, Roger William Wilder Republican Yea
III, Vincent E. Cox Republican Yea
IV, Gerald "Beau" Beaullieu Republican Yea
Jack McFarland Republican Yea
Jacob Braud Republican Yea
Jacob Jules Landry Republican Yea
Jason Brian DeWitt Republican Yea
Jeffrey "Jeff" Fons Wiley Republican Yea
Jeremy LaCombe Republican Yea
Jerome Zeringue Republican Yea
Jessica Domangue Republican Yea
John E. Wyble Republican Yea
Joseph A. Orgeron Republican Yea
Josh Carlson Republican Yea
Jr., Dennis Bamburg Republican Yea
Jr., John R. Illg Republican Not Voting
Jr., Michael Robert Bayham Republican Yea
Kathy Edmonston Republican Yea
Kellee Hennessy Dickerson Republican Yea
Kim Carver Republican Yea
Kimberly Landry Coates Republican Yea
Larry A. Bagley Republican Yea
Lauren Ventrella Republican Yea
Laurie Schlegel Republican Yea
Les Farnum Republican Yea
Mark Wright Republican Yea
Michael "Gabe" Firment Republican Yea
Michael Charles Echols Republican Yea
Michael Melerine Republican Yea
Mike Johnson Republican Yea
Neil Riser Republican Yea
Nicholas Muscarello Republican Yea
Phillip Eric Tarver Republican Not Voting
Polly Thomas Republican Yea
R. Dewith Carrier Republican Yea
Raymond J. Crews Republican Yea
Rhonda Gaye Butler Republican Yea
Robert "Bob" Owen Republican Yea
Rodney Schamerhorn Republican Yea
Ryan Bourriaque Republican Yea
Shane Mack Republican Yea
Sr., Peter F. Egan Republican Yea
Stephanie H. Berault Republican Yea
Stephanie Hilferty Republican Yea
Timothy P. Kerner Republican Yea
Tony Bacala Republican Yea
Troy Jude Hebert Republican Yea
Wayne McMahen Republican Yea

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Subjects

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Frequently asked questions

Who sponsors HB 558?
HB 558 is sponsored by John E. Wyble (Republican), Matthew Willard, Francis C. Thompson (Republican), Sylvia Elaine Taylor (Democrat), Charles Owen (Republican), Candace N. Newell (Democrat), Pat Moore (Democrat), Dixon Wallace McMakin (Republican), Danny McCormick (Republican), C. Denise Marcelle (Democrat), Mike Johnson (Republican), Jason Hughes, Stephanie Hilferty (Republican), Jr., Kyle M. Green (Democrat), Barbara Reich Freiberg (Republican), Aimee Adatto Freeman (Democrat), Adrian Fisher (Democrat), Jason Brian DeWitt (Republican), III, Vincent E. Cox (Republican), Rhonda Gaye Butler (Republican), and Paula Davis.
What is the current status of HB 558?
This bill died with 2025 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 558?
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