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LouisianaHB 3272025 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

TOPS: Requires schools to use a 10-point grading scale to assign grades used in the calculation of the minimum grade point average required for initial award eligibility (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

Sponsored By: Tehmi Jahi Chassion (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

Education

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

1 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.

Standard grading for student scholarship eligibility

Beginning with the 2024–2025 school year, Louisiana public and state-approved nonpublic schools must use a 10-point scale to check initial TOPS scholarship eligibility. This applies even when a school uses another grading scale. Minimum GPAs stay unchanged on a 4.00 scale: Opportunity, 2.50; Performance, 3.25; Honors, 3.50; and TOPS-Tech, 2.50. Only grades from the required TOPS core courses count. Nonpublic schools that did not use the 10-point scale in 2024–2025 must also recheck certain graduates' grades. This covers 2024–2025 graduates applying for TOPS with cumulative GPAs below 3.50 whose grades were submitted before the law took effect. Schools must recalculate their 2024–2025 TOPS core course grades using teachers' original percentage scores. They must recertify and submit those grades to the Louisiana Department of Education by August 31, 2025.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Tehmi Jahi Chassion

    Democratic • House

Cosponsors

  • Alonzo L. Knox

    Democratic • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 354 • No: 2

Senate vote • 6/11/2025

Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays.

Yes: 38 • No: 0

House vote • 6/11/2025

Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 81, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.

Yes: 81 • No: 0

House vote • 6/3/2025

Read by title, roll called, yeas 98, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.

Yes: 98 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/28/2025

Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 38 • No: 0

House vote • 4/24/2025

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 88, nays 2. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 88 • No: 2

House vote • 4/16/2025

Reported favorably

Yes: 11 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 356.

    6/20/2025House

  2. Effective date: 06/20/2025.

    6/20/2025House

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

    6/12/2025House

  4. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    6/12/2025Senate

  5. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    6/12/2025House

  6. Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 81, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.

    6/11/2025House

  7. Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.

    6/11/2025Senate

  8. Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays.

    6/11/2025Senate

  9. Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.

    6/11/2025House

  10. Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules.

    6/10/2025House

  11. Scheduled for floor debate on 06/11/2025.

    6/10/2025House

  12. Conference committee report received.

    6/10/2025Senate

  13. Senate conference committee members appointed: Edmonds, Miguez, and Mizell.

    6/9/2025Senate

  14. Notice of Senate conferees appointed.

    6/9/2025House

  15. Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.

    6/4/2025Senate

  16. Read by title, roll called, yeas 98, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.

    6/3/2025House

  17. Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.

    6/3/2025Senate

  18. House conferees appointed: Chassion, Schlegel, and Hughes.

    6/3/2025House

  19. Scheduled for concurrence on 06/03/2025.

    6/2/2025House

  20. Received from the Senate with amendments.

    5/29/2025House

  21. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/28/2025Senate

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

    5/20/2025Senate

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

    5/19/2025Senate

  24. Rules suspended. Reported favorably.

    5/14/2025Senate

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

    4/29/2025Senate

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