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LouisianaHB 4072026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

HIGHER EDUCATION: Provides relative to initial eligibility requirements for the M.J. Foster Promise Program (EN -$1,100,000 SD EX See Note)

Sponsored By: Ed Larvadain III (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

New age limits for Foster Promise students

Effective July 1, 2026, the law sets year-by-year age limits for Louisiana’s M.J. Foster Promise Program. The minimum age to first qualify is 20 for 2024-2025 and 19 for 2025-2026. It rises to 21 for 2026-2027 and 2027-2028. It drops to 18 for 2028-2029 and 17 for 2029-2030 and later years. Recipients who first qualified under the first two years’ age limits remain eligible while meeting all other program requirements. By January 1, 2028, the administering agency must report to the House and Senate education committees on the program since enactment. The report must include applicant and recipient counts, recipients’ average age, and the age rules’ fiscal impact. It must also cover projected savings or shifts in program funds and recommend keeping, changing, or ending the age rules.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Ed Larvadain III

    Democratic • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 140 • No: 4

Senate vote • 5/27/2026

Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 34 • No: 0

House vote • 4/8/2026

Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 2. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 94 • No: 2

House vote • 3/31/2026

Reported with amendments

Yes: 12 • No: 2

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 642.

    6/1/2026House

  2. Effective date: 07/01/2026.

    6/1/2026House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/29/2026House

  4. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/28/2026House

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

    5/28/2026House

  6. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/28/2026Senate

  7. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/27/2026Senate

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

    5/26/2026Senate

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

    5/25/2026Senate

  10. Reported favorably.

    5/21/2026Senate

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

    4/14/2026Senate

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

    4/13/2026Senate

  13. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 2. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/8/2026House

  14. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/08/2026.

    4/7/2026House

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

    4/1/2026House

  16. Reported with amendments (12-2).

    3/31/2026House

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

    3/9/2026House

  18. First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.

    2/27/2026House

  19. Prefiled.

    2/25/2026House

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

    2/25/2026House

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