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LouisianaSB 2072025 Regular SessionSenateWALLET

SECONDARY EDUCATION: Requires all public high school students to have access to available vocational and technical courses. (8/1/25) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

Sponsored By: Gary Carter (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

Education

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

Career course access for public high schoolers

Beginning August 1, 2025, Louisiana public high schools, including charter schools, must let students enroll in available vocational and technical courses. Schools without these courses may partner with other public schools, Louisiana two-year public colleges, or state-board-approved nonprofit career schools or Course Choice providers. Schools may request a state education board waiver if their approved mission or curriculum model does not fit these courses. Students cannot be charged a course fee when their local education agency receives career development funds through the Minimum Foundation Program for that course. Schools must also tell students about the TOPS Tech Early Start Award and explain who qualifies; award eligibility and amounts are unchanged.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Gary Carter

    Democratic • Senate

Cosponsors

  • Barbara Reich Freiberg

    Republican • House

  • Beryl Amedée

    Republican • House

  • Beth Mizell

    Republican • Senate

  • Blake Miguez

    Republican • Senate

  • Charles Owen

    Republican • House

  • Josh Carlson

    Republican • House

  • Kathy Edmonston

    Republican • House

  • Katrina R. Jackson-Andrews

    Democratic • Senate

  • Ken Brass

    Democratic • House

  • Rashid Armand Young

    Democratic • House

  • Rick Edmonds

    Republican • Senate

  • Sylvia Elaine Taylor

    Democratic • House

  • Terry Landry Jr.

    Democratic • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 144 • No: 0

House vote • 6/3/2025

Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 99 • No: 0

House vote • 5/28/2025

Reported with amendments

Yes: 8 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/20/2025

Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 37 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 449.

    6/20/2025Senate

  2. Effective date 8/1/2025.

    6/20/2025Senate

  3. Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    6/11/2025Senate

  4. Signed by the Speaker of the House.

    6/11/2025House

  5. Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate.

    6/11/2025Senate

  6. Received from the House with amendments.

    6/8/2025Senate

  7. Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.

    6/3/2025House

  8. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

    6/3/2025House

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

    6/2/2025House

  10. Scheduled for floor debate on 06/03/2025.

    6/2/2025House

  11. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.

    5/29/2025House

  12. Reported with amendments (8-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    5/28/2025House

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

    5/22/2025House

  14. Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.

    5/21/2025House

  15. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/20/2025Senate

  16. Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.

    5/19/2025Senate

  17. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.

    5/19/2025Senate

  18. Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted; ordered engrossed and recommitted to the Committee on Finance.

    5/12/2025Senate

  19. Reported with amendments.

    5/8/2025Senate

  20. Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Education.

    4/14/2025Senate

  21. Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Education.

    4/4/2025Senate

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