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LouisianaSB 272025 Regular SessionSenateWALLET

TAX/TAXATION: Provides relative to the tax credit for donations to school tuition organizations. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE See Note)

Sponsored By: Kirk Talbot (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Ways and MeansRevenue and Fiscal Affairs

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

2 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 0 costs, 2 mixed.

Families can combine scholarships within aid limits

Qualified Louisiana students can combine scholarships from multiple school tuition organizations with other student-specific public aid for nonpublic school. Total organization scholarships cannot exceed tuition and fees or a grade-based funding limit, whichever is lower. That limit is 80% of the prior-year state average Minimum Foundation Program per-student funding for kindergarten through grade 8. For grades 9–12, it is 90%. Organization scholarships plus other public aid cannot exceed tuition and fees. The state education department checks these limits, and the organization causing an excess must repay it to the state. Parents cannot also claim scholarship payments as another Louisiana tax credit, deduction, exemption, or rebate.

Scholarship families get payment and testing safeguards

School tuition organizations must send quarterly scholarship payments, made out to a parent, to the student's qualifying school. Parents must approve deposits into the school's account and can endorse checks electronically, but cannot authorize someone else to endorse. When enrollment ends, the school must be notified, and scholarship payments must stop. The scholarship organization and state education department must receive immediate notice. Qualified schools must test participating students annually in English and math using state accountability tests or an allowed alternative. Alternatives include nationally norm-referenced tests or state board-approved assessments. Testing uses money retained for scholarship organizations' administrative costs; the state education department cannot pay to administer state tests to applicants. Schools must give parents results each year, starting with the first testing year.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Kirk Talbot

    Republican • Senate

Cosponsors

  • Beth Anne Billings

    Republican • House

  • C. Travis Johnson

    Democratic • House

  • Michael Robert Bayham Jr.

    Republican • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 140 • No: 9

House vote • 6/8/2025

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 98 • No: 0

House vote • 6/2/2025

Reported with amendments

Yes: 14 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/27/2025

Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 28 yeas and 9 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 28 • No: 9

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 403.

    6/20/2025Senate

  2. Effective date 6/20/2025.

    6/20/2025Senate

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

    6/11/2025Senate

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

    6/10/2025Senate

  5. Signed by the Speaker of the House.

    6/10/2025House

  6. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

    6/8/2025House

  7. Received from the House with amendments.

    6/8/2025Senate

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

    6/4/2025House

  9. Scheduled for floor debate on 06/08/2025.

    6/4/2025House

  10. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.

    6/3/2025House

  11. Reported with amendments (14-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    6/2/2025House

  12. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

    5/29/2025House

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

    5/28/2025House

  14. Called from the Calendar.

    5/27/2025Senate

  15. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 28 yeas and 9 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/27/2025Senate

  16. Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.

    5/14/2025Senate

  17. Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.

    5/13/2025Senate

  18. Reported with amendments.

    5/12/2025Senate

  19. Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs.

    4/14/2025Senate

  20. Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs.

    3/28/2025Senate

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