2025 Regular Session • Louisiana Legislature
HB54
Legislative Summary
Provides for the designation of a postsecondary education institution as a "Purple Star Campus" (EG1 NO IMPACT See Note)
Demographic Impact
Overall analysis of equity impact
90% Positive
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Bill History
3/11/2025
Prefiled.
House of Representatives
3/11/2025
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education.
House of Representatives
3/14/2025
First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/14/2025.
House of Representatives
4/14/2025
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education.
House of Representatives
4/29/2025
Reported favorably (10-0).
House of Representatives
4/30/2025
Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
House of Representatives
5/5/2025
Scheduled for floor debate on 05/06/2025.
House of Representatives
5/6/2025
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
House of Representatives
5/6/2025
Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
Senate
5/7/2025
Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education.
Senate
5/14/2025
Rules suspended. Reported with amendments.
Senate
5/19/2025
Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
Senate
5/20/2025
Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
Senate
5/27/2025
Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
Senate
5/27/2025
Received from the Senate with amendments.
House of Representatives
5/28/2025
Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2025.
House of Representatives
5/29/2025
Read by title, roll called, yeas 92, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
House of Representatives
Amendments
Senate Committee Amendment #1769 EDUC Proposed
Senate Committee Amendment #1769 EDUC Proposed
Not Adopted
Senate Committee Amendment #1700 EDUC Draft
Senate Committee Amendment #1700 EDUC Draft
Not Adopted
Roll Call Votes
House Vote on HB 54 CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#703)
5/29/2025
92
Yea
0
Nay
0
Not Voting
13
Absent
Result: PASSED
Senate Vote on HB 54 FINAL PASSAGE (#378)
5/27/2025
36
Yea
0
Nay
0
Not Voting
3
Absent
Result: PASSED
House Vote on HB 54 FINAL PASSAGE (#233)
5/6/2025
97
Yea
0
Nay
0
Not Voting
7
Absent
Result: PASSED
Status Information
Current Status
Engrossed(5/6/2025)
Chamber
House of Representatives
Sponsors
Republican: 3
Democrat: 1
Primary Sponsor
Dodie Horton
Republican