2025 Regular Session • Louisiana Legislature
HB558
Legislative Summary
Provides relative to initial eligibility requirements for the M.J. Foster Promise Program (EG INCREASE SD EX See Note)
Demographic Impact
Overall analysis of equity impact
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Bill History
4/4/2025
Prefiled.
House of Representatives
4/4/2025
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education.
House of Representatives
4/14/2025
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education.
House of Representatives
4/23/2025
Reported with amendments (11-0).
House of Representatives
4/24/2025
Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
House of Representatives
4/30/2025
Discharged from the Committee on Appropriations.
House of Representatives
4/30/2025
Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
House of Representatives
5/6/2025
Scheduled for floor debate on 05/07/2025.
House of Representatives
5/7/2025
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
House of Representatives
5/7/2025
Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
Senate
5/8/2025
Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education.
Senate
5/29/2025
Reported with amendments.
Senate
Amendments
House Committee Amendment #1409 EDUC Draft
House Committee Amendment #1409 EDUC Draft
Not Adopted
House Committee Amendment #1554 EDUC Proposed
House Committee Amendment #1554 EDUC Proposed
Not Adopted
Senate Committee Amendment #2455 EDUC Proposed
Senate Committee Amendment #2455 EDUC Proposed
Not Adopted
Senate Committee Amendment #2432 EDUC Draft
Senate Committee Amendment #2432 EDUC Draft
Not Adopted
Roll Call Votes
House Vote on HB 558 FINAL PASSAGE (#252)
5/7/2025
100
Yea
0
Nay
0
Not Voting
4
Absent
Result: PASSED
Status Information
Current Status
Engrossed(5/7/2025)
Chamber
Senate
Sponsors
Republican: 12
Democrat: 9
Primary Sponsor
Paula Davis
Republican
Co-Sponsors (20)
Rhonda Butler
Republican
Vincent Cox
Republican
Jason DeWitt
Republican
Adrian Fisher
Democrat
Aimee Freeman
Democrat
Barbara Freiberg
Republican
Kyle Green
Democrat
Stephanie Hilferty
Republican
Jason Hughes
Democrat
Mike Johnson
Republican
Denise Marcelle
Democrat
Danny McCormick
Republican
Dixon McMakin
Republican
Pat Moore
Democrat
Candace Newell
Democrat
Charles Owen
Republican
Sylvia Taylor
Democrat
Francis Thompson
Republican
Matthew Willard
Democrat
John Wyble
Republican