LA SB 507
died on adjournmentSTUDENTS: Requires BESE to establish a uniform process to determine when a student is nonenrolled due to incarceration or unknown whereabouts in order to exclude the student from public school accountability calculations. (8/1/26)
Louisiana · 2026 Regular Session · upper
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Quick answers
Did LA SB 507 pass?
No. LA SB 507 died when the 2026 Regular Session adjourned without final action on it. Bills that die this way are sometimes reintroduced in a later session. Latest recorded action (2026-05-07): Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education.
What is LA SB 507 about?
LA SB 507 is a bill in the 2026 Regular Session titled “STUDENTS: Requires BESE to establish a uniform process to determine when a student is nonenrolled due to incarceration or unknown whereabouts in order to exclude the student from public school accountability calculations. (8/1/26)”.
Who sponsors LA SB 507?
Sidney Barthelemy is the primary sponsor of LA SB 507.
- Introduced
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- Latest action
- 2026-05-07 — Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Sponsors
- Sidney Barthelemyprimary
Committees
Not provided by source.
Action timeline
Newest first
2026-05-07
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education.
referral-committee
2026-05-06
Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
2026-05-05
Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
passage
2026-04-27
Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
2026-04-22
Rules suspended. Reported with amendments.
committee-passage-favorable
2026-04-01
Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education.
reading-2,referral-committee
2026-03-31
Rules suspended. Introduced in the Senate. Read by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
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Votes
FINAL PASSAGE (#551)
2026-05-05 · pass · 35-0
Member-level votes (39)
- Mr. President: yes
- Fesi: yes
- Miller: yes
- Abraham: yes
- Foil: yes
- Mizell: yes
- Allain: yes
- Harris: yes
- Morris: yes
- Barrow: yes
- Hensgens: yes
- Myers: yes
- Barthelemy: yes
- Hodges: yes
- Owen: yes
- Bass: yes
- Jackson-Andrews: yes
- Pressly: yes
- Boudreaux: yes
- Jenkins: yes
- Price: yes
- Carter: yes
- Kleinpeter: yes
- Seabaugh: yes
- Cathey: yes
- Lambert: yes
- Talbot: yes
- Cloud: yes
- Luneau: yes
- Wheat: yes
- Duplessis: yes
- McMath: yes
- Womack: yes
- Edmonds: yes
- Miguez: yes
- Connick: other
- Selders: other
- Reese: other
- Stine: other
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