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Louisiana · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 395: HIGHER EDUCATION: Expands eligible programs for M.J. Foster Promise Program funding to include those associated with LED projects (EG +$1,257,762 SD EX See Note)

Passed one chamber Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 395 is a bill introduced in the Louisiana House on April 3, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: HIGHER EDUCATION: Expands eligible programs for M.J. Foster Promise Program funding to include those associated with LED projects (EG +$1,257,762 SD EX See Note). Primary sponsor: Ken Brass (Democratic). Most recent recorded action (May 12, 2025): Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Ken BrassPrimary sponsorDemocraticHouse58

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
  2. Reported favorably.
  3. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education.
  4. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
  5. Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
  6. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/29/2025.
  7. Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
  8. Reported with amendments (10-0).
  9. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education.
  10. Prefiled.
  11. Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education.

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source