2025 Regular Session
HB77
Adds the Excellence award level for students who score 31 or higher on the ACT and allows award qualification based on the Classic Learning Test (EN +$3,012,092 SG EX See Note)
Legislative progress
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This summary includes only completed milestones supported by recorded actions. It does not predict the next step, and it preserves later committee reassignments, concurrence, conference, veto, and approval actions when they occur.
Recorded floor votes
10 roll calls are available for this bill. This record includes procedural and intermediate action as well as substantive final votes.
May 19, 2025 · House
House Vote on HB 77 AMENDMENT # 3138 BY TURNER MOTION TO ADOPT (#432)
Passed
73 yea–26 nay · 6 absent
May 19, 2025 · House
House Vote on HB 77 RECOMMIT TO THE COMMITTEE ON APPRO (#433)
Failed
33 yea–67 nay · 5 absent
May 19, 2025 · House
House Vote on HB 77 AMENDMENT # 3149 BY MARCELLE MOTION TO ADOPT (#434)
Failed
31 yea–67 nay · 7 absent
May 19, 2025 · House
House Vote on HB 77 FINAL PASSAGE (#435)
Passed ⭐ Substantive final action
91 yea–4 nay · 10 absent
May 19, 2025 · House
House Vote on HB 77 FINAL PASSAGE (#435)
Passed ⭐ Substantive final action
92 yea–3 nay · 10 absent
June 8, 2025 · Senate
Senate Vote on HB 77 FINAL PASSAGE (#684)
Passed ⭐ Substantive final action
39 yea–0 nay
June 8, 2025 · Senate
Senate Vote on HB 77 CO-AUTHORS (#685)
Passed
13 yea–0 nay · 26 absent
June 9, 2025 · House
House Vote on HB 77 REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#994)
Passed
99 yea–0 nay · 6 absent
June 12, 2025 · House
House Vote on HB 77 ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1261)
Passed
99 yea–0 nay · 6 absent
June 12, 2025 · Senate
Senate Vote on HB 77 ADOPT (#996)
Passed
37 yea–0 nay · 2 absent
Committee referrals
June 1, 2025 · Senate
Finance
May 21, 2025 · Senate
Education
April 22, 2025 · House
Appropriations
March 17, 2025 · House
Education
Instrument history
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This is the complete recorded action history in the current source package. Highlighted entries are marked as significant by the source. A roll-call link appears only when a vote-like action has one unambiguous same-day chamber vote.
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House Effective date: See Act.
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House Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 347.
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House Sent to the Governor for executive approval.
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Senate Signed by the President of the Senate.
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House Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
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House Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
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Senate Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays. View roll call
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Senate Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report. View roll call
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House Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 99, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted. View roll call
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House Rules suspended.
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House Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules.
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House Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
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Senate Senate conference committee members appointed: Edmonds, Jenkins, and Womack.
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Senate Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
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House House conferees appointed: Turner, Schlegel, and Bourriaque.
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Senate Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
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House Read by title, roll called, yeas 99, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
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House Scheduled for concurrence on 06/09/2025.
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House Received from the Senate with amendments.
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Senate Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
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Senate Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
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Senate Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
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Senate Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
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Senate Senate Committee amendments read and adopted.
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Senate Reported with amendments.
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Senate Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education.
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Senate Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
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House Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 3. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
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House Scheduled for floor debate on 05/19/2025.
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House Read by title, amended, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
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House Reported with amendments (18-0).
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House Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
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House Reported with amendments (11-0).
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House Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education.
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House First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/21/2025.
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House Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education.
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House Prefiled.