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Read. Follow. Verify.Louisiana House Bill 303 excludes state nonpublic transportation grants from charter school per pupil funding calculations
Last action · March 9, 2026: Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education.Sponsor: Barbara Reich Freiberg
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What This Bill Proposed
Louisiana House Bill 303 excludes state grants provided to school boards for nonpublic school student transportation when calculating per pupil funding amounts for certain charter schools. The measure applies to the computation formulas used to determine local revenue allocations for Type 1, Type 3, Type 3B not acting as its own local education agency, and Type 4 charter schools.
Changes the specific revenue streams factored into charter school funding formulas by separating state-provided nonpublic school transportation funds from local revenue totals used in per-pupil calculations.
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Charter school operators
Local school boards
School boards must alter how local revenues are calculated and apportioned for certain charter schools operating within their districts.
Key Facts
- Excludes any amount granted by the state for the cost of providing transportation to nonpublic school students from local revenues used in computing per pupil funding amounts for certain charter schools.
- Applies to Type 1, Type 3, Type 3B not acting as its own local education agency, and Type 4 charter schools.
- Enacts R.S. 17:3995(A)(1)(b)(v).
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · in House committee.
Procedural history
4 actions- Mar 9, 2026HouseIntroducedRead by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education.
- Feb 27, 2026HouseFirst appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.
- Feb 24, 2026HousePrefiled.
- Feb 24, 2026HouseCommitteeUnder the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education.
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 35)
- Controversy10Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz15Current news / social attention level
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