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HB113 • 2026

SCHOOLS: Provides for retroactive application of the uniform 10-point grading scale requirement to the grades of students who were enrolled in the ninth grade during the 2023-2024 school year (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

SCHOOLS: Provides for retroactive application of the uniform 10-point grading scale requirement to the grades of students who were enrolled in the ninth grade during the 2023-2024 school year (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

Education
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Tammy Phelps
Last action
2026-03-09
Official status
Pending House Education - Considered 4/8/26
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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SCHOOLS: Provides for retroactive application of the uniform 10-point grading scale requirement to the grades of students who were enrolled in the ninth grade during the 2023-2024 school year (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

SCHOOLS: Provides for retroactive application of the uniform 10-point grading scale requirement to the grades of students who were enrolled in the ninth grade during the 2023-2024 school year (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

What This Bill Does

  • SCHOOLS: Provides for retroactive application of the uniform 10-point grading scale requirement to the grades of students who were enrolled in the ninth grade during the 2023-2024 school year (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-03-09 H

    Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education.

  2. 2026-02-13 H

    First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/13/2026.

  3. 2026-02-10 H

    Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education.

  4. 2026-02-10 H

    Prefiled.

Official Summary Text

SCHOOLS: Provides for retroactive application of the uniform 10-point grading scale requirement to the grades of students who were enrolled in the ninth grade during the 2023-2024 school year (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

Current Bill Text

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HLS 26RS-216 ORIGINAL
2026 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 113
BY REPRESENTATIVE PHELPS
SCHOOLS: Provides for retroactive application of the uniform 10-point grading scale
requirement to the grades of students who were enrolled in the ninth grade during the
2023-2024 school year
1 AN ACT
2 To provide that the provisions of R.S. 17:184, as enacted by Act No. 428 of the 2024
3 Regular Session of the Legislature, shall have retroactive application to the grades
4 assigned to certain students; to require that the grades assigned to such students
5 during a certain school year be recalculated; to provide for applicability; and to
6 provide for related matters.
7 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
8 Section 1. (A) The provisions of R.S. 17:184, as enacted by Act No. 428 of the 2024
9 Regular Session of the Legislature, shall have retroactive application to the grades assigned
10 to students who were enrolled in the ninth grade during the 2023-2024 school year. Each
11 public school governing authority shall recalculate any grades assigned for those students
12 during that school year that were not calculated on the ten-point grading scale as provided
13 in that Section, and the recalculation shall use the same percentage values that were
14 originally assigned by the teacher when final grades were initially given. The letter grade
15 assigned for each course based on the ten-point grading scale shall be used for all purposes,
16 including but not limited to the calculation of a student's cumulative grade point average.
17 (B) The provisions of Paragraph (A) of this Section shall also apply to charter
18 schools as provided in R.S. 17:3996(B)(86).
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HLS 26RS-216 ORIGINAL
HB NO. 113
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 113 Original 2026 Regular Session Phelps
Abstract: Provides for retroactive application of the uniform 10-point grading school
requirement to the grades of students who were enrolled in the ninth grade during the
2023-2024 school year.
Present law requires each public school governing authority to use a uniform 10-point
grading scale. Present law became effective on Aug. 1, 2024, and was therefore applicable
beginning with the 2024-2025 school year.
Proposed law provides that present law has retroactive application to students who were
enrolled in the ninth grade during the 2023-2024 school year (the graduating class of the
2026-2027 school year). Requires the recalculation of grades earned by ninth graders during
that school year using the present law 10-point scale.
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