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LouisianaHB 11462026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

EARLY CHILDHOOD: Provides relative to the Advisory Council on Early Childhood Care and Education and the Early Childhood Care and Education Commission

Sponsored By: John E. Wyble (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Education

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

1 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.

More child care oversight for families

Louisiana’s early childhood commission must recommend a statewide care and education plan for children from birth through age four. Its work covers coordination, quality supports, funding needs and priorities, family child care providers, and goals with timelines. The education department must consult the Commission and share federal child care funding plans, budgets, and amendments before submitting them. It must also share covered proposed rules before state education board review. Emergency rules skip regular advance consultation, but the department must notify the Commission when the meeting is publicly announced and provide a draft. The Commission must meet at least quarterly, up from twice yearly, with department updates on its recommendations at each meeting. These changes do not themselves add funding, change eligibility, or lower families’ child care bills.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • John E. Wyble

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 137 • No: 4

Senate vote • 5/20/2026

Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 33 • No: 0

House vote • 4/20/2026

Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 96 • No: 0

House vote • 4/8/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 8 • No: 4

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 580.

    5/29/2026House

  2. Effective date: 05/29/2026.

    5/29/2026House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/26/2026House

  4. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/25/2026House

  5. Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.

    5/25/2026House

  6. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/25/2026Senate

  7. Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/20/2026Senate

  8. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.

    5/13/2026Senate

  9. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    5/12/2026Senate

  10. Reported favorably.

    5/11/2026Senate

  11. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education.

    4/22/2026Senate

  12. Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

    4/21/2026Senate

  13. Called from the calendar.

    4/20/2026House

  14. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/20/2026House

  15. Read by title, returned to the calendar.

    4/14/2026House

  16. Notice given.

    4/14/2026House

  17. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/20/2026.

    4/14/2026House

  18. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/14/2026.

    4/13/2026House

  19. Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.

    4/9/2026House

  20. Reported favorably (8-4).

    4/8/2026House

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

    4/1/2026House

  22. Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

    3/31/2026House

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