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LouisianaHB 2182026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

SCHOOLS: Requires the inclusion of questions pertaining to food insecurity on a residency questionnaire administered to public school students (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

Sponsored By: Vanessa Caston LaFleur (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

Education

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

Louisiana schools connect families with food resources

Louisiana's education department must work with its health department to add food insecurity questions to the student residency questionnaire. This is the questionnaire used under the federal McKinney-Vento program for homeless students. Public schools, including charter schools, must distribute it annually to all students in kindergarten through grade 12. Triggers include enrollment, address changes, and reasonable suspicion of food insecurity by school staff or school-based health clinics. When answers show a student is at risk, schools must give parents or legal guardians information about food help. Adult students and emancipated minors receive the information directly. It includes public assistance applications, social services, food banks, food pantries, and school meal programs. The health department must compile resource information and provide it free to schools and school boards. Answers are confidential and may be shared only with parents or guardians, adult or emancipated students, and authorized resource staff. School staff cannot use answers to decide instruction, academic opportunities, or discipline. The law provides information, not cash benefits or guaranteed eligibility for assistance.

Families face limits on school damages claims

School boards and their employees are shielded from civil damages for acts or failures to act tied to these questionnaire rules. This covers claims involving injury, death, or loss to a person or property. The protection does not apply to willful or wanton misconduct.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Vanessa Caston LaFleur

    Democratic • House

Cosponsors

  • Adrian Fisher

    Democratic • House

  • Aimee Adatto Freeman

    Democratic • House

  • Alonzo L. Knox

    Democratic • House

  • Barbara Carpenter

    Democratic • House

  • Barbara Reich Freiberg

    Republican • House

  • Dana Henry

    Democratic • House

  • Delisha Boyd

    Democratic • House

  • Ed Larvadain III

    Democratic • House

  • Edmond Jordan

    Democratic • House

  • Kathy Edmonston

    Republican • House

  • Ken Brass

    Democratic • House

  • Kim Carver

    Republican • House

  • Kyle M. Green Jr.

    Democratic • House

  • Michael Charles Echols

    Republican • House

  • Mike Johnson

    Republican • House

  • Rodney Lyons

    Democratic • House

  • Steven Jackson

    Democratic • House

  • Tehmi Jahi Chassion

    Democratic • House

  • Terry Landry Jr.

    Democratic • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 233 • No: 8

House vote • 5/29/2026

Read by title, roll called, yeas 93, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.

Yes: 93 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/25/2026

Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 37 • No: 0

House vote • 3/31/2026

Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, nays 8. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 91 • No: 8

House vote • 3/25/2026

Reported with amendments

Yes: 12 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 628.

    6/2/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    6/2/2026House

  3. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    6/1/2026Senate

  4. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    6/1/2026House

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

    5/31/2026House

  6. Read by title, roll called, yeas 93, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.

    5/29/2026House

  7. Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2026.

    5/27/2026House

  8. Received from the Senate with amendments.

    5/26/2026House

  9. Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/25/2026Senate

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

    5/20/2026Senate

  11. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    5/19/2026Senate

  12. Reported with amendments.

    5/18/2026Senate

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

    4/7/2026Senate

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

    4/1/2026Senate

  15. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, nays 8. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    3/31/2026House

  16. Scheduled for floor debate on 03/31/2026.

    3/30/2026House

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

    3/26/2026House

  18. Reported with amendments (12-0).

    3/25/2026House

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

    3/9/2026House

  20. First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/20/2026.

    2/20/2026House

  21. Prefiled.

    2/19/2026House

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

    2/19/2026House

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