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LouisianaHB 2202026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS: Provides relative to reporting child exploitation on covered platforms (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

Sponsored By: Laurie Schlegel (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Commerce, Consumer Protection and International AffairsCommerce

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Clearer child exploitation reporting for users

Covered online services must provide clear instructions and visible, easy-to-use tools for reporting suspected child sexual abuse material and related exploitation. They must confirm receipt and cannot make reporting hard for a reasonable user. Reports must be accepted without an account unless registration is required to access any features or content. Coverage includes qualifying social platforms, online games, messaging apps, and streaming services that host user-created content. Covered services must also follow federal child sexual abuse reporting and record-preservation rules. Exclusions cover internet and common carriers, email, certain private conferencing and direct-message services, nonprofits, K–12 schools, and public libraries. Other exclusions cover qualifying news and sports sites, business software and collaboration tools, virtual private networks, and government-domain entities. Services mainly providing technical support and streams with provider-selected content are also excluded. Coverage is limited for platforms that do not knowingly allow sexually explicit uploads and maintain reasonable safeguards against their spread.

Platform fines fund child exploitation investigations

Louisiana's attorney general can investigate violations but must give platforms at least 30 days to comply before suing. Cases go to the Nineteenth Judicial District Court in East Baton Rouge Parish. Courts can impose civil fines up to $5,000 per day for each violation. Missing a required reporting tool can bring an additional fine up to $10,000 per violation. The attorney general can count violations separately or combine them. Platforms may also owe investigation and court costs, expenses, attorney fees, and legal interest from the penalty's imposition until payment. Fine payments go to the Louisiana Department of Justice to fund child-exploitation cybercrime investigations. These penalties are civil; this law does not create criminal liability for platforms or users.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Laurie Schlegel

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 238 • No: 0

House vote • 5/26/2026

Read by title, roll called, yeas 91, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.

Yes: 91 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/18/2026

Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 35 • No: 0

House vote • 4/7/2026

Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 97 • No: 0

House vote • 3/30/2026

Reported with amendments

Yes: 15 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 535.

    5/29/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    5/29/2026House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/28/2026House

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

    5/27/2026House

  5. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/27/2026Senate

  6. Read by title, roll called, yeas 91, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.

    5/26/2026House

  7. Scheduled for concurrence on 05/26/2026.

    5/25/2026House

  8. Received from the Senate with amendments.

    5/19/2026House

  9. Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/18/2026Senate

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

    5/11/2026Senate

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

    5/7/2026Senate

  12. Reported with amendments.

    5/6/2026Senate

  13. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs.

    4/13/2026Senate

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

    4/8/2026Senate

  15. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/7/2026House

  16. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/07/2026.

    4/1/2026House

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

    3/31/2026House

  18. Reported with amendments (15-0).

    3/30/2026House

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

    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 Commerce.

    2/19/2026House

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