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LouisianaHB 2562026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

SCHOOLS/EMPLOYEES: Provides that school employees are subject to existing requirements pertaining to mandatory reporters, including certain training provided by the Department of Children and Family Services

Sponsored By: Aimee Adatto Freeman (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

Education

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

School employees must follow child-abuse reporting rules

Louisiana school employees who meet the state's legal definition of mandatory reporters must follow all state mandatory-reporting requirements. These include reporting suspected child abuse or neglect and completing required training, including certain Department of Children and Family Services training. Charter school employees are also covered; charter schools' general exemptions from public school rules do not remove these duties.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Aimee Adatto Freeman

    Democratic • House

Cosponsors

  • Alonzo L. Knox

    Democratic • House

  • Barbara Reich Freiberg

    Republican • House

  • Chasity Martinez

    Democratic • House

  • Ed Murray

    Democratic • House

  • Francis C. Thompson

    Republican • House

  • Joy Walters

    Democratic • House

  • Kathy Edmonston

    Republican • House

  • Kim Carver

    Republican • House

  • Laurie Schlegel

    Republican • House

  • Michael Robert Bayham Jr.

    Republican • House

  • Pat Moore

    Democratic • House

  • Rodney Lyons

    Democratic • House

  • Sylvia Elaine Taylor

    Democratic • House

  • Tehmi Jahi Chassion

    Democratic • House

  • Vanessa Caston LaFleur

    Democratic • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 149 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/25/2026

Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 36 • No: 0

House vote • 3/30/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 99 • No: 0

House vote • 3/24/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 14 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 631.

    6/2/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    6/2/2026House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/27/2026House

  4. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/26/2026House

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

    5/26/2026House

  6. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/26/2026Senate

  7. Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/25/2026Senate

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

    5/20/2026Senate

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

    5/19/2026Senate

  10. Reported favorably.

    5/18/2026Senate

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

    3/31/2026Senate

  12. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    3/30/2026House

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

    3/30/2026Senate

  14. Scheduled for floor debate on 03/30/2026.

    3/26/2026House

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

    3/25/2026House

  16. Reported favorably (14-0).

    3/24/2026House

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

    3/9/2026House

  18. First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.

    2/27/2026House

  19. Prefiled.

    2/23/2026House

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

    2/23/2026House

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