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LouisianaHB 2832026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

SCHOOLS: Provides relative to incidents of assault and battery on students and school employees (EN INCREASE LF EX See Note)

Sponsored By: Candace N. Newell (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

Education

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

School workers gain broader sick leave uses

Eligible Louisiana public-school teachers, bus operators, and covered employees can use existing sick leave for medical treatment, psychological treatment, and physical rehabilitation. The law does not add more leave days. At each school year's start, schools must give teachers and employees, including bus operators, written notice of their rights. The notice explains student discipline rights and sick and personal leave eligibility after injury from a student's assault or battery.

School hiring protections limit legal claims

Louisiana public school boards, nonpublic schools, and school systems gain protection from negligent-hiring claims for specified credentialed hires. Covered jobs are administrators, teachers, substitute teachers, athletic directors, coaches, and assistant coaches. The hired person must hold a valid teaching certificate or authorization from Louisiana's Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. Negligent-hiring laws and rules do not apply to claims arising from those hires, limiting legal options for people bringing claims.

School staff protection brings stricter student discipline

Principals must immediately suspend students formally accused of assaulting or battering school employees, remove them, or bar their return. This protection includes substitute teachers, substitute bus operators, and volunteers. Off-campus incidents qualify only when they continue a documented altercation that began on school property. Required notices and procedures must follow as soon as practicable. After a guilty finding in court or a school suspension hearing, principals must immediately recommend expulsion. Superintendents must expel students for at least two full school semesters, provide alternative schooling, and require anger management. Expelled students cannot attend their assigned school or the victim's assigned school; state and federal special-education protections still apply. Schools must keep incident, discipline, placement, and program records in the student's records.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Candace N. Newell

    Democratic • House

Cosponsors

  • Aimee Adatto Freeman

    Democratic • House

  • C. Denise Marcelle

    Democratic • House

  • Charles Owen

    Republican • House

  • Chasity Martinez

    Democratic • House

  • Dana Henry

    Democratic • House

  • Delisha Boyd

    Democratic • House

  • Dustin Miller

    Democratic • House

  • Ed Larvadain III

    Democratic • House

  • Ed Murray

    Democratic • House

  • Kyle M. Green Jr.

    Democratic • House

  • Marcus Anthony Bryant

    Democratic • House

  • Sylvia Elaine Taylor

    Democratic • House

  • Tammy T. Phelps

    Democratic • House

  • Terry Landry Jr.

    Democratic • House

  • Vanessa Caston LaFleur

    Democratic • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 242 • No: 0

House vote • 5/26/2026

Read by title, roll called, yeas 98, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.

Yes: 98 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/19/2026

Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 34 • No: 0

House vote • 4/8/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 98 • No: 0

House vote • 3/31/2026

Reported with amendments

Yes: 12 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 539.

    5/29/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    5/29/2026House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/28/2026House

  4. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/27/2026Senate

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

    5/27/2026House

  6. Read by title, roll called, yeas 98, 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.

    5/20/2026House

  9. Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/19/2026Senate

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

    5/13/2026Senate

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

    5/12/2026Senate

  12. Reported with amendments.

    5/11/2026Senate

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

    4/13/2026Senate

  14. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/8/2026House

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

    4/8/2026Senate

  16. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/08/2026.

    4/7/2026House

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

    4/1/2026House

  18. Reported with amendments (12-0).

    3/31/2026House

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

    3/9/2026House

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

    2/27/2026House

  21. Prefiled.

    2/23/2026House

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

    2/23/2026House

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