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LouisianaHB 3152026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

CONTRACTS: Provides relative to noncompete contracts or agreements for interns and apprentices

Sponsored By: Michael Melerine (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Labor and Industrial Relations

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Interns and apprentices gain job freedom

Louisiana employers cannot use agreements to stop covered paid or unpaid interns or apprentices from taking similar jobs or running similar businesses. Agreements also cannot limit their job, education, or professional opportunities after the internship or apprenticeship ends. Covered interns must be student learners in internships authorized and regulated under LAC 28:CXV.3113 or replacement internship rules from the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. Interns and apprentices remain bound by their employer’s confidentiality, intellectual property, and data protection agreements.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Michael Melerine

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 141 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/12/2026

Rules suspended. 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 • 4/15/2026

Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 95 • No: 0

House vote • 4/9/2026

Reported with amendments

Yes: 11 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 150.

    5/15/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    5/15/2026House

  3. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/14/2026Senate

  4. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/14/2026House

  5. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/13/2026House

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

    5/13/2026House

  7. Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/12/2026Senate

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

    5/5/2026Senate

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

    5/4/2026Senate

  10. Reported favorably.

    4/29/2026Senate

  11. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations.

    4/21/2026Senate

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

    4/20/2026Senate

  13. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/15/2026House

  14. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/15/2026.

    4/14/2026House

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

    4/13/2026House

  16. Reported with amendments (11-0).

    4/9/2026House

  17. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations.

    3/9/2026House

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

    2/27/2026House

  19. Prefiled.

    2/24/2026House

  20. Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations.

    2/24/2026House

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