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LouisianaHB 3422026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

EDUCATION/SPECIAL: Provides that a local education agency shall have the burden of proof in any special education due process hearing relative to the appropriateness of a student's current or proposed program or placement (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)

Sponsored By: Alonzo L. Knox (Democratic)

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Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Stronger hearing protections for special education families

In Louisiana special education due process hearings, local education agencies must prove that a student's program or placement is appropriate. This covers the student's current program or placement and any program or placement the agency proposes. The agency must both provide evidence and make a convincing case under a preponderance-of-the-evidence standard, meaning more likely than not. This strengthens families' hearing protections but does not guarantee a particular outcome.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Alonzo L. Knox

    Democratic • House

Cosponsors

  • Adrian Fisher

    Democratic • House

  • Barbara Carpenter

    Democratic • House

  • Barbara Reich Freiberg

    Republican • House

  • Beryl Amedée

    Republican • House

  • C. Travis Johnson

    Democratic • House

  • Roy Daryl Adams

    Democratic • House

  • Delisha Boyd

    Democratic • House

  • Edmond Jordan

    Democratic • House

  • Emily Chenevert

    Republican • House

  • Kathy Edmonston

    Republican • House

  • Kim Carver

    Republican • House

  • Kyle M. Green Jr.

    Democratic • House

  • Michael Robert Bayham Jr.

    Republican • House

  • Peter F. Egan Sr.

    Republican • House

  • Reese "Skip" Broussard

    Republican • House

  • Stephanie H. Berault

    Republican • House

  • Steven Jackson

    Democratic • House

  • Tehmi Jahi Chassion

    Democratic • House

  • Wilford Carter Sr.

    Democratic • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 244 • No: 2

House vote • 5/29/2026

Read by title, roll called, yeas 99, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.

Yes: 99 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/27/2026

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 • 4/14/2026

Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 2. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 99 • No: 2

House vote • 4/8/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 11 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Becomes Act No. 943 without the Governor's signature.

    6/23/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    6/23/2026House

  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. Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2026.

    5/29/2026House

  7. Read by title, roll called, yeas 99, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.

    5/29/2026House

  8. Received from the Senate with amendments.

    5/28/2026House

  9. 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.

    5/27/2026Senate

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

    5/26/2026Senate

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

    5/25/2026Senate

  12. Reported with amendments.

    5/21/2026Senate

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

    4/20/2026Senate

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

    4/15/2026Senate

  15. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 2. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/14/2026House

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

    4/13/2026House

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

    4/9/2026House

  18. Reported favorably (11-0).

    4/8/2026House

  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.

    2/24/2026House

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

    2/24/2026House

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