All Roll Calls
Yes: 312 • No: 43
LouisianaHB 4142026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET
HEALTH: Provides for prohibitions on hiring individuals with certain criminal convictions
Sponsored By: Emily Chenevert (Republican)
Signed by Governor
Health and Welfare
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Bill Overview
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6 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 2 costs, 2 mixed.
Convictions limit healthcare jobs, with exceptions
Beginning October 1, 2026, employers cannot hire covered nonlicensed healthcare workers whose checks reveal listed convictions. Employers must immediately end covered employment when a check reveals one. Covered crimes include sexual offenses, violence, abuse, neglect, exploitation, specified drug distribution crimes, and similar federal or out-of-state offenses. Exceptions preserve eligibility for people whose convictions were pardoned or expunged, and the law keeps temporary-work exceptions. A prior-waiver exception requires a waiver under law in effect before August 15, 2010, employment before that date, and continued work for the same employer.
Some healthcare workers escape screening rules
The law removes licensed ambulance personnel from these criminal-history screening and related hiring and termination rules. Employees working within their job duties are also excluded when they provide no direct care or health-related services. This includes cafeteria, maintenance, janitorial, and groundskeeping staff who do not provide covered services.
Healthcare workers can start supervised conditional work
Nonlicensed workers can start conditional work while a background check awaits final results or clarification. The early review must show no listed conviction, and workers must be supervised. Unresolved matches must be limited to allowed traffic, parking, administrative, nonviolent misdemeanor, or identity-verification matters. Nonviolent misdemeanors involving abuse or exploitation do not qualify for this allowance. Employers must immediately remove workers from direct-service duties if the final report reveals a disqualifying offense.
Hospitals gain another background check option
Hospitals can use the existing background-check process or a qualifying consumer reporting agency. The agency must hold Professional Background Screening Association accreditation, or equivalent accreditation from its successor. Its report must search criminal court records wherever the applicant lived during the past three years, plus federal criminal records. It must also search the national sex offender registry, use multiple personal identifiers, and follow federal credit-reporting law.
Group home owners face broader screening
Beginning October 1, 2026, screening rules cover anyone who owns any part of a therapeutic group home. They also cover people with authority over the home's business operations or client care. The expanded checks include the Louisiana Department of Health's child abuse and neglect central registry.
Healthcare employers must document required checks
The law centralizes background checks for covered nonlicensed nursing, health-related, and direct-service workers. Employers and contracting entities must obtain checks before hiring or contracting, except for the allowed temporary or conditional work. State searches cost $26 and cover state and federal records and the national sex offender registry; fingerprinting is allowed. Employers must get written consent to release criminal-history information and warn applicants that knowingly giving false criminal-history information is a crime. Employers must keep records showing they followed the screening rules.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Emily Chenevert
Republican • House
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 6/1/2026
Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 27 yeas and 8 nays.
Yes: 27 • No: 8
House vote • 6/1/2026
Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 70, nays 20. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
Yes: 70 • No: 20
House vote • 5/27/2026
Read by title, roll called, yeas 93, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
Yes: 93 • No: 0
Senate vote • 5/21/2026
Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 26 yeas and 10 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
Yes: 26 • No: 10
House vote • 4/22/2026
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 83, nays 5. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
Yes: 83 • No: 5
House vote • 4/15/2026
Reported with amendments
Yes: 13 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 802.
6/9/2026HouseEffective date: See Act.
6/9/2026HouseSent to the Governor for executive approval.
6/4/2026HouseConference Committee report received.
6/1/2026HouseRules suspended.
6/1/2026HouseConference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 70, nays 20. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
6/1/2026HouseNotice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
6/1/2026SenateConference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 27 yeas and 8 nays.
6/1/2026SenateNotice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
6/1/2026HouseEnrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
6/1/2026HouseSigned by the President of the Senate on 6/2/2026.
6/1/2026SenateNotice of Senate conferees appointed.
5/29/2026HouseHouse conferees appointed: Chenevert, Miller, and Spell.
5/28/2026HouseSenate conference committee members appointed: Cloud, Kleinpeter, and Morris.
5/28/2026SenateNotice House Conference Committee members appointed.
5/28/2026SenateRead by title, roll called, yeas 93, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
5/27/2026HouseNotice House rejected the Senate amendments.
5/27/2026SenateScheduled for concurrence on 05/27/2026.
5/26/2026HouseReceived from the Senate with amendments.
5/25/2026HouseRules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 26 yeas and 10 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
5/21/2026SenateReported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
5/18/2026SenateCommittee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
5/14/2026SenateReported with amendments.
5/13/2026SenateRead second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.
4/27/2026SenateRead third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 83, nays 5. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
4/22/2026House
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