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LouisianaHB 6222026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

CRIMINAL/RECORDS: Provides relative to the confidentiality of criminal history records

Sponsored By: Kimberly Landry Coates (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Judiciary BAdministration of Criminal Justice

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Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Covered employers must get background checks

Employers covered by this Louisiana law must obtain criminal history and security checks. Checks must follow R.S. 15:587(B) and (F), R.S. 40:1203.2, or other applicable law. The law states no check cost or household payment. Its criminal-record rules are intended to ensure compliance with state and federal requirements, including federal criminal-record regulations and FBI security policy.

New privacy limits for workers' records

Covered employees' criminal records can be shared only by court order or written consent directing the appropriate law enforcement agency to release them. Employers cannot send copies of criminal checks to other employers seeking referrals of potential applicants. The law also removes this section's requirement to destroy records within one year. It does not authorize further sharing of criminal history information obtained from the FBI. State criminal history information must be kept and shared according to state law.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Kimberly Landry Coates

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 245 • No: 0

House vote • 5/26/2026

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

Yes: 99 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/18/2026

Rules suspended. The amended bill was 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 • 4/21/2026

Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 100 • No: 0

House vote • 4/14/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 10 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 659.

    6/2/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    6/2/2026House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/28/2026House

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

    5/27/2026House

  5. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/27/2026Senate

  6. Read by title, roll called, yeas 99, 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.

    5/19/2026House

  9. Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/18/2026Senate

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

    5/7/2026Senate

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

    5/6/2026Senate

  12. Rules suspended. Reported with amendments.

    5/5/2026Senate

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

    4/27/2026Senate

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

    4/22/2026Senate

  15. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/21/2026House

  16. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/21/2026.

    4/20/2026House

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

    4/15/2026House

  18. Reported favorably (10-0).

    4/14/2026House

  19. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.

    3/9/2026House

  20. Prefiled.

    2/27/2026House

  21. Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.

    2/27/2026House

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

    2/27/2026House

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