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LouisianaHB 6262026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

COLLEGES/UNIVERSITIES: Provides relative to suicide prevention plans at colleges and universities

Sponsored By: Edmond Jordan (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

Education

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

More suicide prevention help for Louisiana students

Louisiana public colleges and universities must offer students trained mental health support 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Support focuses on preventing suicides and attempts and can be on campus, by phone, or through other remote means. Schools must put 988 and its call-or-text explanation on websites and student ID cards, plus available local and state hotlines. All entering students—including full-time, part-time, undergraduate, graduate, professional, and transfer students—must receive information about mental health services, suicide prevention services, and early suicide warning signs. Schools can use presentations, online programs, or videos, but cannot provide this information only on paper.

Colleges must report suicide assessments anonymously

Louisiana public colleges and universities must create and use systems to collect and report data on their suicide risk assessments. Data must include annual assessment totals and student demographics, including race, ethnicity, and gender. Schools must also count students referred to mental health services because of these assessments. All collected and reported data must be grouped together and must not identify individual students.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Edmond Jordan

    Democratic • House

Cosponsors

  • Tehmi Jahi Chassion

    Democratic • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 148 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/27/2026

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 • 3/31/2026

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

Yes: 100 • No: 0

House vote • 3/25/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 14 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 660.

    6/1/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    6/1/2026House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/29/2026House

  4. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/28/2026House

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

    5/28/2026House

  6. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/28/2026Senate

  7. Called from the Calendar.

    5/27/2026Senate

  8. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/27/2026Senate

  9. Rules suspended.

    5/26/2026Senate

  10. Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.

    5/26/2026Senate

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

    5/20/2026Senate

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

    5/19/2026Senate

  13. Reported favorably.

    5/18/2026Senate

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

    4/1/2026Senate

  15. Read by title, returned to the calendar.

    3/31/2026House

  16. Called from the calendar.

    3/31/2026House

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

    3/31/2026House

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

    3/31/2026Senate

  19. Scheduled for floor debate on 03/31/2026.

    3/30/2026House

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

    3/26/2026House

  21. Reported favorably (14-0).

    3/25/2026House

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

    3/9/2026House

  23. Prefiled.

    2/27/2026House

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

    2/27/2026House

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

    2/27/2026House

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