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LouisianaHB 6362026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

COLLEGES/UNIVERSITIES: Provides relative to hazing at public postsecondary education institutions (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

Sponsored By: Vanessa Caston LaFleur (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

Education

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8 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 2 costs, 3 mixed.

Stronger hazing protections for college students

The law bans hazing against students at colleges supported wholly or partly by public funds. It covers intentional, knowing, or reckless acts tied to joining, participating in, or holding office in an organization. The person must know, or reasonably should know, the act risks physical health or safety or causes severe emotional distress. Examples include beatings, dangerous exercise, sleep deprivation, forced consumption, and inducing someone to commit a crime or haze another person. Customary and necessary activities in college-approved programs are excluded.

Hazing education and help for students

Beginning in fall semester 2027, covered colleges must give all students information about hazing dangers and bans each year. New students must also receive it during orientation, and parents or legal guardians must receive it for minor students. Colleges and organizations must give alleged hazing victims information about medical help, reporting resources, and college or community counseling. This requirement does not promise payment for those services.

Public discipline records for campus groups

Covered colleges must publish findings and sanctions for recognized or affiliated organizations found responsible for policy or code violations. Records must name the organization and violated rules, describe the violation, and show its date or term, sanctions, and current status. Updates are due each semester by April 10 and October 10, and whenever violations are decided or sanctions change. Records must remain public for at least the sanction and any probation period. Student names and identifying information must be excluded, and state and federal privacy laws still apply.

Campus groups face reporting and bans

Organizations must report hazing to their college and law enforcement, as required by criminal law, after disciplining a member, representative, or officer. Reporting is also required when they have reason to believe a member participated; parent-group discipline must be reported to the college. Colleges must discipline organizations that fail to report, and must document their responses and make required law-enforcement reports. Colleges may suspend, expel, deactivate, remove recognition from, or otherwise discipline organizations that violate the hazing law. When an organization's violation causes a death, the college must ban it from returning under any name or affiliation.

Noncompliant colleges face two-year borrowing limits

The State Bond Commission cannot authorize covered debt for a college for two years after notice of hazing-law noncompliance. The restriction applies only to institutional debt that requires the commission's approval. It does not limit household borrowing.

Safer reporting with penalties for falsehoods

Covered colleges must offer online confidential or anonymous reporting to anyone who witnesses or knows about hazing, including third parties. Good-faith reporters, investigation helpers, and participants in related proceedings receive protection from discipline for reasonably related rule violations. That protection applies only when suspension or expulsion is not a possible penalty, and excludes anyone who committed or helped commit the hazing. Separately, student reporters receive amnesty for nonviolent conduct violations revealed while reporting in good faith, such as underage drinking. Colleges must sanction anyone their discipline process finds knowingly made a false hazing report with intent to harm or deceive.

Required hazing training for campus groups

Covered organizations must give every member, employee, and volunteer at least two hours of hazing-prevention training each year, in person or electronically. Their annual completion report must identify trained participants and include their attestations; colleges must deactivate campus operations for noncompliance. Organization advisors must complete at least one hour annually before serving, covering laws, policies, reporting duties, and advisor responsibilities. Members of panels deciding hazing cases also need at least one hour annually before serving. Panel training covers hazing signs, laws, policies, trauma-informed practices, fair process, and sanction standards; advisors and panel members must submit reports attesting to completion.

Shared hazing rules for campus organizations

The Board of Regents must work with college management boards to set uniform hazing prevention, reporting, documentation, and publication standards. Management boards must adopt matching policies, and colleges must post policies that include the law's requirements, including victim support. Organizations must adopt their college's policy and give every member and prospective member a written or electronic copy before initiation, acceptance, or participation. Management boards must report to the Regents by January 30 annually; the Regents must report to legislative committees and publish by February 28. The law also repeals Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:1801.1 as part of the revised framework.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Vanessa Caston LaFleur

    Democratic • House

Cosponsors

  • Barbara Carpenter

    Democratic • House

  • Beth Anne Billings

    Republican • House

  • Roy Daryl Adams

    Democratic • House

  • Delisha Boyd

    Democratic • House

  • Dennis Bamburg Jr.

    Republican • House

  • Emily Chenevert

    Republican • House

  • Josh Carlson

    Republican • House

  • Ken Brass

    Democratic • House

  • Kim Carver

    Republican • House

  • Larry A. Bagley

    Republican • House

  • Michael Robert Bayham Jr.

    Republican • House

  • Phillip DeVillier

    Republican • House

  • R. Dewith Carrier

    Republican • House

  • Reese "Skip" Broussard

    Republican • House

  • Ryan Bourriaque

    Republican • House

  • Stephanie H. Berault

    Republican • House

  • Tehmi Jahi Chassion

    Democratic • House

  • Vincent E. Cox III

    Republican • House

  • Wilford Carter Sr.

    Democratic • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 155 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/18/2026

Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 37 • No: 0

House vote • 3/31/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 104, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 104 • No: 0

House vote • 3/25/2026

Reported with amendments

Yes: 14 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 309.

    5/22/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    5/22/2026House

  3. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/19/2026House

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

    5/19/2026House

  5. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/19/2026Senate

  6. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/19/2026House

  7. Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/18/2026Senate

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

    5/13/2026Senate

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

    5/12/2026Senate

  10. Reported favorably.

    5/11/2026Senate

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

    4/1/2026Senate

  12. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 104, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    3/31/2026House

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

    3/31/2026Senate

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

    3/30/2026House

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

    3/26/2026House

  16. Reported with amendments (14-0).

    3/25/2026House

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

    3/9/2026House

  18. Prefiled.

    2/27/2026House

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

    2/27/2026House

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

    2/27/2026House

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