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LouisianaHB 8182026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

STUDENT/ASSESSMENT: Provides relative to student assessments (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)

Sponsored By: Neil Riser (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Education

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Louisiana parents get school test schedules

Beginning in 2026–2027, Louisiana’s Education Department must post an accessible, downloadable statewide test schedule by August 1 each year. It covers tests and screeners required by federal law, state law, or State Board rules—not local-only tests. Schools must post a link and matching PDF within 10 business days after the department posts or updates its schedule. By November 1, school authorities must also post a PDF schedule of locally required tests, including benchmarks and progress checks. Both schedules must show test names, vendors, grades or student groups, subjects, delivery methods, dates, frequency, and estimated testing minutes. They must identify what requires each test and show both minutes per test and total yearly minutes per student. State schedules must include make-up windows; local schedules must explain test types, purposes, uses, expected results dates, and overlap with other tests. Local testing windows can include nonconsecutive school days. Parents must receive the statewide schedule and local schedule covering their child’s grade, courses, and student group within 10 business days after posting. School authorities must email parents as soon as possible when schedules change. The department must update its schedule within 10 business days after changes to requirements, dates, frequency, or time estimates. Schedules must stay publicly accessible throughout the school year and exclude identifying student information and individual results. The department must provide standard templates and implementation materials before 2026–2027.

Louisiana schools must publish test reviews

Beginning in 2026–2027, Louisiana public school authorities must post an annual local test review by November 1. The review must appear on the same website as the local test schedule and go to the Education Department. For each local test, it must explain testing time, purpose, use of results, results timing, and duplication. It must say whether the review led to keeping, reducing, combining, replacing, or ending the test. The law does not require schools to reduce or remove any test. School authorities must submit their posted schedule information and website addresses using department forms and deadlines. The department must compile submissions and send them to the House and Senate Education Committees by December 20 each year. It must publish the compiled PDF by January 15 and annually publish an inventory of federally and state-required tests and screeners. Reports, submissions, compilations, and inventories must exclude identifying student information and individual results. The State Board may adopt rules to carry out the law.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Neil Riser

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

  • Tehmi Jahi Chassion

    Democratic • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 147 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/26/2026

Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 38 • No: 0

House vote • 5/6/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 98 • No: 0

House vote • 4/29/2026

Reported with amendments

Yes: 11 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 674.

    6/2/2026House

  2. Effective date: 06/02/2026.

    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. Rules suspended.

    5/26/2026Senate

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

    5/26/2026Senate

  8. Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.

    5/26/2026Senate

  9. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/26/2026Senate

  10. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/26/2026House

  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.

    5/7/2026Senate

  15. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    5/6/2026House

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

    5/6/2026Senate

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

    5/5/2026House

  18. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/06/2026.

    5/5/2026House

  19. Reported with amendments (11-0).

    4/29/2026House

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

    3/9/2026House

  21. Prefiled.

    2/27/2026House

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

    2/27/2026House

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

    2/27/2026House

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