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LouisianaHB 8212026 Regular SessionHouse

LAW ENFORCEMENT: Provides for the establishment of the Louisiana Center for Safe Schools within the Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Criminal Justice (EN +$250,000 GF EX See Note)

Sponsored By: Jack McFarland (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Judiciary BAdministration of Criminal Justice

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Louisiana schools and nonprofits get safety support

The law creates the Louisiana Center for Safe Schools within the state's law enforcement commission. It takes over school and nonprofit security programs and develops a statewide school safety framework with state education officials. Its work includes safety training, threat assessment, suicide prevention, trauma-informed support, digital safety, and help with school emergency plans. It establishes emergency alerts and anonymous reporting systems, shares safety resources, and coordinates emergency planning with homeland security officials. The center can manage grants, contracts, and safety systems; the bill title lists $250,000 in added state general fund spending. Written privacy and access policies are required, and existing public-records protections for school security information remain. A new advisory council replaces the former security commission, taking over its duties, records, and pending work. Members in matching roles keep their terms; other positions end when the law takes effect. The council recommends safety priorities but cannot spend, contract, buy services, or issue rules; the center handles implementation. Both bodies report annually, with the council's report due July 1, and the state education board keeps its constitutional authority. The law takes effect upon signature or automatically without signature; after a veto override, it takes effect the next day.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Jack McFarland

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 163 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/26/2026

Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 35 • No: 0

House vote • 4/27/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 103, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 103 • No: 0

House vote • 4/21/2026

Reported with amendments

Yes: 14 • No: 0

House vote • 3/31/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 11 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 846.

    6/8/2026House

  2. Effective date: 06/08/2026.

    6/8/2026House

  3. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/27/2026Senate

  4. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/27/2026House

  5. Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/26/2026Senate

  6. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/26/2026House

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

    5/26/2026House

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

    5/20/2026Senate

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

    5/19/2026Senate

  10. Reported favorably.

    5/18/2026Senate

  11. Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.

    5/6/2026Senate

  12. Rules suspended. Reported favorably.

    5/5/2026Senate

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

    4/28/2026Senate

  14. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 103, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/27/2026House

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

    4/27/2026Senate

  16. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/27/2026.

    4/23/2026House

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

    4/22/2026House

  18. Reported with amendments (14-0).

    4/21/2026House

  19. Read by title, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.

    4/1/2026House

  20. Reported favorably (11-0).

    3/31/2026House

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

    3/9/2026House

  22. Prefiled.

    2/27/2026House

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

    2/27/2026House

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

    2/27/2026House

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