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LouisianaSB 1782025 Regular SessionSenateWALLET

SCHOOLS: Establishes the School Employee Bill of Rights. (gov sig)

Sponsored By: Sam Jenkins (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

Education

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Pay and workplace protections for school employees

Louisiana's School Employee Bill of Rights protects public school employees' pay, safety, and workplace respect. Hourly wages or annual salaries cannot fall below the previous school year's amount or be cut during an academic year. Employees have rights to additional pay, including substitute-teacher pay, as provided by existing laws and applicable local rules. Existing laws govern protection from frivolous lawsuits, qualified immunity, and school-board legal defense and payment of covered legal costs. Required job training must be completed and documented before employees perform those duties. Medical procedures and medication duties require the safeguards and records required by state law. Employees also have rights to professional development, career advancement, and freedom from excessive paperwork beyond lawful documentation requirements.

School staff gain stronger discipline protections

Louisiana public school staff can discipline students who break rules or disrupt learning, while following adopted school-board policies. Principals and administrators cannot block, discourage, or punish staff for taking or recommending discipline that follows those policies. School boards cannot adopt policies blocking these employee rights, and administrators cannot retaliate against employees for using them. The rights protect professional judgment and employee input but do not override state law or applicable state and local policies. Each city and parish school board's discipline review committee grows from 16 to 17 members, adding a paraprofessional elected by peers.

Schools must share employee rights notices

Louisiana public school boards must give employees the rights notice at each school year's start and provide copies to parents or guardians. Copies must use a board-approved form or method, with prominent postings in each school and administrative building. Boards and schools that maintain websites must also post the rights online. Boards need not buy displays with their own funds; they must accept donated money or displays to obtain them free. The State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education must adopt rules to carry out the law.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Sam Jenkins

    Democratic • Senate

Cosponsors

  • Adrian Fisher

    Democratic • House

  • Barbara Reich Freiberg

    Republican • House

  • Candace N. Newell

    Democratic • House

  • Roy Daryl Adams

    Democratic • House

  • Jason Hughes

    Affiliation unavailable

  • Joy Walters

    Democratic • House

  • Kathy Edmonston

    Republican • House

  • Mandie Landry

    Democratic • House

  • Marcus Anthony Bryant

    Democratic • House

  • Matthew Willard

    Affiliation unavailable

  • Michael Robert Bayham Jr.

    Republican • House

  • Neil Riser

    Republican • House

  • Phillip DeVillier

    Republican • House

  • Rashid Armand Young

    Democratic • House

  • Rodney Lyons

    Democratic • House

  • Shaun Raphael Mena

    Democratic • House

  • Steven Jackson

    Democratic • House

  • Vanessa Caston LaFleur

    Democratic • House

  • Wilford Carter Sr.

    Democratic • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 134 • No: 8

House vote • 6/4/2025

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 7. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 90 • No: 7

House vote • 5/28/2025

Reported with amendments

Yes: 8 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/20/2025

Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 1 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 36 • No: 1

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 439.

    6/20/2025Senate

  2. Effective date 6/20/2025.

    6/20/2025Senate

  3. Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate.

    6/11/2025Senate

  4. Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    6/10/2025Senate

  5. Signed by the Speaker of the House.

    6/10/2025House

  6. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 7. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

    6/4/2025House

  7. Received from the House with amendments.

    6/4/2025Senate

  8. Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.

    6/2/2025House

  9. Scheduled for floor debate on 06/04/2025.

    6/2/2025House

  10. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.

    5/29/2025House

  11. Reported with amendments (8-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    5/28/2025House

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

    5/21/2025House

  13. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 1 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/20/2025Senate

  14. Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.

    5/20/2025House

  15. Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.

    5/19/2025Senate

  16. Rules suspended. Reported with amendments.

    5/14/2025Senate

  17. Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Education.

    4/14/2025Senate

  18. Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Education.

    4/4/2025Senate

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