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LouisianaSB 2882026 Regular SessionSenateWALLET

IDENTITY DATA: Provides relative to background checks. (8/1/26) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

Sponsored By: Mike Reese (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Administration of Criminal JusticeJudiciary B

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

4 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 3 mixed.

Colleges receive state and national checks

Beginning August 1, 2026, Louisiana colleges and other postsecondary schools receive state and national records for requested background checks. This applies when they obtain an applicant's or prospective employee's fingerprints and submit the needed identifying information. Louisiana's criminal-records bureau sends the fingerprints to the FBI for the national check. The bureau must provide prior arrests for sex offenses, offenses against minors, and listed violent crimes. Covered records also include convictions dismissed under Louisiana's criminal procedure rules.

Limited access to expunged screening records

Beginning August 1, 2026, Louisiana's criminal-records bureau provides state records to qualified organizations through its volunteer and employee screening system. For national checks, it sends fingerprints to the FBI. The bureau may also share expunged state records with a public qualified organization, but sharing is not automatic. The organization must show strong evidence that access would best protect the children, older adults, or people with disabilities it serves. Private qualified organizations cannot receive expunged records.

Changed background checks for job applicants

Beginning August 1, 2026, employers or their representatives can request Louisiana conviction records with an applicant's signed consent. The request must be written and include the proper consent form; applicants must be fingerprinted or submit fingerprints. Louisiana's criminal-records bureau no longer must send those fingerprints to the FBI for a national check. Records released through this process cannot include expunged records, and the bureau is protected from civil or criminal liability for releasing them. Processing fees are authorized.

Fingerprint checks for private security licenses

Beginning August 1, 2026, Louisiana private security license applicants must provide fingerprints for an FBI national background check. The licensing board has access to their state criminal-history and identification records. Fingerprints and the national check are used to decide eligibility or suitability for a license. These requirements no longer cover registration applicants. The law allows processing fees for these checks.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Mike Reese

    Republican • Senate

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 140 • No: 0

House vote • 5/19/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 94 • No: 0

House vote • 5/12/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 10 • No: 0

Senate vote • 4/7/2026

Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 36 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 483.

    5/29/2026Senate

  2. Effective date 8/1/2026.

    5/29/2026Senate

  3. Signed by the Speaker of the House.

    5/25/2026House

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

    5/21/2026Senate

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

    5/20/2026Senate

  6. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

    5/19/2026House

  7. Received from the House without amendments.

    5/19/2026Senate

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

    5/18/2026House

  9. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/19/2026.

    5/18/2026House

  10. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.

    5/13/2026House

  11. Reported favorably (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    5/12/2026House

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

    4/9/2026House

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

    4/8/2026House

  14. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    4/7/2026Senate

  15. Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.

    4/1/2026Senate

  16. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.

    4/1/2026Senate

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

    3/25/2026Senate

  18. Rules suspended.

    3/25/2026Senate

  19. Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs.

    3/25/2026Senate

  20. Reported with amendments.

    3/24/2026Senate

  21. Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B.

    3/9/2026Senate

  22. Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary B.

    2/27/2026Senate

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