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LouisianaSB 3462026 Regular SessionSenateWALLET

SCHOOLS: Prohibits the use of deepfake material against students enrolled in K-12. (8/1/26)

Sponsored By: Regina Barrow (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

Education

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Bill Overview

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

New deepfake protections for Louisiana school children

Beginning August 1, 2026, Louisiana law bans harmful deepfake use against students in kindergarten through grade 12. The ban applies to students, teachers, administrators, and other employees at elementary and secondary schools. It covers use intended to coerce, harass, or intimidate a student, or to maliciously share or sell the material. Deepfakes are electronic audio or images created or changed to falsely seem authentic, or to replace someone's likeness with another's. Political, public-interest, and newsworthy works are excluded, including commentary, criticism, satire, and parody. Material is also excluded when its content, context, or a disclosure visible throughout makes clear it depicts no real event. The State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education must develop and adopt implementation rules with the Department of Education.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Regina Barrow

    Democratic • Senate

Cosponsors

  • Barbara Reich Freiberg

    Republican • House

  • Chasity Martinez

    Democratic • House

  • Laurie Schlegel

    Republican • House

  • Sylvia Elaine Taylor

    Democratic • House

  • Tehmi Jahi Chassion

    Democratic • House

  • Terry Landry Jr.

    Democratic • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 141 • No: 0

House vote • 5/19/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 96 • No: 0

House vote • 5/12/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 10 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/5/2026

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

Yes: 35 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 496.

    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 96, 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 Education.

    5/7/2026House

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

    5/6/2026House

  14. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/5/2026Senate

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

    4/27/2026Senate

  16. Rules suspended. Reported with amendments.

    4/22/2026Senate

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

    3/9/2026Senate

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

    2/27/2026Senate

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