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LouisianaSB 3762026 Regular SessionSenateWALLET

SECONDARY EDUCATION: Provides for the Learn and Earn Act. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE LF EX See Note)

Sponsored By: Beth Mizell (Republican)

Signed by Governor

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Bill Overview

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

Student workers get pay and protections

Students enrolled in state-approved work-based learning courses must receive school credit and at least the applicable minimum wage. The business partner is their employer for wage and workers’ compensation purposes. Completed, credit-bearing internships aligned with approved career paths satisfy state school and district accountability internship requirements under state board rules. Students need safety training before participating; work prohibited for minors is banned, and school safety, supervision, and visitor rules apply. Partner staff with direct, unsupervised student contact must meet school employee criminal background check and eligibility rules.

Schools can offer on-campus career training

Louisiana school boards can create or partner with businesses, nonprofits, or financial institutions to offer on-campus high school career programs. Programs must follow state-approved career paths, teach money and job skills, and make students the main beneficiaries. Customer services must support instruction; unrelated commercial activity is banned. Charter schools can participate under their charter laws and contracts, but must follow practicum requirements despite their usual exemptions. Programs staying within a compliant agreement’s teaching scope are part of public education—not commercial tenants, proprietary schools, or trade or commerce under state trade laws.

Schools must protect public training resources

School boards retain oversight and must post each written partnership agreement online as a public record. Agreements must serve a valid public purpose, set enforceable partner duties, and provide public value meeting state constitutional requirements. Public assets must be inventoried and valued using a state-board-approved fair market method, recertified annually, with partner benefits worth at least that value. Agreements must cover instruction, safety, supervision, training, privacy, child labor, workplace safety, accessibility, and public-property rules; insurance must also cover the school board and state, with liability protection through indemnification. Practicum payments go into a restricted Career Practicum Fund for work-based learning, teaching equipment, or related education; state board rules cannot weaken statutory safeguards.

Existing school programs get transition time

Programs lawfully operating on Louisiana public high school campuses before the law’s effective date can continue during the transition. They must serve an educational purpose and meet state constitutional public-funding requirements. Beginning with the 2029–2030 school year, they must follow all career practicum requirements, including pay, credit, agreements, asset valuation, and student protections.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Beth Mizell

    Republican • Senate

Cosponsors

  • Barbara Carpenter

    Democratic • House

  • Eddie J. Lambert

    Republican • Senate

  • Gary Carter

    Democratic • Senate

  • Gerald Boudreaux

    Democratic • Senate

  • Glen Womack

    Republican • Senate

  • Gregory A. Miller

    Republican • Senate

  • Heather Cloud

    Republican • Senate

  • John C. "Jay" Morris

    Republican • Senate

  • Jeremy Stine

    Republican • Senate

  • Katrina R. Jackson-Andrews

    Democratic • Senate

  • Kim Carver

    Republican • House

  • Larry Selders

    Affiliation unavailable

  • Patrick Connick

    Republican • Senate

  • Reese "Skip" Broussard

    Republican • House

  • Rick Edmonds

    Republican • Senate

  • Stephanie H. Berault

    Republican • House

  • Stewart Cathey Jr.

    Republican • Senate

  • Valarie Hodges

    Republican • Senate

  • William "Bill" Wheat Jr.

    Republican • Senate

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 146 • No: 0

House vote • 5/6/2026

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

Yes: 98 • No: 0

House vote • 4/23/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 12 • No: 0

Senate vote • 3/31/2026

Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 36 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/8/2026.

    5/11/2026Senate

  2. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 100.

    5/11/2026Senate

  3. Effective date 5/11/2026.

    5/11/2026Senate

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

    5/7/2026Senate

  5. Signed by the Speaker of the House.

    5/7/2026House

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

    5/6/2026House

  7. Received from the House without amendments.

    5/6/2026Senate

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

    5/5/2026House

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

    4/28/2026House

  10. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.

    4/27/2026House

  11. Reported favorably (12-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    4/23/2026House

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

    4/7/2026House

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

    4/1/2026House

  14. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    3/31/2026Senate

  15. Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.

    3/30/2026Senate

  16. Reported favorably.

    3/25/2026Senate

  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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