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LouisianaSB 4092026 Regular SessionSenateWALLET

EMPLOYMENT: Provides protections for employees who become living organ donors. (8/1/26) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

Sponsored By: Brach Jerad Myers (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Labor and Industrial Relations

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

Paid donor leave for state workers

Beginning August 1, 2026, eligible Louisiana state agency workers get up to 30 consecutive calendar days of paid donor leave. You must work full time and have worked continuously for the same agency for at least 12 months. Independent contractors, legislative workers, court workers, and local government workers are not covered by this paid-leave rule. Covered donations include all or part of a liver, pancreas, kidney, intestine, lung, or bone marrow for transplantation. Leave starts the day after surgery and does not use your accrued sick, annual, or military leave. It runs at the same time as applicable unpaid leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act. Your agency may ask a doctor to verify the reason and length of leave. Already-granted paid leave is not lost if doctors later find you ineligible to donate. This leave has no cash value when your employment ends.

Unpaid donor leave and worker protections

Beginning August 1, 2026, Louisiana private employers with at least one employee must provide unpaid organ or bone marrow donor leave. You must request leave in writing; required leave covers the time requested, up to 30 consecutive calendar days. This private-employer rule excludes public employers, including municipalities, parishes, state agencies, and higher education institutions. The required private-sector leave does not guarantee pay, so workers may lose wages while away. Employers may provide extra leave, including paid or unpaid leave longer than 30 days, without changing other employment benefit rights. Employers cannot fire, demote, suspend, threaten, harass, or discriminate against workers for requesting or taking covered donor leave. That protection covers both the law's state-agency paid leave and private-sector unpaid leave.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Brach Jerad Myers

    Republican • Senate

Cosponsors

  • Alan Seabaugh

    Republican • Senate

  • Jeremy Stine

    Republican • Senate

  • Kirk Talbot

    Republican • Senate

  • Larry Selders

    Affiliation unavailable

  • Regina Barrow

    Democratic • Senate

  • Stephanie Hilferty

    Republican • House

  • Tehmi Jahi Chassion

    Democratic • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 145 • No: 0

House vote • 5/18/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 97 • No: 0

House vote • 5/7/2026

Reported with amendments

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. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 506.

    5/29/2026Senate

  2. Effective date 8/1/2026.

    5/29/2026Senate

  3. Signed by the Speaker of the House.

    5/25/2026House

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

    5/21/2026Senate

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

    5/21/2026Senate

  6. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/18/2026.

    5/18/2026House

  7. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

    5/18/2026House

  8. Received from the House with amendments.

    5/18/2026Senate

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

    5/12/2026House

  10. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.

    5/11/2026House

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

    5/7/2026House

  12. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations.

    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. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.

    3/30/2026Senate

  16. Reported with amendments.

    3/25/2026Senate

  17. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations.

    3/18/2026Senate

  18. Rules suspended. Introduced in the Senate. Read by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

    3/17/2026Senate

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