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LouisianaSB 5042026 Regular SessionSenateWALLET

STUDENTS: Provides relative to individual graduation plans. (8/1/26) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

Sponsored By: Gary Carter (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

Education

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

More High School Planning Help for Families

Beginning August 1, 2026, graduation plans must list core courses through tenth grade and first-year high school courses by eighth grade’s end. The student’s individualized education program serves this role when applicable. Students who do not meet ninth-grade promotion standards must have remedial courses included. Charter schools ending at eighth grade must give students and parents written information about graduation plans, diploma types, and required courses. These students must complete their plan’s high school course list upon enrollment, no later than October 1 of ninth grade. The charter school may partner with the student’s planned high school to help provide the graduation plan or individualized education program.

Parents Get More Graduation Planning Rights

Beginning August 1, 2026, Louisiana charter schools must follow graduation-plan rules for public schools serving the same grades, subject to approved-charter terms. Schools must review plans yearly and update course lists as needed until all required core courses are completed. Before changes, counselors must meet with parents in person or virtually to explain effects on graduation and goals after high school. Parents must approve changes in writing; students, parents, and counselors must sign each revised plan. Plans must allow changes while keeping students on track for graduation or individualized education requirements and college or work. Parents of students entering eleventh grade can request a graduation-plan or individualized education program update; updates are not automatic. Each student must be offered available vocational training opportunities, with help from parents and counselors; no particular program is guaranteed. Schools must use existing staff, counselors, and other available resources to carry out these rules.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Gary Carter

    Democratic • Senate

Cosponsors

  • Barbara Reich Freiberg

    Republican • House

  • Chasity Martinez

    Democratic • House

  • Kim Carver

    Republican • House

  • Laurie Schlegel

    Republican • House

  • Reese "Skip" Broussard

    Republican • House

  • Sylvia Elaine Taylor

    Democratic • House

  • Terry Landry Jr.

    Democratic • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 137 • No: 0

House vote • 5/19/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 91 • No: 0

House vote • 5/12/2026

Reported with amendments

Yes: 11 • No: 0

Senate vote • 4/21/2026

Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 35 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 523.

    5/29/2026Senate

  2. Effective date 8/1/2026.

    5/29/2026Senate

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

    5/26/2026Senate

  4. Signed by the Speaker of the House.

    5/26/2026House

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

    5/26/2026Senate

  6. Received from the House with amendments.

    5/20/2026Senate

  7. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

    5/19/2026House

  8. Read by title, amended, 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 with amendments (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    5/12/2026House

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

    4/23/2026House

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

    4/22/2026House

  14. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    4/21/2026Senate

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

    4/20/2026Senate

  16. Reported favorably.

    4/15/2026Senate

  17. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education.

    4/1/2026Senate

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

    3/31/2026Senate

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