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LouisianaSB 812025 Regular SessionSenateWALLET

EDUCATION ACCOUNTABILITY: Provides for academic transparency and parental access to digital instructional materials and other educational materials in a manner that is free-of-charge. (8/1/25) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)

Sponsored By: Rick Edmonds (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Education

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Parents get school material review rights

Beginning August 1, 2025, Louisiana public school boards must set rules for parents to review instructional materials upon request. Schools must set reasonable hours for in-person review. Required online access covers only curricula adopted under R.S. 17:351.1; other materials may be available in person under local rules. Boards must send their policies and allowed copying-fee schedules electronically to the Louisiana Department of Education. The department must report on compliance to both legislative education committees by March 9, 2026, including each policy and fee schedule.

Parents face limits on school test access

Beginning August 1, 2025, Louisiana public school boards decide whether parents can review academic tests, assessments, and answer keys. This includes nonsecure tests and assessments, which are no longer included in the law's definition of instructional materials. Access to these assessments is therefore not guaranteed by the instructional-material access rule. Boards that allow access can limit it to in-person viewing at school.

Parents get free viewing, copying fees allowed

Beginning August 1, 2025, Louisiana public schools cannot charge parents to view their child's instructional materials without requesting copies. Online access to instructional materials is also free. Schools must provide requested paper copies when school equipment can readily copy the material, but may charge reasonable, customary fees. Parents can copy materials on school premises using a phone or another device that makes copies. No other law or policy can block this copying right, and principals must ensure compliance.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Rick Edmonds

    Republican • Senate

Cosponsors

  • Alonzo L. Knox

    Democratic • House

  • Annie Spell

    Republican • House

  • Beryl Amedée

    Republican • House

  • Charles Owen

    Republican • House

  • Roy Daryl Adams

    Democratic • House

  • Michael "Gabe" Firment

    Republican • House

  • John E. Wyble

    Republican • House

  • Josh Carlson

    Republican • House

  • Kathy Edmonston

    Republican • House

  • Kellee Hennessy Dickerson

    Republican • House

  • Kim Carver

    Republican • House

  • Laurie Schlegel

    Republican • House

  • R. Dewith Carrier

    Republican • House

  • Roger William Wilder III

    Republican • House

  • Stephanie H. Berault

    Republican • House

  • Tehmi Jahi Chassion

    Democratic • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 147 • No: 0

House vote • 6/2/2025

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 • 5/20/2025

Reported favorably

Yes: 11 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/13/2025

Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 38 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 103.

    6/8/2025Senate

  2. Effective date 8/1/2025.

    6/8/2025Senate

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

    6/4/2025Senate

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

    6/3/2025Senate

  5. Signed by the Speaker of the House.

    6/3/2025House

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

    6/2/2025House

  7. Received from the House without amendments.

    6/2/2025Senate

  8. Scheduled for floor debate on 06/02/2025.

    5/28/2025House

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

    5/22/2025House

  10. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.

    5/21/2025House

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

    5/20/2025House

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

    5/14/2025House

  13. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/13/2025Senate

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

    5/13/2025House

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

    5/12/2025Senate

  16. Reported favorably.

    5/8/2025Senate

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

    4/14/2025Senate

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

    4/2/2025Senate

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