Agenda - Education

Senate Committee on Education
April 22, 2026 12:30 pm John J. Hainkel, Jr. Room
Adjourned
* Agenda Revised April 21, 2026, 3:51 pm * Revision Notes: Added: SB 346 Removed: SB 520

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CALL TO ORDER
ROLL CALL
APPROVAL OF MINUTES
	April 15, 2026
LEGISLATION TO BE CONSIDERED
		SCR33	MYERS	EDUCATION DEPARTMENT - Creates the Work-Based Learning Coordination Task Force.
		SB112	HODGES	SCHOOLS - Provides that public school boards may adopt a policy to authorize released time for K-12 public school students, subject to parental approval. (gov sig) (OR NO IMPACT See Note)
		SB307	EDMONDS	PUBLIC BUILDINGS/GROUNDS - Authorizes the educational display of the Ten Commandments as a historical document and monument. (8/1/26) (OR NO IMPACT See Note)
		SB346	BARROW	SCHOOLS - Prohibits the use of deepfake material against students enrolled in K-12. (8/1/26)
		SB347	BARROW	COLLEGES/UNIVERSITIES - Provides for the crime of "unlawful deepfake" to be added to the definition of power-based violence under the Campus Accountability and Safety Act. (gov sig)
		SB507	BARTHELEMY	STUDENTS - Requires BESE to establish a uniform process to determine when a student is nonenrolled due to incarceration or unknown whereabouts in order to exclude the student from public school accountability calculations. (8/1/26)
		SB518	FOIL	PUBLIC LANDS - Allows Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College to buy and sell certain real estate. (8/1/26)
		HB50	SCHLEGEL	SUNSET LAW - Re-creates the Department of Education
		HB271	WYBLE	EDUCATION - Creates the Louisiana Commission on Foundational Education and abolishes the Louisiana Literacy Advisory Commission (RE NO IMPACT See Note)
		HB283	NEWELL	SCHOOLS - Provides relative to incidents of assault and battery on students and school employees (EG INCREASE LF EX See Note)
		HB319	BAYHAM	BOARDS/COMMISSIONS - Provides relative to the Louisiana Commission on Civic Education
CONSIDERATION OF ANY OTHER MATTERS THAT MAY COME BEFORE THE COMMITTEE

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