House Committee on Education
April 29, 2025
9:30 a.m.
Room 1

Adjourned
 




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CALL TO ORDER

ROLL CALL

BUSINESS
 HR3ECHOLSSCHOOLS/FOOD PROGRAMS - Requests the state Department of Education to study the feasibility of and potential costs associated with prohibiting certain foods and beverages in public schools
 HR4ECHOLSSCHOOLS/FOOD PROGRAMS - Memorializes the United States Congress to support funding for the ability to focus on purchasing American agricultural products and the removal of ultra-processed food and beverages from K-12 public schools
 HR7YOUNGSCHOOLS/FINANCE - Requests that the legislative fiscal office update the report issued in February 2013 pursuant to SCR No. 137 of the 2012 Regular Session regarding the means and methods used to provide funding for laboratory schools
 HR8MELERINESTUDENT/ASSESSMENT - Requests the state Department of Education to report relative to the administration of certain standardized tests
 HR15YOUNGATHLETICS - Creates a task force to study issues relative to the name, image, and likeness of student athletes in Louisiana
 HCR24MIKE JOHNSONSCHOOLS/HIGH SCHOOL - Creates a special committee of the legislature to study the Louisiana High School Athletic Association (LHSAA)
 HB54HORTONCOLLEGES/UNIVERSITIES - Provides for the designation of a postsecondary education institution as a "Purple Star Campus" (EG NO IMPACT See Note)
 HB344BERAULTSTUDENT/DISCIPLINE - Provides for the transfer of school disciplinary records and for school personnel's access to certain juvenile court records (OR SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)
 HB352LARVADAINEARLY CHILDHOOD - Provides relative to background checks for certain early childhood workers (EG DECREASE SG RV See Note)
 HB478HORTONHEALTH/SCHOOL CLINICS - Requires certain information about pregnancy, adoption, and neonatal care to be posted and distributed at school health centers in public high schools and student health centers on public postsecondary education institution campuses (EG +$270,936 GF EX See Note)

OTHER BUSINESS
 Adoption of minutes of the House Committee on Education from the 2024 Regular Session dated March 21, March 26, March 27, April 3, April 4, April 9, April 10, April 16, April 17, April 24, April 30, May 7, May 8, May 14, and May 21, 2024; from the 2024-2025 Interim dated September 3, October 17, and December 12, 2024; and from the 2024 3rd Extraordinary Session dated November 12, 2024.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

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