House Committee on Education
May 19, 2026
9:00 a.m.
Room 1
Scheduled
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CALL TO ORDER
ROLL CALL
BUSINESS
HR249
FISHER
STUDENT/STANDARDS
- Requests the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to incorporate artificial intelligence into content standards
HR251
CARVER
SCHOOLS
- Requests the state Department of Education to study the feasibility of incorporating recess into schedules for elementary school students in grades kindergarten through three
HB395
MARCELLE
SCHOOLS
- Requires the state Department of Education to create a program to recruit, hire, and retain mental health professionals (OR INCREASE GF EX See Note)
HB902
MARCELLE
HEALTH
- Provides relative to the creation of a trauma-informed training program (EG +$210,433 GF EX See Note)
SB83
EDMONDS
SCHOOLS
- Provides for training to prevent human trafficking at public elementary and secondary schools and provides for victims' services. (gov sig) (RE SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)
SB132
KLEINPETER
SCHOOLS
- Provides that each public school board is to install exterior master key boxes to allow for rapid entry, response, and rescue by law enforcement and first responders during a school crisis. (8/1/26) (EG INCREASE GF EX See Note)
SB157
JENKINS
SCHOOLS
- Provides for paid parental leave for eligible employees. (gov sig) (RR INCREASE GF EX See Note)
SB338
BARROW
SCHOOLS
- Provides for preventing bullying in schools. (8/1/26)
SB450
EDMONDS
SCHOOLS
- Requires mandatory reporting of school threats and provides for physical security school assessments for K-12 schools. (8/1/26) (RR SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)
SB484
ABRAHAM
COLLEGES/UNIVERSITIES
- Transfers certain duties from the Board of Regents to the management boards of public colleges and universities and Louisiana Works. (8/1/26)
SB501
JACKSON-ANDREWS
COLLEGES/UNIVERSITIES
- Requires public postsecondary education institutions to post information on campuses promoting STI prevention, screening, and treatment to be known as the Campus Awareness Initiative. (gov sig) (EG SEE FISC NOTE SG EX)
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)
OTHER BUSINESS
Remarks from Dr. Cade Brumley, state superintendent of education, pertaining to Louisiana’s education rankings.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
ADJOURNMENT
Any interested person or any committee member may file with the committee a prepared statement concerning a specific instrument or matter under consideration by the committee or concerning any matter within the committee's scope of authority, and the committee records shall reflect receipt of such statement and the date and time thereof.
NOTE: Statements may be filed with the House Committee on Education via email at h-educ@legis.la.gov. Statements submitted, and the information contained therein, are public records and subject to disclosure pursuant to public records laws.
Audio/visual presentations, such as PowerPoint, shall be filed with the House Committee on Education via email at h-educ@legis.la.gov at least twenty-four hours prior to the scheduled start of the committee meeting. No flash or thumb drives will be accepted.