Agenda - Education

Senate Committee on Education
May 14, 2026 upon adjournment of the Senate John J. Hainkel, Jr. Room
Scheduled
* Agenda Revised May 13, 2026, 3:52 pm * Revision Notes: added: SCR 65 added: SR 119

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CALL TO ORDER
ROLL CALL
APPROVAL OF MINUTES
	May 7, 2026
LEGISLATION TO BE CONSIDERED
		SR119	LUNEAU	PUBLIC BUILDINGS/GROUNDS - Requests the LSU Board of Supervisors to study naming the LSU Gymnastics Training Facility in honor of Coach D-D Breaux.
		SCR65	EDMONDS	SCHOOLS - Creates the K-12 Student Success Pathways Task Force to study and make recommendations on a statewide plan for advising students on career and academic pathways in K-12 public schools.
		HCR47	FREEMAN	SCHOOLS/EMPLOYEES - Requests that the Department of Children and Family Services, in consultation with the state Department of Education, study the implementation of online training requirements for school employees relative to reporting child abuse
		HB196	BEAULLIEU	TEACHERS/LEAVE - Provides relative to personal leave days for teachers (EG NO IMPACT See Note)
		HB218	LAFLEUR	SCHOOLS - Requires the inclusion of questions pertaining to food insecurity on a residency questionnaire administered to public school students (RE NO IMPACT See Note)
		HB256	FREEMAN	SCHOOLS/EMPLOYEES - Provides that school employees are subject to existing requirements pertaining to mandatory reporters, including certain training provided by the Department of Children and Family Services
		HB325	BRASS	TOPS - Revises initial academic eligibility requirements for a TOPS-Tech award and provides for award to part-time students (RE INCREASE GF EX See Note)
		HB352	MACK	STUDENTS - Provides relative to behavioral health services for public school students (RE SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)
		HB434	WILDER	SCHOOLS/BUS OPERATORS - Grants certain powers, duties, and responsibilities relative to a school bus operator's probationary term of employment to the superintendent instead of the school board
		HB448	ADAMS	STUDENT/LOANS-SCHOLARSHP - Authorizes scholarships provided for firefighters and police officers injured in the line of duty and spouses of firefighters and police officers injured or killed in the line of duty to be used for any postgraduate degree (RE INCREASE GF EX See Note)
		HB476	DICKERSON	SCHOOLS - Requires each public secondary school to display flyers about the Safe Haven Law in restrooms (RE SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)
		HB608	CHASSION	ATHLETICS - Provides relative to the confidentiality of documents related to an intercollegiate athletics revenue sharing program
		HB624	MIKE JOHNSON	SCHOOLS - Provides relative to emergency operations plans at public schools
		HB626	JORDAN	COLLEGES/UNIVERSITIES - Provides relative to suicide prevention plans at colleges and universities
		HB632	SPELL	STUDENTS - Provides relative to information sharing for the purposes of Louisiana's Foundational Integrated Research System for Transformation (LA FIRST)
		HB749	CARVER	FUNDS/INVESTMENTS - Authorizes the Louisiana Tuition Trust Authority to contract with a program manager for the administration of certain savings accounts (ABLE, START, and START K12 programs) and the investment of account funds (RR +$4,000,000 GF EX See Note)
		HB818	RISER	STUDENT/ASSESSMENT - Provides relative to student assessments (EG SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)
		HB1059	BROUSSARD	TOPS - Provides relative to core curriculum requirements for TOPS and TOPS-Tech awards in the subject of mathematics (EG NO IMPACT See Note)
		HB1112	CHENEVERT	EARLY CHILDHOOD - Provides relative to prekindergarten programs
		HB1242	TERRY LANDRY JR	EARLY CHILDHOOD - Provides relative to licenses of Type III early learning centers
		HB1249	JACKSON	HEALTH/SCHOOL CLINICS - Provides relative to school-based health center services provided to students (RE SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)
CONSIDERATION OF ANY OTHER MATTERS THAT MAY COME BEFORE THE COMMITTEE
ADJOURNMENT

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