Education
📅 Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:00 AM
📍 Room 1
House committee
House Committee on Education
Official meetings and agendas
Committee members
Bills pending in this committee
HR264
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Directs the Board of Regents and certain Boards of Supervisors of public postsecondary education institutions to conduct a fiscal review of all state and federal funds expended in furtherance of certain executive budget objectives and to transmit their findings to the legislative auditor for consolidation into a written report to the legislature (EG SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)
May 13, 2026Pending: House Education
SB338
👎 3
Provides for preventing bullying in schools. (8/1/26)
May 11, 2026Pending: House Education
SB507
👍 1
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)
May 7, 2026Pending: House Education
HR251
Requests the state Department of Education to study the feasibility of incorporating recess into schedules for elementary school students in grades kindergarten through three
May 7, 2026Pending: House Education
HB902
👎 2
Provides relative to the creation of a trauma-informed training program (EG +$210,433 GF EX See Note)
April 28, 2026Pending: House Education
HR175
Requests that the Board of Regents, in consultation with Louisiana Works, study potential changes to the Taylor Opportunity Program for Students (TOPS) with respect to the TOPS-Tech award
April 21, 2026Pending: House Education
HCR48
Requests the Board of Regents to conduct a study relative to the funding structure for public postsecondary education institutions
April 8, 2026Pending: House Education
HCR43
👍 1
Suspends certain laws relative to the licensure of nonpublic prekindergarten programs as early learning centers
April 1, 2026Pending: House Education
HB1150
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Requires the administration of trauma screenings to public school students (OR INCREASE LF EX See Note)
April 1, 2026Pending: House Education
HB1149
Requires each public school to incorporate instruction on artificial intelligence into an existing course of study for each student in grades six through twelve (OR NO IMPACT See Note)
April 1, 2026Pending: House Education
HB1130
👍 1
Provides for a hunting course for certain public school students
April 1, 2026Pending: House Education
HB1128
Provides relative to TOPS-Tech
April 1, 2026Pending: House Education
HB1110
Provides relative to learning pods in public school systems
April 1, 2026Pending: House Education
HB1063
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Provides requirements for public postsecondary education management boards relative to core curricula, hiring and employment, faculty deliberative bodies, and nonacademic disciplinary proceedings and prohibits institutions from expending certain funds under certain circumstances (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)
March 31, 2026Pending: House Education
HB1046
👎 1
Provides relative to the membership of the Louisiana Commission on Civic Education
March 31, 2026Pending: House Education
HB1021
👍 1
Provides relative to repayment of certain TOPS award amounts under certain circumstances (OR INCREASE GF EX See Note)
March 31, 2026Pending: House Education
HCR30
Requests the Board of Regents to study the potential establishment of a legislative scholarship program
March 23, 2026Pending: House Education
HCR29
Urges and requests public school governing authorities and employees to comply with and enforce the bullying laws of the state of Louisiana
March 23, 2026Pending: House Education
HCR20
Provides for legislative approval of the MFP formula for FY 2026-2027 (OR -$12,159,331 GF EX See Note)
March 18, 2026Pending: House Education
HB973
Provides for the development, review, and revision of student high school graduation plans
March 17, 2026Pending: House Education
HB935
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Provides for TOPS awards to students enrolled in graduate medical sciences at certain institutions (OR +$45,600 GF EX See Note)
March 9, 2026Pending: House Education
HB83
👍 1
Provides relative to the conversion of preexisting schools into charter schools
March 9, 2026Pending: House Education
HB787
Removes successful completion of a computer science course as a requirement for TOPS qualification (OR NO IMPACT See Note)
March 9, 2026Pending: House Education
HB737
👍 3
Provides relative to the requirement that certain students present evidence of immunization against meningococcal disease as a condition of school entry
March 9, 2026Pending: House Education
HB678
Authorizes students who qualify for a TOPS award but graduate from an out-of-state college to apply unused award amounts to medical or dental school in Louisiana and requires repayment unless certain conditions are met (OR +$367,110 GF EX See Note)
March 9, 2026Pending: House Education
HB645
Prohibits schools from being members of, or participating in competition sponsored by, an athletic association that does not provide for a gubernatorial appointee, a House member, and a Senate member to serve as voting members of its governing board or committee
March 9, 2026Pending: House Education
HB644
👍 1
Prohibits schools from being members of, or participating in competition sponsored by, any intrastate interscholastic extracurricular athletic association or organization that does not provide for certain student eligibility procedures
March 9, 2026Pending: House Education
HB572
👎 1
Creates the Resilient Youth and Trauma-Informed Schools Grant Pilot Program (OR +$201,705 GF EX See Note)
March 9, 2026Pending: House Education
HB558
👎 1
Provides relative to public school teacher compensation (OR INCREASE GF EX See Note)
March 9, 2026Pending: House Education
HB531
Provides relative to student disciplinary processes with respect to suspensions and expulsions
March 9, 2026Pending: House Education
HB395
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Requires the state Department of Education to create a program to recruit, hire, and retain mental health professionals (OR INCREASE GF EX See Note)
March 9, 2026Pending: House Education
HB391
(Constitutional Amendment) Abolishes the Board of Regents
March 9, 2026Pending: House Education
HB365
👎 1
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
March 9, 2026Pending: House Education
HB317
Prohibits the assignment of prekindergarten or kindergarten students to an alternative school unless suspended or expelled for certain infractions
March 9, 2026Pending: House Education
HB303
Excludes certain local revenues for the purposes of computing per pupil funding amounts for certain charter schools (OR NO IMPACT See Note)
March 9, 2026Pending: House Education
HB274
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Provides relative to initial eligibility requirements for the M.J. Foster Promise Program (OR INCREASE SD EX See Note)
March 9, 2026Pending: House Education
HB269
👎 1
Creates and provides for the Free School Breakfast Program to be administered by the state Department of Education (OR INCREASE SG EX See Note)
March 9, 2026Pending: House Education
HB262
👎 1
Prohibits requiring students to pass state-administered end-of-course (LEAP) tests in order to graduate from high school
March 9, 2026Pending: House Education
HB229
Prohibits the use of public funds for certain postsecondary degree programs (OR DECREASE GF EX See Note)
March 9, 2026Pending: House Education
HB113
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Provides for retroactive application of the uniform 10-point grading scale requirement to the grades of students who were enrolled in the ninth grade during the 2023-2024 school year (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)
March 9, 2026Pending: House Education
HB104
Authorizes each public postsecondary education management board to develop and implement a voluntary phased retirement program for faculty and staff
March 9, 2026Pending: House Education