2025 Education Bills Signed

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Act 347 Turner:

Summary: Adds the Excellence award level for students who score 31 or higher on the ACT and allows award qualification based on the Classic Learning Test

Act 463 McMath:

Summary: Provides relative to nutrition and ultra processed foods served in schools

Act 479 Mack:

Summary: Provides relative to the use of seclusion and physical restraint to address the behavior of students with exceptionalities

Act 181 Berault:

Suammary: Provides for the transfer of school disciplinary records

Act 129 Young:

Summary: Provides relative to the assets of certain charter schools

Act 48 Willard:

Summary: Provides relative to required instruction in financial literacy for high school students

Act 130 Horton:

Summary: Provides for the designation of a postsecondary education institution as a "Purple Star Campus"

Act 59 Thompson:

Summary: Provides relative to scholarships awarded through the Geaux Teach Program

Act 10 Mena:

Summary: Provides relative to the Advisory Council on Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Act 152 Hughes:

Summary: Provides for eligibility requirements for TOPS-Tech and TOPS-Tech Early Start

Act 187 Hughes:

Summary: Requires the Workforce Investment Council to perform an annual return on investment analysis relative to industry-based credentials earned in high school and provides for student data collection and sharing for this purpose

Act 359 Wilder:

Summary: Lowers the ACT score required for initial qualification for a Taylor Opportunity Program for Students award for students who complete approved home study programs

Act 497 Bryant:

Summary: Provides relative to disciplinary penalties for certain public-school students found to be in possession of certain substances on school property

Act 270 Stagni:

Summary: Amends the student growth component in the evaluation of teachers and administrators

Act 366 Carlson:

Summary: Requires school systems to provide a salary increase for teachers and other school employees using savings attributable to the state's payment of certain unfunded accrued liability of the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana

Act 282 Freiberg: 

Summary: Authorizes university laboratory schools to participate in the student tuition organization tax credit program

Act 379 Turner:

Summary: Transfers powers and duties of the Nursing Supply and Demand Council and the Simulation Medical Training and Education Council to the Louisiana Health Works Commission

Act 88 Turner:

Summary: Establishes job order contracting as an alternative project delivery method applicable to deferred maintenance of public facilities by postsecondary education institutions for certain work types

Act 210 Owen:

Summary: Provides relative to the effectiveness of laws requiring reports to be submitted annually to the legislature by the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education and the state Department of Education and provides relative to certain commissions and advisory councils

Act 477 Carver:

Summary: Reorganizes the Department of Children and Family Services

Act 478 Berault:

Summary: Transfers certain family and support programs from the Department of Children and Family Services to the Louisiana Workforce Commission and renames Louisiana Workforce Commission to Louisiana Works

Act 47 Bacala:

Summary: Provides relative to the optional retirement plan in the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana

Act 51 Brass:

Summary: Revises the membership of the Dual Enrollment Task Force

Act 218 Edmonds:

Summary: Constitutional amendment to grant the St. George community school system in East Baton Rouge Parish the same authority granted to parishes to operate a school system.

Act 403 Talbot:

Summary: Provides relative to the tax credit for donations to school tuition organizations.

Act 409 Barrow:

Summary: Provides relative to child welfare.

Act 413 Foil:

Summary: Provides relative to the administration of the Louisiana Charter School Start-Up Loan Fund and expands the authorized uses of the fund

Act 472 Abraham:

Summary: Provides with respect to the Louisiana Competency-Based Education Program.

Act 425 Kleinpeter:

Summary: Provides for school mapping data of public-school buildings and facilities

Act 42 Cathey:

Summary: Allows transportation network companies to transport students to and from school and school related functions.

Act 439 Jenkins:

Summary: Establishes the School Employee Bill of Rights.

Act 447 Harris:

Summary: Transfers the University of New Orleans to the Louisiana State University System

Act 449 Carter:

Summary: Requires all public high school students to have access to available vocational and technical courses.

Act 454 Edmonds:

Summary: Provides for changes to the School Readiness Tax Credit.

Act 455 Edmonds:

Summary: Creates and provides for the St. George Community School Board and school system in East Baton Rouge Parish

Act 157 Boyd:

Summary: Provides for a privacy waiver relative to certain mental health information of postsecondary education students

Act 161 St Blanc:

Summary: Authorizes a public school to sell and trade certain technology equipment

Act 174 Boyd:

Summary: Requires certain postsecondary education students to complete an anti-hazing course

Act 353 Wyble:

Summary: Provides for teacher certification and professional development with respect to numeracy

Act 356 Chassion:

Summary: Requires schools to use a 10-point grading scale to assign grades used in the calculation of the minimum grade point average required for initial award eligibility

Act 358 Amedee:

Summary: Provides relative to the free exercise of religion

Act 222 Emerson:

Summary: Provides relative to the application of state monies to the unfunded accrued liability of the Teachers' Retirement System of La.

Act 504 Fisher:

Summary: Requires public schools to offer a mental health assessment to certain students

Act 376 Carver:

Summary: Establishes the Work-Based Learning Tax Credit for employment of apprentices, interns, and youth workers