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Read. Follow. Verify.Louisiana requires public colleges to provide 24/7 mental health access, hotline IDs, and risk-assessment data collection
Last action · June 1, 2026: Effective date: 08/01/2026.Sponsors: Edmond Jordan and 1 other
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What This Bill Does
Louisiana public colleges and universities must print suicide prevention hotlines on student IDs, provide 24/7 access to mental health professionals, and collect demographic data on suicide risk assessments starting August 1, 2026.
Changes campus mental health compliance requirements for all public postsecondary institutions, establishing mandatory staff availability, digital resource distribution, and anonymous data tracking for student suicide risks.
Who It Affects
Groups the bill's text affects, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
public postsecondary education institution
Public colleges and universities must post crisis numbers on websites and IDs, provide 24/7 mental health access, and implement aggregated risk-assessment data collection systems.
entering full-time, part-time, undergraduate, graduate, and professional students, including transfer students
New students receive mandatory interactive suicide prevention education, hotline numbers on IDs, and guaranteed access to 24/7 mental health professionals.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Current status: Signed into law.
Procedural history
25 actions- Jun 1, 2026HouseEnrolledSigned by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 660.
- Jun 1, 2026HouseEffective date: 08/01/2026.
- May 29, 2026HouseSent to the Governor for executive approval.
- May 28, 2026HouseReceived from the Senate without amendments.
- May 28, 2026HouseEnrolledEnrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- May 28, 2026SenateEnrolledSigned by the President of the Senate.
Show 19 earlier actions
- May 27, 2026SenateCalled from the Calendar.
- May 27, 2026SenateFloorRead by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
- May 26, 2026SenateRules suspended.
- May 26, 2026SenateIntroducedRead by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- May 20, 2026SenateFloorReported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- May 19, 2026SenateIntroducedRead by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- May 18, 2026SenateCommitteeReported favorably.
- Apr 1, 2026SenateCommitteeRead second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education.
- Mar 31, 2026HouseIntroducedRead by title, returned to the calendar.
- Mar 31, 2026HouseCalled from the calendar.
- Mar 31, 2026HouseFloorRead third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
- Mar 31, 2026SenateReceived in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- Mar 30, 2026HouseScheduled for floor debate on 03/31/2026.
- Mar 26, 2026HouseFloorRead by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- Mar 25, 2026HouseCommitteeReported favorably (14-0).
- Mar 9, 2026HouseIntroducedRead by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education.
- Feb 27, 2026HousePrefiled.
- Feb 27, 2026HouseCommitteeUnder the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education.
- Feb 27, 2026HouseFirst appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.
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Mandatory 24/7 Mental Health Access
The legislation shifts state postsecondary requirements from general resource promotion to mandatory 24/7 remote or on-campus professional availability and student ID disclosures.
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www.legis.la.gov
Analysis Score
0–100- Significance65How much this matters to a regular citizen
- Controversy5Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment2Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz25Current news / social attention level
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