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Read. Follow. Verify.Louisiana restricts employment roles and mandates victim no-contact orders as bail conditions for human trafficking defendants
Last action · May 15, 2026: Effective date: 08/01/2026.Sponsor: Shane Mack
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What This Bill Does
Louisiana requires courts to impose mandatory no-contact orders and prohibit specific employment activities—including driving for rideshare companies, operating for-hire vehicles, door-to-door sales, and working with children—as standard bail conditions for individuals accused of human trafficking or trafficking of children for sexual purposes.
Defendants accused of human trafficking face strict limitations on their employment and personal contact before trial, affecting their ability to work in transportation, childcare, and in-home service sectors while released on bail.
Who It Affects
Groups the bill's text affects, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Human trafficking defendants
Defendants facing human trafficking charges must comply with mandatory no-contact orders and are prohibited from engaging in specified employment and business operations while out on bail.
Victims and immediate family members
Victims and their immediate family members receive mandatory legal protection prohibiting the defendant from approaching, contacting, or communicating with them unless an exception is ordered by the court.
Key Facts
- Courts must require defendants accused of human trafficking or trafficking of children for sexual purposes to refrain from going to the victim's residence, school, and workplace, or contacting the victim and their immediate family members in any manner.
- Victims or immediate family members may request court permission to allow communication with the defendant.
- Bail conditions must prohibit defendants from working as a transportation network company driver.
- Defendants are barred from operating any bus, taxicab, or limousine for hire.
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- Defendants are prohibited from working as a service worker who enters private residences to provide services.
- Bail conditions ban defendants from operating any carnival or amusement ride.
- Defendants are barred from working as door-to-door solicitors, peddlers, or itinerant vendors.
- Defendants are prohibited from exercising supervisory or disciplinary authority over children.
- Defendants are barred from operating or participating in the governance of early learning centers, residential homes, or registered child care provider residences.
Frequently Asked Questions
What employment restrictions apply to a defendant released on bail under this law?
Can a victim ever consent to communication with a defendant out on bail?
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Current status: Signed into law.
Procedural history
20 actions- May 15, 2026HouseEnrolledSigned by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 131.
- May 15, 2026HouseEffective date: 08/01/2026.
- May 13, 2026SenateEnrolledSigned by the President of the Senate.
- May 13, 2026HouseSent to the Governor for executive approval.
- May 12, 2026HouseReceived from the Senate without amendments.
- May 12, 2026HouseEnrolledEnrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
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- May 11, 2026SenateFloorRead by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
- May 4, 2026SenateFloorReported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- Apr 29, 2026SenateIntroducedRead by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- Apr 28, 2026SenateCommitteeReported favorably.
- Apr 14, 2026SenateCommitteeRead second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C.
- Apr 13, 2026SenateReceived in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- Apr 9, 2026HouseFloorRead third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
- Apr 8, 2026HouseScheduled for floor debate on 04/09/2026.
- Apr 7, 2026HouseFloorRead by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- Apr 1, 2026HouseReported with amendments (10-0).
- Mar 9, 2026HouseIntroducedRead by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.
- Feb 13, 2026HousePrefiled.
- Feb 13, 2026HouseCommitteeUnder the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.
- Feb 13, 2026HouseFirst appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/13/2026.
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