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Read. Follow. Verify.Louisiana prohibits education agencies from contracting with foreign adversaries and terrorist organizations
Last action · June 8, 2026: Effective date: 06/08/2026.Sponsors: Beryl Amedée and 3 others
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What This Bill Does
Louisiana bans state and local education agencies from knowingly contracting or subcontracting with foreign adversaries, foreign terrorist organizations, or their agents. Education agencies must immediately suspend payments upon discovering a violation, notify the attorney general, and require new contract compliance notices starting July 1, 2026.
School boards, early learning centers, and educational vendors must alter contracting procedures and subcontractor screening to avoid contract termination, payment suspension, and debt recovery actions by the state.
- State legislatures have increasingly introduced bills to restrict public contracts and investments involving foreign adversaries and entities linked to international terrorist organizations. context
Who It Affects
Groups the bill's text affects, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Education Service Providers
Contractors must comply with foreign adversary prohibitions, include required notice clauses in contracts starting July 1, 2026, and face payment suspensions and potential debt collection if found in violation.
Vendors of Educational Products
Vendors selling goods, services, or technology directly to education agencies are barred from contracting if they have ties to foreign adversaries or terrorist organizations.
Local Public School Boards
School boards must screen contractors, include compliance statements in all contracts starting July 1, 2026, and immediately suspend payments and notify the attorney general upon discovering violations.
Key Facts
- Education agencies are prohibited from knowingly contracting with education service providers or educational product vendors who are foreign adversaries, foreign terrorist organizations, or agents thereof.
- Contractors and vendors are explicitly barred from knowingly subcontracting with foreign adversaries or foreign terrorist organizations.
- If an education agency learns a provider is a prohibited entity, it must immediately notify the attorney general and suspend payments pending due process.
- Disqualified providers and vendors must return any payments received on or after becoming ineligible under the new restrictions.
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- Beginning July 1, 2026, all education agency contracts must include compliance statements regarding these prohibitions and agreement to debt collection upon violations.
- Vendors and providers denied contracts or facing suspended payments retain administrative due process rights under the Louisiana Procurement Code or Public Bid Law.
- Unrecovered debts from disqualified contractors are turned over to the attorney general and the office of debt recovery within the Department of Revenue for collection.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Current status: Signed into law.
Procedural history
28 actions- Jun 8, 2026HouseEnrolledSigned by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 824.
- Jun 8, 2026HouseEffective date: 06/08/2026.
- Jun 1, 2026HouseSent to the Governor for executive approval.
- May 31, 2026SenateEnrolledSigned by the President of the Senate.
- May 29, 2026HouseEnrolledEnrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- May 28, 2026SenateCalled from the Calendar.
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- May 28, 2026SenateFloorRead by title, passed by a vote of 25 yeas and 7 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
- May 28, 2026HouseReceived from the Senate without amendments.
- May 27, 2026SenateIntroducedRead by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- May 26, 2026SenateFloorReported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- May 25, 2026SenateIntroducedRead by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- May 21, 2026SenateCommitteeReported favorably.
- Apr 22, 2026SenateCommitteeRead second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education.
- Apr 21, 2026SenateReceived in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- Apr 20, 2026HouseCalled from the calendar.
- Apr 20, 2026HouseIntroducedRead by title, returned to the calendar.
- Apr 20, 2026HouseCalled from the calendar.
- Apr 20, 2026HouseFloorRead third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 68, nays 24. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
- Apr 14, 2026HouseIntroducedRead by title, returned to the calendar.
- Apr 14, 2026HouseNotice given.
- Apr 14, 2026HouseScheduled for floor debate on 04/20/2026.
- Apr 13, 2026HouseScheduled for floor debate on 04/14/2026.
- Apr 9, 2026HouseFloorRead by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- Apr 8, 2026HouseReported with amendments (12-0).
- 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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