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Read. Follow. Verify.Louisiana requires all-party notification for covert wearable video recordings of direct conversations
Last action · June 25, 2026: Effective date: 08/01/2026.Sponsors: Laurie Schlegel and 1 other
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What This Bill Does
Louisiana requires individuals using wearable recording devices such as smart glasses to notify all participants before videoing, recording, or transcribing s, effective August 1, 2026. Violators face civil liability for damages, court costs, and attorney fees when from unlawful recording and dissemination are demonstrated. The statute exempts public meetings, law enforcement activities, emergencies, recordings made in a person's own residence or vehicle, and evidence-gathering for criminal or civil proceedings.
Residents using smart glasses or similar wearable recording gear in private or semi-private discussions face civil lawsuits and financial liability if they capture conversations without explicit prior notice to everyone involved.
Who It Affects
Groups the bill's text affects, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Individuals using wearable recording devices
Must provide specific prior notice to all conversation participants before recording or face civil liability and damages.
Participants in direct conversations
Gains the right to receive notification before being recorded via wearable devices and may sue for damages if unlawfully recorded.
Law enforcement officers
Official activities are explicitly exempted from the all-party notification restrictions while performing duties.
Key Facts
- Requires any participant in a direct conversation using a wearable eyeglass recording device to specifically notify all participants before videoing, recording, or transcribing the conversation.
- Establishes civil liability for violators, making them liable for damages, court costs, and reasonable attorney fees upon demonstrating actual damages from unlawful recording and dissemination.
- Exempts public or semi-public meetings, law enforcement activities, emergencies, and first responder activities from the notification requirement.
- Exempts recordings of public officials performing official duties in public places, as well as recordings made to preserve evidence of public corruption or malfeasance in office.
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- Exempts private citizens recording law enforcement officers in public places or where the citizen has a legal right to be, provided the individual does not physically interfere or materially obstruct the activity.
- Exempts recordings made to preserve evidence related to an actual or anticipated civil, administrative, or criminal proceeding.
- Exempts recordings made by a participant in their own residence, place of business, employment, or vehicle (or an employer's vehicle), and recordings where the person recording is not a participant.
- Exempts incidental, unintended, or background capture of individuals or conversations occurring in public places where recording is not specifically directed at them.
- Takes effect on August 1, 2026.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Current status: Became law without the governor's signature.
Procedural history
33 actions- Jun 25, 2026HouseBecomes Act No. 965 without the Governor's signature.
- Jun 25, 2026HouseEffective date: 08/01/2026.
- Jun 4, 2026HouseSent to the Governor for executive approval.
- Jun 1, 2026HouseIntroducedRead by title, reconsidered, returned to the calendar, under the rules.
- Jun 1, 2026HouseCalled from the calendar.
- Jun 1, 2026HouseIntroducedRead by title, roll called, yeas 62, nays 27, Senate amendments concurred in.
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- Jun 1, 2026HouseEnrolledEnrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- Jun 1, 2026SenateEnrolledSigned by the President of the Senate on 6/2/2026.
- May 31, 2026HouseIntroducedRead by title, roll called, yeas 46, nays 38, Senate amendments were not concurred in.
- May 31, 2026HouseMotion to reconsider pending.
- May 29, 2026SenateCalled from the Calendar.
- May 29, 2026SenateFloorSenate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 30 yeas and 6 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
- May 29, 2026HouseReceived from the Senate with amendments.
- May 29, 2026HouseScheduled for concurrence on 05/31/2026.
- May 26, 2026SenateRules suspended.
- May 26, 2026SenateIntroducedRead by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- May 21, 2026SenateFloorReported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- May 20, 2026SenateFloorCommittee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- May 19, 2026SenateReported with amendments.
- Apr 14, 2026SenateCommitteeRead second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A.
- Apr 13, 2026SenateReceived in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- Apr 9, 2026HouseCalled from the calendar.
- Apr 9, 2026HouseFloorRead third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 54, nays 34. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
- Apr 8, 2026HouseNotice given.
- Apr 8, 2026HouseScheduled for floor debate on 04/09/2026.
- Apr 7, 2026HouseIntroducedRead by title, amended, returned to the calendar.
- Apr 1, 2026HouseScheduled for floor debate on 04/07/2026.
- Mar 31, 2026HouseFloorRead by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- Mar 30, 2026HouseReported with amendments (6-0-1).
- Mar 9, 2026HouseIntroducedRead by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure.
- Feb 27, 2026HouseFirst appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.
- Feb 25, 2026HousePrefiled.
- Feb 25, 2026HouseCommitteeUnder the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure.
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New Civil Liability for Wearable Recording Devices
The statute creates a specific civil remedy for individuals covertly filmed via smart glasses or wearable tech without consent during direct conversations.
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Sources
www.legis.la.gov
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