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Read. Follow. Verify.Louisiana requires all public entities created by law to video record and live broadcast public meetings
Last action · March 9, 2026: Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.Sponsor: Alonzo Knox
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What This Bill Proposed
Louisiana House Bill 627 mandates that every public entity created by law must video record and all proceedings during public meetings via the internet or television. The requirement excludes s and excuses public bodies from violations caused by uncontrollable technological failures.
Expands public visibility into state and local government operations by establishing a universal live-streaming and video-recording mandate for legally created public entities, with exceptions for closed s and technical difficulties.
- Louisiana's Open Meetings Law governs transparency and public access requirements for state and local government boards and commissions. context
- Existing statutes previously mandated live broadcasts and recordings for specific subsets of public bodies, such as tax-levying nonelected boards and governing authorities in jurisdictions above specific population thresholds. context
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Public entities created by law
Must implement video recording and live broadcasting equipment and procedures for all public meetings.
Louisiana residents
Gain real-time or near real-time internet and television access to public meetings held by entities created by law.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Which organizations must now video record and broadcast their meetings?
Are closed-door or executive sessions subject to the live broadcast mandate?
What happens if a technical failure prevents a public body from broadcasting a meeting?
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · in House committee.
Procedural history
4 actions- Mar 9, 2026HouseIntroducedRead by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
- Feb 27, 2026HousePrefiled.
- Feb 27, 2026HouseCommitteeUnder the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
- Feb 27, 2026HouseFirst appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.
Version history
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Universal Live-Streaming Mandate
Shifts Louisiana public meeting laws from targeted broadcasting requirements for specific population thresholds or tax-levying boards to a broad mandate covering all public entities created by law.
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Sources
www.legis.la.gov
Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 65)
- Controversy20Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz30Current news / social attention level
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