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Read. Follow. Verify.Louisiana requires public schools and the Department of Education to publish detailed student assessment schedules online
Last action · June 2, 2026: Effective date: 06/02/2026.Sponsors: Neil Riser and 1 other
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What This Bill Does
Beginning in the 2026-2027 school year, the Louisiana Department of Education and public school governing authorities must publish and maintain detailed schedules of state and local student assessments on their websites without requiring login credentials. Local school boards must also submit assessment data to the department annually, and parents gain the right to receive these schedules and email notifications of any changes.
Parents will receive direct access and email updates regarding all mandated and local tests given to their children, while school districts must compile and publish public inventories detailing the exact time commitments, purposes, and vendor information for every assessment.
Who It Affects
Groups the bill's text affects, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
parents
Parents gain the right to receive school assessment schedules and email notifications regarding schedule revisions.
public school governing authorities
School boards must compile, publish, and annually review local assessment schedules and submit them to the state department.
Department of Education
The department must publish statewide assessment schedules, prescribe templates, compile district submissions, and report to legislative committees.
Key Facts
- Beginning in the 2026-2027 school year, the Department of Education must post a statewide mandated assessments schedule on its website no later than August first of each year.
- The statewide assessment schedule must exclude assessments required solely by a public school governing authority and must be accessible without a login or password.
- Public school governing authorities must maintain assessment schedules on their websites, including a direct hyperlink and PDF copy of the state schedule no later than ten business days after the department updates it.
- Public school governing authorities must post a schedule of all locally adopted or required benchmarks, interim assessments, and screeners no later than November first of each school year.
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- By November first of each school year, each public school governing authority must submit its assessment information to the Department of Education and publish an annual local assessment review report.
- The Department of Education must compile district submissions and transmit them to the House and Senate Committees on Education by December twentieth, and publish a PDF compilation online by January fifteenth.
- Under the Parents' Bill of Rights for Public Schools, parents have the right to receive applicable assessment schedules from public school governing authorities and be notified by email of any revisions.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Current status: Signed into law.
Procedural history
23 actions- Jun 2, 2026HouseEnrolledSigned by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 674.
- Jun 2, 2026HouseEffective date: 06/02/2026.
- May 28, 2026HouseSent to the Governor for executive approval.
- May 27, 2026HouseEnrolledEnrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- May 27, 2026SenateEnrolledSigned by the President of the Senate.
- May 26, 2026SenateRules suspended.
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- May 26, 2026SenateIntroducedRead by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- May 26, 2026SenateRules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- May 26, 2026SenateFloorRead by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
- May 26, 2026HouseReceived from the Senate without amendments.
- 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.
- May 7, 2026SenateCommitteeRead second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education.
- May 6, 2026HouseFloorRead third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
- May 6, 2026SenateReceived in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- May 5, 2026HouseFloorRead by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- May 5, 2026HouseScheduled for floor debate on 05/06/2026.
- Apr 29, 2026HouseReported with amendments (11-0).
- 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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