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Read. Follow. Verify.Louisiana Establishes Paid Family Leave Insurance Act to Provide Wage Replacement
Last action · June 8, 2026: Effective date: 06/08/2026.Sponsors: Kyle Green and 1 other
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What This Bill Does
Louisiana enacted the Paid Family Leave Insurance Act, allowing licensed life or disability insurers to offer paid family leave policies and s that provide for employee absences unrelated to the insured's own disability.
Enables workers to purchase or receive employer-provided insurance policies that pay a percentage of lost wages during family caregiving, child bonding, or military family emergencies, with minimum benefit durations of at least two weeks per year.
Who It Affects
Groups the bill's text affects, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Employees
Employees become eligible to receive wage replacement insurance benefits during qualifying family leave absences.
Insurers
Life and disability insurance companies are authorized to issue new paid family leave insurance policies and riders.
Employers
Employers may be issued family leave insurance policies related to benefit programs provided to employees.
Key Facts
- The Act creates a new line of insurance known as paid family leave insurance, which can be issued by any insurer licensed to transact life or disability income insurance in Louisiana.
- Paid family leave benefits provide wage replacement for employee absences caused by reasons such as the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child, caring for a family member with a serious health condition, or military active-duty exigencies.
- Insurance policies must provide family leave benefits for a duration of no less than two weeks during a period of fifty-two consecutive calendar weeks.
- Policies may specify terms and conditions for an unpaid waiting period, premium calculations based on federal Social Security Act guidelines, and wage offset rules.
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- Eligibility for benefits can be limited or excluded under conditions such as lack of required notice, intentional self-inflicted harm to a family member, performing work for remuneration during leave, or receiving other statutory or employer-sponsored benefits.
Frequently Asked Questions
What insurers are authorized to offer paid family leave insurance?
What reasons qualify an employee for family leave benefits under this Act?
What is the minimum duration required for family leave benefits?
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Current status: Signed into law.
Procedural history
22 actions- Jun 8, 2026HouseEnrolledSigned by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 817.
- Jun 8, 2026HouseEffective date: 06/08/2026.
- Jun 1, 2026SenateEnrolledSigned by the President of the Senate.
- Jun 1, 2026HouseSent to the Governor for executive approval.
- May 31, 2026HouseEnrolledEnrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- May 29, 2026HouseIntroducedRead by title, roll called, yeas 93, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
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- May 27, 2026HouseScheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2026.
- May 26, 2026SenateFloorRules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
- May 26, 2026HouseReceived from the Senate with amendments.
- May 25, 2026SenateFloorReported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- May 21, 2026SenateFloorCommittee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- May 20, 2026SenateReported with amendments.
- Apr 13, 2026SenateCommitteeRead second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance.
- Apr 8, 2026HouseFloorRead third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
- Apr 8, 2026SenateReceived in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- Apr 7, 2026HouseScheduled for floor debate on 04/08/2026.
- Apr 1, 2026HouseFloorRead by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- Mar 31, 2026HouseReported with amendments (14-0).
- Mar 9, 2026HouseIntroducedRead by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance.
- Feb 27, 2026HouseFirst appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.
- Feb 26, 2026HousePrefiled.
- Feb 26, 2026HouseCommitteeUnder the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance.
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- Controversy30Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
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