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Read. Follow. Verify.Louisiana requires middle and elementary schools to provide career awareness activities aligned with workforce priorities
Last action · May 15, 2026: Effective date: 08/01/2026.Sponsors: Kim Carver and 28 others
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What This Bill Does
Louisiana schools serving kindergarten through eighth grade must now provide structured career exploration activities each school year, with middle schools required to conduct at least six activities annually aligned with state workforce priorities. The measure also mandates career interest inventories, documentation in student graduation plans, and applies these requirements to charter schools.
Public school students across Louisiana will participate in mandatory career exploration and employer interaction events starting in kindergarten, and school boards must certify compliance annually to the state.
Who It Affects
Groups the bill's text affects, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
public school students
Students in kindergarten through eighth grade must participate in mandatory career awareness activities, career interest inventories, and have activities documented in their graduation plans.
public school governing authorities
School boards must select activities aligned with high-demand sectors, maintain auditable records, and certify annual compliance to the state Department of Education.
charter schools
Charter schools lose their statutory exemption from career-related education mandates and must now comply with the same career activity requirements as traditional public schools.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Current status: Signed into law.
Procedural history
20 actions- May 15, 2026HouseEnrolledSigned by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 144.
- May 15, 2026HouseEffective date: 08/01/2026.
- May 14, 2026SenateEnrolledSigned by the President of the Senate.
- May 14, 2026HouseSent to the Governor for executive approval.
- May 13, 2026HouseReceived from the Senate without amendments.
- May 13, 2026HouseEnrolledEnrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
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- May 12, 2026SenateFloorRules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
- May 5, 2026SenateFloorReported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- May 4, 2026SenateIntroducedRead by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- Apr 29, 2026SenateCommitteeRules suspended. Reported favorably.
- Mar 31, 2026SenateCommitteeRead second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education.
- Mar 30, 2026SenateReceived in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- Mar 25, 2026HouseFloorRead third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
- Mar 23, 2026HouseFloorRead by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- Mar 23, 2026HouseScheduled for floor debate on 03/25/2026.
- Mar 18, 2026HouseReported with amendments (13-0).
- Mar 9, 2026HouseIntroducedRead by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education.
- Feb 27, 2026HouseFirst appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.
- Feb 23, 2026HousePrefiled.
- Feb 23, 2026HouseCommitteeUnder the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education.
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Expansion of Career Mandates to Charter Schools
The bill explicitly revokes previous statutory exemptions for charter schools regarding career-related student activities, bringing them under the same rules as traditional public schools.
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Sources
www.legis.la.gov
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