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Read. Follow. Verify.Louisiana makes college athlete compensation contracts and revenue-sharing details confidential
Last action · June 8, 2026: Effective date: 08/01/2026.Sponsors: Tehmi Chassion and 7 others
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What This Bill Does
Louisiana enacts a law making student-athlete compensation contracts, individual payment amounts, and sport-specific allocations confidential and exempt from public records requests, while keeping total institutional revenue-sharing spending public.
Changes public access rights by shielding specific athlete payouts and contract negotiations from public view at state postsecondary institutions, effective August 1, 2026.
- State universities have increasingly engaged in revenue sharing with student-athletes following evolving collegiate sports regulations and legal rulings. context
Who It Affects
Groups the bill's text affects, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Postsecondary education institutions
Colleges and universities must withhold specific athlete compensation and negotiation documents from public records requests while disclosing total annual revenue-sharing expenditures.
Intercollegiate athletes
Student-athletes have their contract terms, negotiation records, and individual payout amounts shielded from public inspection.
Public records requesters
Individuals and media requesting public records are prohibited from inspecting or copying specific athlete compensation contracts, individual payouts, and sport-specific allocations.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Can the public still see how much a university spends in total on athletic revenue sharing?
Are individual athlete contracts available through public records requests?
Does this law apply to past records or only future ones?
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Current status: Signed into law.
Procedural history
28 actions- Jun 8, 2026HouseEnrolledSigned by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 818.
- Jun 8, 2026HouseEffective date: 08/01/2026.
- 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 92, nays 2, Senate amendments concurred in..
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- May 27, 2026HouseScheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2026.
- May 26, 2026SenateFloorRules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 22 yeas and 13 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
- May 26, 2026HouseReceived from the Senate with 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.
- Apr 27, 2026SenateCommitteeRead second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education.
- Apr 22, 2026HouseCalled from the calendar.
- Apr 22, 2026HouseFloorRead third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, nays 4. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
- Apr 22, 2026SenateReceived in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- Apr 21, 2026HouseIntroducedRead by title, returned to the calendar.
- Apr 21, 2026HouseNotice given.
- Apr 21, 2026HouseScheduled for floor debate on 04/22/2026.
- Apr 20, 2026HouseScheduled for floor debate on 04/21/2026.
- Apr 15, 2026HouseFloorRead by title, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- Apr 14, 2026HouseCommitteeReported favorably (9-3).
- Apr 7, 2026HouseIntroducedRead by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
- Apr 1, 2026HouseReported with amendments (11-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
- 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 26, 2026HousePrefiled.
- Feb 26, 2026HouseCommitteeUnder the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education.
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Public Records Exemption for Athlete Compensation
The state explicitly carves out specific intercollegiate athlete financial records from general public records transparency while preserving institutional spending totals.
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www.legis.la.gov
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- Controversy45Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment10Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz35Current news / social attention level
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