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IntroducedFeb 25, 2026
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Passed HouseApr 09, 2026
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Passed Senate
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Became Law
Louisiana House Bill
CHILDREN/DCFS: Requires the Department of Children and Family Services to obtain background checks on all employees (EG1 INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Last Action See all actions
Senate • May 11, 2026: Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
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Senate Calendar: House Bills 3rd Reading and Final Passage
Position: 28
Summary
Comments on HB 420
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Votes
YES: 95
- Phillip R. DeVillier
- Echols
- Mack
- Adams
- Edmonston
- Marcelle
- Amedee
- Egan
- McCormick
- Bacala
- Farnum
- McMahen
- Bagley
- Firment
- McMakin
- Bamburg
- Fisher
- Melerine
- Bayham
- Fontenot
- Mena
- Beaullieu
- Freeman
- Miller
- Berault
- Freiberg
- Moore
- Billings
- Gadberry
- Murray
- Boudreaux
- Galle
- Newell
- Bourriaque
- Geymann
- Orgeron
- Boyd
- Glorioso
- Owen
- Boyer
- Green
- Phelps
- Brass
- Hebert
- Riser
- Braud
- Henry, C.
- Sawyer
- Broussard
- Henry, D.
- Schamerhorn
- Bryant
- Hilferty
- Schlegel
- Butler
- Horton
- Spell
- Carlson
- Illg
- St. Blanc
- Carpenter
- Jackson
- Tarver
- Carrier
- Johnson, M.
- Taylor
- Carter, R.
- Johnson, T.
- Thomas
- Carver
- Jordan
- Thompson
- Chassion
- Kerner
- Turner
- Chenevert
- Knox
- Ventrella
- Coates
- LaCombe
- Villio
- Cox
- LaFleur
- Wilder
- Crews
- Landry, M.
- Wright
- Deshotel
- Landry, T.
- Wyble
- Dewitt
- Larvadain
- Zeringue
- Domangue
- Lyons
NO: 1
Actions
- May 11, 2026 | Senate
- Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- May 07, 2026 | Senate
- Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- May 06, 2026 | Senate
- Reported with amendments.
- Apr 14, 2026 | Senate
- Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.
- Apr 13, 2026 | Senate
- Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- Apr 09, 2026 | House
- Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
- Apr 08, 2026 | House
- Scheduled for floor debate on 04/09/2026.
- Apr 07, 2026 | House
- Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- Apr 01, 2026 | House
- Reported favorably (9-0).
- Mar 09, 2026 | House
- Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.
- Feb 27, 2026 | House
- First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.
- Feb 25, 2026 | House
- Prefiled.
- Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.

