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HB134 • 2026

CONTRACTS: Provides relative to material harmful to minors (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX)

CONTRACTS: Provides relative to material harmful to minors (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX)

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Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Laurie Schlegel
Last action
2026-06-02
Official status
Signed by the Governor - Act 618
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The bill summary and digest do not provide specific details on how 'material harmful to minors' is defined or applied in practice.

Rules for Online Services and Minors

This act sets rules for online services to protect minors from harmful material by requiring them not to show or send such content created by the service itself.

What This Bill Does

  • Defines 'material harmful to minors' using existing Louisiana law.
  • Requires online services that make contracts with minors to stop showing or sending harmful material created by the service itself.
  • Allows the attorney general to fine companies up to $10,000 if they break these rules.
  • Gives companies 45 days to fix problems after getting a warning from the attorney general before legal action is taken.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Online services that make contracts with minors
  • Minors who use online services

Terms To Know

Interactive computer service
An online platform or website where users can interact and share content.
Material harmful to minors
Content that is illegal or not suitable for children under a certain age, as defined by Louisiana law.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The act does not specify what happens if the company does not fix problems within 45 days.
  • It's unclear how the definitions of 'material harmful to minors' will be applied in real situations.

Amendments

These notes stay tied to the official amendment files and metadata from the legislature.

Filed

Plain English: The amendment defines key terms related to material harmful to minors and sets restrictions on interactive computer services that contract with minors, including fines for violations.

  • Defines 'substantial portion' in relation to material harmful to minors.
  • Restricts interactive computer services containing a substantial amount of material harmful to minors from providing such content to minors through contracts.
  • Imposes civil fines up to $10,000 per violation for non-compliance with the restrictions.
  • The exact criteria for determining what constitutes a 'substantial portion' are not specified in the provided text.
Filed

Plain English: The amendment changes specific wording and removes certain lines related to contracts involving material harmful to minors.

  • Removes the phrase 'shall not' at line 17 on page 1 of the bill.
  • Changes '(1) Deliver' to just 'deliver' at the start of line 18 on page 1.
  • Adds 'to a minor account' after 'display' and before 'material' on line 18 of page 1.
  • Deletes lines 1 and 2 in their entirety from page 2.
  • The amendment also deletes lines 7 through 23 on page 2, but the exact content removed is not provided.
  • It changes '(4)' to '(2)' at line 24 of page 2, but without context it's unclear what this change affects.
Adopted

Plain English: The amendment changes specific wording and removes certain lines related to the delivery, display, and handling of material harmful to minors.

  • Removes the phrase '(1) Deliver' before 'deliver' on line 18.
  • Adds 'to a minor account' after 'display' and before 'material' on line 18.
  • Deletes lines 1 and 2 entirely from page 2.
  • Deletes lines 7 through 23 entirely from page 2.
  • The exact impact of these changes is not fully explained in the provided amendment text, so further context about the original bill's content would be needed to understand the full implications.
Filed

Plain English: 2026 Regular Session Sequence: 1231 HBS AMENDED BY SENATE TO BE CONCURRED IN HB 134 BY SCHLEGEL REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS Date: 5/13/2026 Time: 2:29:43 PM ROLL CALL The roll was called with the following result: YEAS Mr.

  • 2026 Regular Session Sequence: 1231 HBS AMENDED BY SENATE TO BE CONCURRED IN HB 134 BY SCHLEGEL REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS Date: 5/13/2026 Time: 2:29:43 PM ROLL CALL The roll was called with the following result: YEAS Mr.
  • Speaker Adams Amedee Bacala Bagley Bamburg Bayham Beaullieu Berault Billings Boudreaux Bourriaque Boyd Boyer Brass Braud Broussard Bryant Butler Carrier Carter, R.
  • Carter, W.
  • Carver Chassion Chenevert Coates Cox Crews Deshotel Dewitt Dickerson Domangue Edmonston Farnum Firment Fisher Fontenot Freeman Freiberg Gadberry Galle Geymann Glorioso Green Hebert Henry, C.
Adopted

Plain English: The amendment adds a definition for 'substantial portion' and modifies the existing text to include conditions related to material harmful to minors.

  • Adds a new definition: 'Substantial portion' means more than thirty-three and one-third percent.
  • Modifies an existing clause by adding that it applies when a service contains a substantial portion of material harmful to minors.
  • The amendment text does not provide further context on what constitutes 'material harmful to minors'.

Bill History

  1. 2026-06-02 H

    Effective date: 01/01/2027.

  2. 2026-06-02 H

    Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 618.

  3. 2026-06-01 H

    Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

  4. 2026-06-01 S

    Signed by the President of the Senate.

  5. 2026-05-31 S

    Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.

  6. 2026-05-31 H

    Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.

  7. 2026-05-29 H

    Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.

  8. 2026-05-29 H

    Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 93, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.

  9. 2026-05-29 H

    Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.

  10. 2026-05-29 S

    Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays.

  11. 2026-05-28 H

    Scheduled for floor debate on 05/29/2026.

  12. 2026-05-28 S

    Conference committee report received.

  13. 2026-05-28 H

    Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules.

  14. 2026-05-25 H

    Notice of Senate conferees appointed.

  15. 2026-05-21 S

    Senate conference committee members appointed: Talbot, Luneau, and Seabaugh.

  16. 2026-05-19 S

    Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.

  17. 2026-05-19 H

    House conferees appointed: Schlegel, Muscarello, and Villio.

  18. 2026-05-13 S

    Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.

  19. 2026-05-13 H

    Read by title, roll called, yeas 97, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.

  20. 2026-05-12 H

    Scheduled for concurrence on 05/13/2026.

  21. 2026-05-12 H

    Received from the Senate with amendments.

  22. 2026-05-11 S

    Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

  23. 2026-05-04 S

    Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.

  24. 2026-04-29 S

    Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

  25. 2026-04-28 S

    Reported favorably.

  26. 2026-04-08 S

    Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A.

  27. 2026-04-07 S

    Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

  28. 2026-04-07 H

    Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

  29. 2026-04-01 H

    Scheduled for floor debate on 04/07/2026.

  30. 2026-03-31 H

    Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.

  31. 2026-03-30 H

    Reported with amendments (5-0-1).

  32. 2026-03-09 H

    Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure.

  33. 2026-02-13 H

    First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/13/2026.

  34. 2026-02-13 H

    Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure.

  35. 2026-02-13 H

    Prefiled.

Official Summary Text

CONTRACTS: Provides relative to material harmful to minors (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX)

Current Bill Text

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ENROLLED
ACT No. 6182026 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 134
BY REPRESENTATIVES SCHLEGEL AND EDMONSTON
1 AN ACT
2 To enact R.S. 9:2717.2.1, relative to material harmful to minors, to provide relative to
3 interactive computer services that enter into a contract with a minor; to provide
4 relative to the delivery or display of material harmful to minors; to provide relative
5 to algorithmic systems and the delivery of material harmful to minors; to provide for
6 definitions; to provide for penalties; to provide for an effective date; and to provide
7 for related matters.
8 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
9 Section 1. R.S. 9:2717.2.1 is hereby enacted to read as follows:
10 §2717.2.1. Display or delivery of material harmful to minors
11 A. For purposes of this Section, the following terms apply:
12 (1) "Account", "interactive computer service", and "minor" have the same
13 meanings as provided in R.S. 9:2717.2.
14 (2) "Material harmful to minors" has the same meaning as provided in R.S.
15 51:2121.
16 B. An interactive computer service that enters into a contract with a minor,
17 including the creation of an online account, shall not deliver or display to a minor
18 account material harmful to minors that was created or developed, in whole or in
19 part, by the interactive computer service.
20 C.(1) Any interactive computer service that violates the provisions of this
21 Section shall be subject to a civil fine of up to ten thousand dollars per violation set
22 and enforced by the attorney general by filing a civil enforcement action in a court
23 of competent jurisdiction.
24 (2)(a) Prior to filing a civil enforcement action, the attorney general shall
25 provide the interactive computer service with a written notice that identifies each
26 alleged violation and an explanation of the basis for each allegation.
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1 (b) The interactive computer service may cure the alleged violations by
2 providing the attorney general with a written statement, within forty-five days of
3 receipt of the notice provided pursuant to Subparagraph (a) of this Paragraph,
4 indicating that the violation is cured and no further violations will occur.
5 (c) Except as provided in Paragraph (3) of this Subsection, the attorney
6 general shall not file a civil enforcement action if the interactive computer service
7 timely cures the alleged violations as provided by Subparagraph (b) of this
8 Paragraph.
9 (3) The attorney general may file a civil enforcement action against an
10 interactive computer service that does either of the following:
11 (a) Fails to cure a violation after receiving the written notice described in
12 Subparagraph (2)(a) of this Subsection.
13 (b) Commits another violation after receiving the written notice described
14 in Subparagraph (2)(a) of this Subsection.
15 (4) If a court of competent jurisdiction grants judgment or injunctive relief
16 to the attorney general, the court shall award the attorney general reasonable attorney
17 fees, court costs, and investigative costs.
18 D. All monies received from the payment of a fine or civil penalty imposed
19 and collected pursuant to the provisions of this Section shall be used by the attorney
20 general for consumer protection efforts or to promote consumer protection and
21 education.
22 Section 2. The provisions of this Act shall become effective on January 1, 2027.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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