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HB342 • 2026

EDUCATION/SPECIAL: Provides that a local education agency shall have the burden of proof in any special education due process hearing relative to the appropriateness of a student's current or proposed program or placement (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)

EDUCATION/SPECIAL: Provides that a local education agency shall have the burden of proof in any special education due process hearing relative to the appropriateness of a student's current or proposed program or placement (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)

Education
Enacted

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

Sponsor
Alonzo Knox
Last action
2026-06-23
Official status
Became law without the Governor's signature - Act 943
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

EDUCATION/SPECIAL: Provides that a local education agency shall have the burden of proof in any special education due process hearing relative to the appropriateness of a student's current or proposed program or placement (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)

EDUCATION/SPECIAL: Provides that a local education agency shall have the burden of proof in any special education due process hearing relative to the appropriateness of a student's current or proposed program or placement (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)

What This Bill Does

  • EDUCATION/SPECIAL: Provides that a local education agency shall have the burden of proof in any special education due process hearing relative to the appropriateness of a student's current or proposed program or placement (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)

Limits and Unknowns

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Amendments

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Filed

Plain English: SSHB342 224 5965 HOUSE SUMMARY OF SENATE AMENDMENTS HB 342 2026 Regular Session Knox EDUCATION/SPECIAL: Provides that a local education agency shall have the burden of proof in any special education due process hearing relative to the appropriateness of a student's current or proposed program or placement Synopsis of Senate Amendments 1.

  • SSHB342 224 5965 HOUSE SUMMARY OF SENATE AMENDMENTS HB 342 2026 Regular Session Knox EDUCATION/SPECIAL: Provides that a local education agency shall have the burden of proof in any special education due process hearing relative to the appropriateness of a student's current or proposed program or placement Synopsis of Senate Amendments 1.
  • Revises provisions of proposed law that provide for the name of the Act.
  • Present law requires the state Dept.
  • of Education, the Special School District, and local education agencies to establish and maintain regulations and procedures in accordance with present law and the federal law (IDEA) to ensure that students with exceptionalities and their parents are provided procedural safeguards for the provision of free appropriate public education by such agencies, including provisions for special education due process hearings.
Adopted

Plain English: HFAHB342 224 3773 FOR OFFICE USE ONLY HOUSE FLOOR AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Amendments proposed by Representative Knox to Engrossed House Bill No.

  • HFAHB342 224 3773 FOR OFFICE USE ONLY HOUSE FLOOR AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Amendments proposed by Representative Knox to Engrossed House Bill No.
  • 342 by Representative Knox 1 AMENDMENT NO.
  • 1 2 On page 1, between lines 7 and 8, insert the following: 3 "Section 1.
  • This Act shall be known and may be cited as the "Erin Carpenter, 4 Corinth Corley, Landry Cravins, Zachry Edmonston, Carter Hart, Cameron Hogan, Vinaya 5 Martin, and Henry Lee Wray Act"." 6 AMENDMENT NO.
Filed

Plain English: 2026 Regular Session Sequence: 1731 HBS AMENDED BY SENATE TO BE CONCURRED IN HB 342 BY KNOX CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS Date: 5/29/2026 Time: 1:34:58 PM ROLL CALL The roll was called with the following result: YEAS Adams Amedee Bacala Bamburg Beaullieu Berault Billings Boudreaux Bourriaque Boyd Boyer Brass Braud Broussard Bryant Butler Carlson Carrier Carter, R.

  • 2026 Regular Session Sequence: 1731 HBS AMENDED BY SENATE TO BE CONCURRED IN HB 342 BY KNOX CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS Date: 5/29/2026 Time: 1:34:58 PM ROLL CALL The roll was called with the following result: YEAS Adams Amedee Bacala Bamburg Beaullieu Berault Billings Boudreaux Bourriaque Boyd Boyer Brass Braud Broussard Bryant Butler Carlson Carrier Carter, R.
  • Carter, W.
  • Carver Chassion Chenevert Coates Cox Crews Deshotel Dewitt Dickerson Domangue Echols Edmonston Egan Farnum Fisher Fontenot Freeman Freiberg Gadberry Galle Geymann Glorioso Green Hebert Henry, C.
  • Henry, D.
Adopted

Plain English: SCAHB342 428 4282 SENATE COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Amendments proposed by Senate Committee on Education to Reengrossed House Bill No.

  • SCAHB342 428 4282 SENATE COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Amendments proposed by Senate Committee on Education to Reengrossed House Bill No.
  • 342 by Representative Knox 1 AMENDMENT NO.
  • 1 2 On page 1, delete lines 8 through 10 and insert the following: 3 "Section 1.
  • This Act shall be known and may be cited as the "Vinaya Alexander, 4 Landry Bell, Noah Cannino, Erin Carpenter, Corinth Corley, Zachry Edmonston, Carter 5 Hart, Cameron Hogan, Eden Emily Robinson, Sammy Rollins, and Henry Lee Wray Act"." Page 1 of 1
Draft

Plain English: SCAHB342 1221 2311 SENATE COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Amendments proposed by Senate Committee on Education to Reengrossed House Bill No.

  • SCAHB342 1221 2311 SENATE COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Amendments proposed by Senate Committee on Education to Reengrossed House Bill No.
  • 342 by Representative Knox 1 AMENDMENT NO.
  • 1 2 On page 1, delete lines 8 through 10 and insert the following: 3 "Section 1.
  • This Act shall be known and may be cited as the "Vinaya Alexander, 4 Landry Bell, Noah Cannino, Erin Carpenter, Corinth Corley, Zachry Edmonston, Carter 5 Hart, Cameron Hogan, Eden Emily Robinson, Sammy Rollins, and Henry Lee Wray Act"." Page 1 of 1

Bill History

  1. 2026-06-23 H

    Effective date: 08/01/2026.

  2. 2026-06-23 H

    Becomes Act No. 943 without the Governor's signature.

  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 H

    Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.

  6. 2026-05-29 H

    Read by title, roll called, yeas 99, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.

  7. 2026-05-29 H

    Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2026.

  8. 2026-05-28 H

    Received from the Senate with amendments.

  9. 2026-05-27 S

    The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

  10. 2026-05-26 S

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

  11. 2026-05-25 S

    Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

  12. 2026-05-21 S

    Reported with amendments.

  13. 2026-04-20 S

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

  14. 2026-04-15 S

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

  15. 2026-04-14 H

    Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 2. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

  16. 2026-04-13 H

    Scheduled for floor debate on 04/14/2026.

  17. 2026-04-09 H

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

  18. 2026-04-08 H

    Reported favorably (11-0).

  19. 2026-03-09 H

    Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education.

  20. 2026-02-27 H

    First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.

  21. 2026-02-24 H

    Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education.

  22. 2026-02-24 H

    Prefiled.

Official Summary Text

EDUCATION/SPECIAL: Provides that a local education agency shall have the burden of proof in any special education due process hearing relative to the appropriateness of a student's current or proposed program or placement (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)

Current Bill Text

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ENROLLED
ACT No. 9432026 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 342
BY REPRESENTATIVES KNOX, ADAMS, AMEDEE, BAYHAM, BERAULT, BOYD,
BROUSSARD, CARPENTER, WILFORD CARTER, CARVER, CHASSION,
CHENEVERT, EDMONSTON, EGAN, FISHER, FREIBERG, GREEN,
JACKSON, TRAVIS JOHNSON, JORDAN, LACOMBE, TERRY LANDRY,
LARVADAIN, LYONS, MARCELLE, MARTINEZ, MENA, MOORE, NEWELL,
OWEN, PHELPS, SCHAMERHORN, SPELL, STAGNI, TAYLOR, VENTRELLA,
WALTERS, WILEY, WYBLE, YOUNG, AND ZERINGUE
1 AN ACT
2 To enact R.S. 17:1946(B)(3), relative to special education; to provide for special education
3 due process hearings; to provide that local education agencies shall have the burden
4 of proof in such hearings relative to the appropriateness of a student's current or
5 proposed placement or program; to provide for how the burden of proof shall be met;
6 and to provide for related matters.
7 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
8 Section 1. This Act shall be known and may be cited as the "Vinaya Alexander,
9 Landry Bell, Noah Cannino, Erin Carpenter, Corinth Corley, Zachry Edmonston, Carter
10 Hart, Cameron Hogan, Eden Emily Robinson, Sammy Rollins, and Henry Lee Wray Act".
11 Section 2. R.S. 17:1946(B)(3) is hereby enacted to read as follows:
12 §1946. Procedural safeguards
13 * * *
14 B.
15 * * *
16 (3) In any special education due process hearing, the local education agency
17 shall have the burden of proof, including the burden of persuasion and production,
18 relative to the appropriateness of a student's program or placement or the
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HB NO. 342 ENROLLED
1 appropriateness of the program or placement proposed by the agency. This burden
2 shall be met by a preponderance of the evidence.
3 * * *
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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