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HB351 • 2026

CORRECTIONS: Provides relative to the reentry preparation program (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

CORRECTIONS: Provides relative to the reentry preparation program (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

Crime
Enacted

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

Sponsor
Bryan Fontenot
Last action
2026-05-29
Official status
Signed by the Governor - Act 544
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide details on the impact or future plans regarding the removed entrepreneurial educational curriculum.

Repealing a Part of the Reentry Preparation Program Law

This law removes section (E) from Louisiana's reentry preparation program law, which was related to an entrepreneurial educational curriculum.

What This Bill Does

  • Removes section (E) from R.S. 15:827.1, which dealt with the reentry preparation program.
  • Gets rid of the part of the law that talked about teaching people starting businesses as they leave prison.

Who It Names or Affects

  • People involved in planning and running the reentry preparation program in Louisiana.
  • Prisoners and former prisoners who were supposed to get help starting businesses as part of their reentry plan.

Terms To Know

Reentry Preparation Program
A program that helps people leaving prison prepare for life outside by teaching them skills like job hunting, budgeting, and entrepreneurship.
Entrepreneurial Educational Curriculum
Classes or lessons designed to teach people how to start their own businesses.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The law does not specify what will happen to the part of the program that teaches entrepreneurship.
  • It is unclear if removing this section means other parts of the reentry preparation program are also changing or being removed.

Bill History

  1. 2026-05-29 H

    Effective date: 08/01/2026.

  2. 2026-05-29 H

    Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 544.

  3. 2026-05-28 H

    Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

  4. 2026-05-27 S

    Signed by the President of the Senate.

  5. 2026-05-27 H

    Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.

  6. 2026-05-26 H

    Received from the Senate without amendments.

  7. 2026-05-26 S

    Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

  8. 2026-05-26 S

    Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.

  9. 2026-05-06 S

    Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.

  10. 2026-04-27 S

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

  11. 2026-04-22 S

    Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

  12. 2026-04-21 S

    Reported favorably.

  13. 2026-03-30 S

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

  14. 2026-03-25 S

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

  15. 2026-03-25 H

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

  16. 2026-03-25 H

    Called from the calendar.

  17. 2026-03-25 H

    Read by title, returned to the calendar.

  18. 2026-03-23 H

    Scheduled for floor debate on 03/25/2026.

  19. 2026-03-23 H

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

  20. 2026-03-18 H

    Reported favorably (12-0).

  21. 2026-03-09 H

    Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.

  22. 2026-02-27 H

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

  23. 2026-02-24 H

    Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.

  24. 2026-02-24 H

    Prefiled.

Official Summary Text

CORRECTIONS: Provides relative to the reentry preparation program (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
ENROLLED
ACT No. 5442026 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 351
BY REPRESENTATIVE FONTENOT
1 AN ACT
2 To repeal R.S. 15:827.1(E), relative to reentry programs; to repeal the entrepreneurial
3 educational curriculum relative to the reentry preparation program.
4 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
5 Section 1. R.S. 15:827.1(E) is hereby repealed in its entirety.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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