HB50 • 2026

SUNSET LAW: Re-creates the Department of Education

Education

Enacted

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

Sponsor: Laurie Schlegel
Last action: 2026-05-11
Official status: Signed by the Governor - Act 47
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material did not provide specific details on what happens if the Department of Education is not re-created by July 1, 2031 or how it can be re-created before its termination date.

Re-creating the Department of Education

This act re-establishes and sets a future termination date for the Louisiana Department of Education starting June 30, 2026.

What This Bill Does

Restores the existence of the Department of Education starting June 30, 2026.
Sets July 1, 2031 as the end date when the department will no longer exist unless re-created earlier.

Who It Names or Affects

The Department of Education and its related entities in Louisiana.

Terms To Know

Statutory authority: Legal permission given by a law to create or maintain an organization like the Department of Education.
Termination date: The specific day when something, such as a department's existence under law, ends.

Limits and Unknowns

It is unclear what will happen to the Department of Education after July 1, 2031 if it has not been re-created earlier.
This act does not specify how or when the Department can be re-created before its termination date.

Bill History

2026-05-11 H
Effective date: 06/30/2026.
2026-05-11 H
Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 47.
2026-05-11 H
Sent to the Governor for executive approval.
2026-05-11 S
Signed by the President of the Senate on 5/7/2026.
2026-05-08 H
Sent to the Governor for executive approval.
2026-05-07 H
Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
2026-05-07 H
Received from the Senate without amendments.
2026-05-06 S
Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
2026-04-28 S
Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
2026-04-27 S
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
2026-04-22 S
Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
2026-03-25 S
Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education.
2026-03-24 S
Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
2026-03-24 H
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
2026-03-23 H
Scheduled for floor debate on 03/24/2026.
2026-03-23 H
Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
2026-03-18 H
Reported favorably (13-0).
2026-03-09 H
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education.
2026-01-30 H
First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 1/30/2026.
2026-01-27 H
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education.
2026-01-27 H
Prefiled.

Official Summary Text

SUNSET LAW: Re-creates the Department of Education

Current Bill Text

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ENROLLED
ACT No. 472026 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 50
BY REPRESENTATIVE SCHLEGEL
1 AN ACT
2 To enact R.S. 49:191(3)(b) and to repeal R.S. 49:191(1)(g), relative to the Department of
3 Education, including provisions to provide for the re-creation of the Department of
4 Education and the statutory entities made a part of the department by law; to provide
5 for the effective termination date for all statutory authority for the existence of such
6 statutory entities; to provide for an effective date; and to provide for related matters.
7 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
8 Section 1. Pursuant to R.S. 49:193, the Department of Education and the statutory
9 entities made a part of the department by law shall be re-created effective June 30, 2026, and
10 all statutory authority therefor is continued in accordance with the provisions of Part XII of
11 Chapter 1 of Title 49 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950.
12 Section 2. All statutory authority for the existence of the Department of Education
13 and the statutory entities made a part of the department as re-created by Section 1 of this Act
14 shall cease as of July 1, 2031, pursuant to R.S. 49:191. However, the Department of
15 Education may be re-created prior to such date in accordance with the provisions of Part XII
16 of Chapter 1 of Title 49 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950.
17 Section 3. The provisions of R.S. 49:193 are hereby superseded to the extent that
18 those provisions are in conflict with the provisions of this Act.
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HB NO. 50 ENROLLED
1 Section 4. R.S. 49:191(3)(b) is hereby enacted to read as follows:
2 §191. Termination of legislative authority for existence of statutory entities; phase-
3 out period for statutory entities; table of dates
4 Notwithstanding any termination dates set by any previous Act of the
5 legislature, the statutory entities set forth in this Section shall begin to terminate their
6 operations on July first of each of the following years, and all legislative authority
7 for the existence of any statutory entity, as defined in R.S. 49:190, shall cease as of
8 July first of the following year, which shall be the termination date:
9 * * *
10 (3) July 1, 2030:
11 * * *
12 (b) The Department of Education and all statutory entities made a part of the
13 department by law.
14 * * *
15 Section 5. R.S. 49:191(1)(g) is hereby repealed in its entirety.
16 Section 6. This Act shall become effective on June 30, 2026; if vetoed by the
17 governor and subsequently approved by the legislature, this Act shall become effective on
18 June 30, 2026, or on the day following such approval by the legislature, whichever is later.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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