HB608 • 2026

ATHLETICS: Provides relative to the confidentiality of documents related to an intercollegiate athletics revenue sharing program

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Enacted

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

Sponsor: Tehmi Chassion
Last action: 2026-06-08
Official status: Signed by the Governor - Act 818
Effective date: Not listed

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ATHLETICS: Provides relative to the confidentiality of documents related to an intercollegiate athletics revenue sharing program

What This Bill Does

ATHLETICS: Provides relative to the confidentiality of documents related to an intercollegiate athletics revenue sharing program

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Amendments

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Summary of Senate Amendments to HB608

Filed

Plain English: SSHB608 3391 6115 HOUSE SUMMARY OF SENATE AMENDMENTS HB 608 2026 Regular Session Chassion ATHLETICS: Provides relative to the confidentiality of documents related to an intercollegiate athletics revenue sharing program Synopsis of Senate Amendments 1.

SSHB608 3391 6115 HOUSE SUMMARY OF SENATE AMENDMENTS HB 608 2026 Regular Session Chassion ATHLETICS: Provides relative to the confidentiality of documents related to an intercollegiate athletics revenue sharing program Synopsis of Senate Amendments 1.
Adds retroactive applicability to all records, documents, information, and requests for disclosure existing, created, or pending on or after the effective date of proposed law.
2.
Adds provisions providing that proposed law is intended to clarify and confirm the confidentiality of the records and information described in present law and proposed law.

House Committee Amendment #2996 EDUC Adopted

Adopted

Plain English: HCAHB608 3391 2996 HOUSE COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Amendments proposed by House Committee on Education to Original House Bill No.

HCAHB608 3391 2996 HOUSE COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Amendments proposed by House Committee on Education to Original House Bill No.
608 by Representative Chassion 1 AMENDMENT NO.
1 2 On page 1, delete lines 16 through 20 and insert the following: 3 "(2) The total amount of revenue expended by a postsecondary education 4 institution during each fiscal year as part of an intercollegiate athletics revenue 5 sharing program is subject to public disclosure.
However, the following records and 6 information are not subject to public disclosure and not subject to inspection, 7 examination, copying, or reproduction pursuant to the Public Records Law: 8 (a) The total amount, and any percentage amount, of those revenue funds 9 paid as part of a postsecondary education institution's athletics revenue sharing 10 program to any specific intercollegiate athlete.

House Committee Amendment #2920 EDUC Draft

Draft

Plain English: HCAHB608 3391 2920 HOUSE COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Amendments proposed by House Committee on Education to Original House Bill No.

HCAHB608 3391 2920 HOUSE COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Amendments proposed by House Committee on Education to Original House Bill No.
608 by Representative Chassion 1 AMENDMENT NO.
1 2 On page 1, delete lines 16 through 20 and insert the following: 3 "(2) The total amount of revenue expended by a postsecondary education 4 institution during each fiscal year as part of an intercollegiate athletics revenue 5 sharing program is subject to public disclosure.
However, the following records and 6 information are not subject to public disclosure and not subject to inspection, 7 examination, copying, or reproduction pursuant to the Public Records Law: 8 (a) The total amount, and any percentage amount, of those revenue funds 9 paid as part of a postsecondary education institution's athletics revenue-sharing 10 program to any specific intercollegiate athlete.

House Vote on HB 608 CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1691)

Filed

Plain English: 2026 Regular Session Sequence: 1691 HBS AMENDED BY SENATE TO BE CONCURRED IN HB 608 BY CHASSION CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS Date: 5/29/2026 Time: 11:18:22 AM 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 Carver Chassion Chenevert Coates Cox Crews Deshotel Dewitt Dickerson Domangue Echols Edmonston Egan Farnum Firment Fisher Fontenot Freiberg Gadberry Galle Geymann Glorioso Green Hebert Henry, C.

2026 Regular Session Sequence: 1691 HBS AMENDED BY SENATE TO BE CONCURRED IN HB 608 BY CHASSION CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS Date: 5/29/2026 Time: 11:18:22 AM 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 Carver Chassion Chenevert Coates Cox Crews Deshotel Dewitt Dickerson Domangue Echols Edmonston Egan Farnum Firment Fisher Fontenot Freiberg Gadberry Galle Geymann Glorioso Green Hebert Henry, C.
Henry, D.
Horton Illg Jackson Johnson, M.
Johnson, T.

Senate Floor Amendment #3992 Foil Adopted

Adopted

Plain English: SFAHB608 1427 3992 SENATE FLOOR AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Amendments proposed by Senator Foil to Engrossed House Bill No.

SFAHB608 1427 3992 SENATE FLOOR AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Amendments proposed by Senator Foil to Engrossed House Bill No.
608 by Representative Chassion 1 AMENDMENT NO.
1 2 On page 1, line 4, after "records exception;" and before "and to" insert "to provide for 3 applicability;" 4 AMENDMENT NO.
2 5 On page 2, after line 13, insert the following: 6 "Section 2.

Bill History

2026-06-08 H
Effective date: 08/01/2026.
2026-06-08 H
Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 818.
2026-06-01 H
Sent to the Governor for executive approval.
2026-06-01 S
Signed by the President of the Senate.
2026-05-31 H
Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
2026-05-29 H
Read by title, roll called, yeas 92, nays 2, Senate amendments concurred in..
2026-05-27 H
Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2026.
2026-05-26 H
Received from the Senate with amendments.
2026-05-26 S
Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 22 yeas and 13 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
2026-05-20 S
Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
2026-05-19 S
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
2026-05-18 S
Reported favorably.
2026-04-27 S
Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education.
2026-04-22 S
Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
2026-04-22 H
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, nays 4. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
2026-04-22 H
Called from the calendar.
2026-04-21 H
Scheduled for floor debate on 04/22/2026.
2026-04-21 H
Notice given.
2026-04-21 H
Read by title, returned to the calendar.
2026-04-20 H
Scheduled for floor debate on 04/21/2026.
2026-04-15 H
Read by title, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
2026-04-14 H
Reported favorably (9-3).
2026-04-07 H
Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
2026-04-01 H
Reported with amendments (11-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
2026-03-09 H
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education.
2026-02-27 H
First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.
2026-02-26 H
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education.
2026-02-26 H
Prefiled.

Official Summary Text

ATHLETICS: Provides relative to the confidentiality of documents related to an intercollegiate athletics revenue sharing program

Current Bill Text

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ENROLLED
ACT No. 8182026 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 608
BY REPRESENTATIVES CHASSION, BOYD, LYONS, MACK, NEWELL,
SCHAMERHORN, WRIGHT, AND WYBLE
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 17:3703(M), relative to compensation for intercollegiate
3 athletics; to provide relative to an intercollegiate athletics revenue sharing program;
4 to provide relative to public records; to create a public records exception; to provide
5 for applicability; and to provide for related matters.
6 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
7 Section 1. R.S. 17:3703(M) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
8 §3703. Intercollegiate athlete's compensation and rights; responsibilities of
9 postsecondary education institutions
10 * * *
11 M.(1) Any document disclosed by the an intercollegiate athlete to the
12 postsecondary education institution where he is enrolled that references the terms
13 and conditions of the athlete's his contract for compensation shall be confidential and
14 not subject to inspection, examination, copying, or reproduction pursuant to the
15 Public Records Law.
16 (2) The total amount of revenue expended by a postsecondary education
17 institution during each fiscal year as part of an intercollegiate athletics revenue
18 sharing program is subject to public disclosure. However, the following records and
19 information are not subject to public disclosure and not subject to inspection,
20 examination, copying, or reproduction pursuant to the Public Records Law:
21 (a) The total amount, and any percentage amount, of those revenue funds
22 paid as part of a postsecondary education institution's athletics revenue sharing
23 program to any specific intercollegiate athlete.
24 (b) The total amount, and any percentage amount, of those revenue funds
25 allocated as part of a postsecondary education institution's athletics revenue sharing
26 program to any specific intercollegiate sport or athletic program.
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HB NO. 608 ENROLLED
1 (3) Any document related to or created as part of the process of negotiating
2 an agreement with an intercollegiate athlete as part of a postsecondary education
3 institution's intercollegiate athletics revenue sharing program, including any
4 agreements entered into with any specific intercollegiate athlete, is confidential and
5 not subject to inspection, examination, copying, or reproduction pursuant to the
6 Public Records Law.
7 * * *
8 Section 2. The provisions of this Act shall apply both prospectively and retroactively
9 to all records, documents, information, and requests for disclosure existing, created, or
10 pending on or afer the effective date of this Act. This Act is intended to clarify and confirm
11 the confidentiality of the records and information described in R.S. 17:3703(M), as amended
12 and reenacted by this Act.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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