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HB628 • 2026

EARLY CHILDHOOD: Authorizes a school board to engage in a cooperative endeavor with a licensed early learning center to operate a microcenter at a school

EARLY CHILDHOOD: Authorizes a school board to engage in a cooperative endeavor with a licensed early learning center to operate a microcenter at a school

Education
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Terry Landry Jr
Last action
2026-04-16
Official status
Substitute adopted on the House floor (became HB1242)
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.

EARLY CHILDHOOD: Authorizes a school board to engage in a cooperative endeavor with a licensed early learning center to operate a microcenter at a school

EARLY CHILDHOOD: Authorizes a school board to engage in a cooperative endeavor with a licensed early learning center to operate a microcenter at a school

What This Bill Does

  • EARLY CHILDHOOD: Authorizes a school board to engage in a cooperative endeavor with a licensed early learning center to operate a microcenter at a school

Limits and Unknowns

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Amendments

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Draft

Plain English: HCAHB628 3391 3821 HOUSE COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Substitute for Original House Bill No.

  • HCAHB628 3391 3821 HOUSE COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Substitute for Original House Bill No.
  • 628 by Representative Terry Landry as proposed by the House Committee on Education This document reflects the content of a substitute bill but is not in a bill form; page numbers in this document DO NOT correspond to page numbers in the substitute bill itself.
  • To enact R.S.
  • 17:407.39(I), relative to early learning centers; to authorize the state Department of Education to issue more than one early learning center a license at the same location under certain circumstances; and to provide for related matters.

Bill History

  1. 2026-04-16 H

    Becomes HB 1242.

  2. 2026-04-15 H

    Reported by substitute (12-0).

  3. 2026-03-09 H

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

  4. 2026-02-27 H

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

  5. 2026-02-27 H

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

  6. 2026-02-27 H

    Prefiled.

Official Summary Text

EARLY CHILDHOOD: Authorizes a school board to engage in a cooperative endeavor with a licensed early learning center to operate a microcenter at a school

Current Bill Text

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HLS 26RS-1260 ORIGINAL
2026 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 628
BY REPRESENTATIVE TERRY LANDRY
EARLY CHILDHOOD: Authorizes a school board to engage in a cooperative endeavor
with a licensed early learning center to operate a microcenter at a school
1 AN ACT
2 To enact R.S. 17:407.22.2, relative to early learning centers; to authorize a school board to
3 engage in a cooperative endeavor with an early learning center to operate a
4 microcenter program; to provide for definitions; to provide for eligibility; and to
5 provide for related matters.
6 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
7 Section 1. R.S. 17:407.22.2 is hereby enacted to read as follows:
8 §407.22.2. Microcenter programs
9 A.(1) Each city, parish, or other local public school board may engage in a
10 cooperative endeavor with an early learning center for the purpose of creating and
11 establishing a microcenter program for the care and education of three-year-olds.
12 (2) For the purposes of this Section, the following terms have the following
13 meanings:
14 (a) "Early learning center" means a licensed Type III provider.
15 (b) "Microcenter program" means an early learning center operating in a
16 school.
17 B. A microcenter program is required to meet all accountability standards
18 of a licensed Type III provider.
19 C. In establishing a program, the school board shall prioritize economically
20 disadvantaged three-year-olds.
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CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored
are additions.
HLS 26RS-1260 ORIGINAL
HB NO. 628
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 628 Original 2026 Regular Session Terry Landry
Abstract: Authorizes a school board to have an early learning center operate a microcenter
program.
Present law (R.S. 17:407.36) provides for types of early learning centers, centers that
provide care and education for children ages birth through five.
Proposed law authorizes a school board to enter into a cooperative endeavor with a licensed
Type III provider to operate a microcenter program in a school.
Proposed law limits program participants to three-year-olds, and requires the school board
to prioritize economically disadvantaged children.
(Adds R.S. 17:407.22.2)
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CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored
are additions.