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HB65 • 2026

PUBLIC OFFLS/EMPS: Provides relative to mandatory training on the prevention of sexual harassment

PUBLIC OFFLS/EMPS: Provides relative to mandatory training on the prevention of sexual harassment

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Raymond Crews
Last action
2026-03-09
Official status
Pending House and Governmental Affairs - Considered 3/31/26
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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PUBLIC OFFLS/EMPS: Provides relative to mandatory training on the prevention of sexual harassment

PUBLIC OFFLS/EMPS: Provides relative to mandatory training on the prevention of sexual harassment

What This Bill Does

  • PUBLIC OFFLS/EMPS: Provides relative to mandatory training on the prevention of sexual harassment

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Bill History

  1. 2026-03-09 H

    Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.

  2. 2026-02-06 H

    First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/6/2026.

  3. 2026-02-02 H

    Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.

  4. 2026-02-02 H

    Prefiled.

Official Summary Text

PUBLIC OFFLS/EMPS: Provides relative to mandatory training on the prevention of sexual harassment

Current Bill Text

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HLS 26RS-265 ORIGINAL
2026 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 65
BY REPRESENTATIVE CREWS
PUBLIC OFFLS/EMPS: Provides relative to mandatory training on the prevention of
sexual harassment
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 42:343(A)(1), relative to training on the prevention of sexual
3 harassment; to provide for mandatory training requirements of elected officials and
4 public employees; and to provide for related matters.
5 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
6 Section 1. R.S. 42:343(A)(1) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
7 §343. Preventing sexual harassment; mandatory training requirements
8 A.(1)(a) Each public servant employee shall receive a minimum of one hour
9 of education and training on preventing sexual harassment during each full calendar
10 year of his public employment or term of office, as the case may be.
11 (b) Each elected official shall receive a minimum of one hour of education
12 and training on preventing sexual harassment during his term of office.
13 * * *
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 65 Original 2026 Regular Session Crews
Abstract: Provides for the mandatory training requirements for public employees and
elected officials relative to the prevention of sexual harassment.
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CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored
are additions.
HLS 26RS-265 ORIGINAL
HB NO. 65
Present law requires that a public employee receive a minimum of one hour of education and
training on preventing sexual harassment during each full calendar year of his public
employment.
Proposed law retains present law.
Present law requires that an elected official receive a minimum of one hour of education and
training on preventing sexual harassment during each full calendar year of his term of office.
Proposed law requires that an elected official receive a minimum of one hour of education
and training on preventing sexual harassment during his term in office.
(Amends R.S. 42:343(A)(1))
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CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored
are additions.