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LA HB373
Bill
Status
6/8/2025
Primary Sponsor
Jason Hughes
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AI Summary
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Louisiana Workforce Commission must perform an annual return on investment analysis evaluating how industry-based credentials earned by high school students relate to attainment of high-wage, high-demand jobs aligned with state workforce priorities
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Analysis must include employment rates and wage outcomes for students who earned industry-based credentials in high school
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Written report due annually by February 1 to House and Senate Education Committees, House and Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committees, and the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education
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Public secondary schools must collect social security numbers from diploma-seeking seniors and share them with the Department of Education, which then shares with the Workforce Commission to facilitate the analysis
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Reports must present student information only in aggregate form and exclude personally identifiable information; the previous requirement for parental/student permission to collect social security numbers is removed
Legislative Description
Requires the Workforce Investment Council to perform an annual return on investment analysis relative to industry-based credentials earned in high school and provides for student data collection and sharing for this purpose (EN NO IMPACT FF EX See Note)
SCHOOLS/HIGH SCHOOL
Last Action
Effective date: 08/01/2025.
6/8/2025