LA HB656

Establishes the "Access to Programming Pilot Program" authorizing the Department of Public Safety and Corrections to provide rehabilitation programming to juvenile offenders and state inmates housed in parish prisons or jails, subject to available funding and resources.

Required programming topics include rehabilitation services (educational and vocational opportunities), mental health services, and suicide awareness and prevention.

Juveniles in juvenile facilities must receive programming through simultaneous audio-visual transmission, while inmates in parish prisons or jails may participate either in-person or via audio-visual transmission.

Directs DPS&C to adopt rules and regulations under the Administrative Procedure Act to implement the pilot program.