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LA HB923

Bill

Status

Introduced

2/27/2026

Primary Sponsor

Stephanie Berault

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Origin

House of Representatives

2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Establishes integrated case management framework for Louisiana Works to coordinate workforce, education, and social services through a "One Door" model allowing individuals to access multiple programs through a single entry point

  • Reorganizes community action agency governance by designating Louisiana Works as the lead agency for Community Services Block Grant administration, removing parish governing authority's role in annual agency designation, and allowing rural parishes receiving less than $80,001 in CSBG funds to reduce minimum board membership from 15 to 9 members

  • Modernizes notification requirements throughout unemployment insurance and workers' compensation systems by allowing electronic delivery in addition to certified mail, with delivery deemed complete on the date shown on the notice

  • Changes unemployment benefit duration calculation from monthly to semi-annual determinations based on unemployment rates preceding January 1st and July 1st, and increases fraud overpayment penalties from 25% to 50% of the overpayment amount

  • Repeals the Louisiana State Board of Boiler Inspector Examiners and its associated certification requirements, mandatory cost containment meeting attendance fines for employers, and the 50% benefit discount for requalified unemployment claimants

Legislative Description

Provides relative to the continuing of technical corrections and revisions of provisions of Title 23 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950

LABOR

Last Action

Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations.

3/9/2026

Committee Referrals

Labor and Industrial Relations2/27/2026

Full Bill Text

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