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Louisiana 2026

HB 1137

EMPLOYMENT/DISCRIMINATN: Prohibits intentional discrimination based on compelled speech with respect to using certain pronouns, names, or honorifics

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  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 579.

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  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

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  4. Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.

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  5. Signed by the President of the Senate.

  6. Read by title, roll called, yeas 70, nays 24, Senate amendments concurred in.

  7. Scheduled for concurrence on 05/20/2026.

  8. Received from the Senate with amendments.

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  9. Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 26 yeas and 9 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

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  10. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.

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  11. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

  12. Reported with amendments.

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  13. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations.

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  14. Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

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  15. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 66, nays 32. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

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  16. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/15/2026.

  17. Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.

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  18. Reported favorably (6-4).

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

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  20. Read by title. Lies over under the rules.