HIGHER EDUCATION: Requires certain postsecondary education students to complete an anti-hazing course (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
HB 279 requires all student organizations at Louisiana colleges and universities to provide annual anti-hazing education to members, prospective members, and volunteers. The bill mandates organizations adopt their institution's hazing prevention policy - including sanctions for hazing incidents - and deliver at least one hour of hazing prevention education each year through in-person or digital methods. Organizations must submit annual reports verifying participation, and institutions may terminate non-compliant groups, reporting terminations to education committees. This directly affects campus student organizations, not individual students or faculty. The legislation focuses on preventing hazing through mandatory education and institutional accountability.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Apr 2025
Committee Review
Jun 2025
House Passage
May 2025
Senate Passage
Jun 2025
Signed into Law
Jun 2025
Introduced Apr 2, 2025
Signed Jun 8, 2025
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MODERATE
This bill strengthens Louisiana's anti-hazing laws by requiring student organizations to provide two hours of hazing prevention education annually, up from one hour, and mandates that organizations submit reports to verify attendance. It also grants institutions the authority to terminate an organization's campus presence if it fails to comply with these new requirements.
Scope change
The bill expands the educational requirement from one hour to two hours and adds a reporting mechanism for organizations to prove compliance.
REQUIREMENT
Increased the mandatory annual hazing prevention education for organization members from one hour to two hours.
ENFORCEMENT
Requires organizations to submit annual reports to the institution documenting that members received the required education.
Gives institutions the power to terminate an organization's operation on campus if it fails to comply with the hazing prevention policy or reporting requirements.
TECHNICAL
Updated the bill title from the 'Caleb Wilson Act' to the 'Anti-Hazing Education: Enough is Enough Act' and added additional sponsors.
Floor votes · Senate Jun 2, 2025 · House May 22, 2025
How they voted
37–0
Passed
Total votes 37
Jun 2, 2025
D
Democratic11
100% Yea
R
Republican26
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
21
Key actions
5
Committee
7
Jun 2, 2025
Upper · Passed
Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
Jun 1, 2025
Committee
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 29, 2025
Upper · Passed
Reported favorably.
upper
May 22, 2025
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 81, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
May 21, 2025
Lower · Passed
Discharged from the Committee on Appropriations.
lower
May 15, 2025
Committee
Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
lower
May 14, 2025
Lower · Passed
Reported with amendments (11-0) with recommendation to recommit to the Committee on Appropriations.
lower
Apr 14, 2025
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education.
lower
Apr 2, 2025
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education.
lower
1 primary · 5 co-sponsors
Sponsors
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