ATHLETICS: Provides relative to the confidentiality of documents related to an intercollegiate athletics revenue sharing program
HB 608 creates confidentiality protections for specific documents related to college athletes' compensation and revenue sharing in Louisiana. It makes two types of documents confidential and exempt from public records requests: (1) any document an athlete shares with their school about their contract terms, and (2) documents created during negotiations for an athletics revenue sharing program. These provisions directly affect college athletes and their institutions by preventing public access to sensitive financial agreements. The bill modifies Louisiana's public records law to exclude these materials from disclosure requirements.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2026
Committee Review
May 2026
House Passage
May 2026
Senate Passage
May 2026
Signed into Law
Jun 2026
Introduced Feb 26, 2026
Signed Jun 8, 2026
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HB608 Act 818
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MODERATE
The bill significantly broadens the confidentiality protections for intercollegiate athletics revenue sharing programs. While the original version only protected documents related to individual athlete contracts, the enacted version now explicitly shields financial data regarding total revenue expenditures, specific athlete payments, and allocations to specific sports from public disclosure.
Scope change
The scope of confidentiality was expanded from protecting only negotiation documents and individual athlete contracts to include specific financial metrics such as total revenue expended, percentage amounts paid to athletes, and funds allocated to specific sports or athletic programs.
FISCAL
Added explicit protection for the total amount of revenue expended by the institution during each fiscal year as part of the revenue sharing program.
Added protection for the specific dollar amounts and percentages paid to any individual intercollegiate athlete.
Added protection for the total amounts and percentages of revenue allocated to any specific sport or athletic program.
TIMELINE
Added a new section stating that the Act applies both prospectively and retroactively to all records existing or pending on the effective date.
ELIGIBILITY
Expanded the list of sponsors from a single representative to include Representatives Chassion, Boyd, Lyons, Mack, Newell, Schamerhorn, Wright, and Wyble.
Floor votes · Senate May 26, 2026 · House Apr 22, 2026
How they voted
23–13
Passed · 4 other
Total votes 40
May 26, 2026
D
Democratic12
41% Yea
R
Republican28
64% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
28
Key actions
6
Committee
7
May 29, 2026
Lower · Passed
Read by title, roll called, yeas 92, nays 2, Senate amendments concurred in..
lower
May 26, 2026
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 22 yeas and 13 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 19, 2026
Committee
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 18, 2026
Upper · Passed
Reported favorably.
upper
Apr 22, 2026
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, nays 4. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Apr 14, 2026
Lower · Passed
Reported favorably (9-3).
lower
Apr 7, 2026
Committee
Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
lower
Apr 1, 2026
Lower · Passed
Reported with amendments (11-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
lower
Mar 9, 2026
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education.
lower
Feb 26, 2026
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education.
lower
1 primary · 7 co-sponsors
Sponsors
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