LouisianaLouisiana office coordinates workforce services for businesses statewide
The Office of Business Workforce Solutions manages business-related programs and connects Louisiana employers with workforce training and workers.
What it does
The Office of Business Workforce Solutions manages business-related workforce programs and coordinates services across Louisiana. It helps businesses connect with training and workers through schools and other partners.
A seven-member committee advises the office and reports on its results each year. Most members represent businesses, and the committee recommends candidates for the office's assistant secretary.
The secretary may let the office use its own procurement rules instead of the state procurement code. The office stays within Louisiana Works, and its rules need approval and legislative review.
Argument forBusinesses could find training and workers more easily when one office connects them with programs, schools, and other workforce partners.
Argument againstA committee with a majority of business representatives could give employers more influence over workforce plans than workers or other community partners have.
More detail
The Office of Business Workforce Solutions manages business-related programs and coordinates workforce services across Louisiana. The office works with businesses, state agencies, regional and local service providers, schools, and other workforce partners. The secretary may assign the office other business-related programs or funding.
The Business Workforce Committee advises the office, reviews its work plan, recommends candidates and performance measures, and reports on results each year. The committee has seven members, a majority of whom are business representatives, and includes the secretary of Louisiana Economic Development or a designee. The secretary of Louisiana Works forwards the committee's recommended assistant secretary candidates to the governor for consideration. The committee reports to the council annually.
At the secretary of Louisiana Works' discretion, the state procurement code may not apply to the office, which must adopt its own procurement rules. This option applies to the Office of Business Workforce Solutions within Louisiana Works. The office must remain within Louisiana Works and adopt procurement rules under the Administrative Procedure Act. The commissioner of administration must approve the rules before legislative review; the House Appropriations Committee and Senate Finance Committee may review them.
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- Introduced
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
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History
- 2026
- Jun 9Signed by the Governor Jeff Landry. Becomes Act No. 856.Became Law
- Jun 9Effective date: 08/01/2026.
- Jun 4Sent to the Governor for executive approval.To Governor
- Jun 1Signed by the President of the Senate.
- May 31Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.Minor
- May 29Read by title, roll called, yeas 97, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- Vote recorded CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1701). Result: pass.Lower
- May 27Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2026.
- May 26Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 2 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.Passed Senate
- Vote recorded FINAL PASSAGE (#1326). Result: pass.Upper
- May 26Received from the Senate with amendments.Minor
- May 20Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.Minor
- May 19Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- May 18Reported favorably.Minor
- Apr 20Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- Apr 15Reported favorably.Minor
- Mar 31Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations.Minor
- Mar 30Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.Minor
- Mar 26Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 2. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.Passed House
- Vote recorded FINAL PASSAGE (#146). Result: pass.Lower
- Mar 25Scheduled for floor debate on 03/26/2026.
- Mar 24Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.Minor
- Mar 23Reported with amendments (11-0).Minor
- Mar 9Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations.Minor
- Feb 27Prefiled.Minor
- Feb 27Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations.Minor
- Feb 27First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.Introduced
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