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Regular Session, 2010
HOUSE BILL NO. 1344
BY REPRESENTATIVE AUSTIN BADON
SCHOOLS/BOARDS: Permits the governing authority of a public elementary or secondary
school to provide for the placement of advertisements on school buses
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 17:81(T), relative to the powers, duties, functions, and responsibilities of city,2
parish, and other local public school boards; to authorize the governing authority of3
a public elementary or secondary school to provide for the placement of certain4
advertisements in and on school buses; to provide for rules and regulations; and to5
provide for related matters.6
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:7
Section 1. R.S. 17:81(T) is hereby enacted to read as follows:8
ยง81. General powers of city, parish, and other local public school boards9
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T.(1) Notwithstanding any rule, regulation, or law to the contrary, the11
governing authority of a public elementary or secondary school may provide for the12
display of advertisements on school buses according to rules and regulations13
developed and adopted by the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.14
Such rules and regulations shall include but not be limited to a prohibition of15
advertisements which pertain to the following:16
(a) Alcoholic beverages or tobacco products.17
(b) Content which is discriminatory, false, misleading, deceptive, or obscene.18
(c) The endorsement of any product or service by the school governing19
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(d) Support or opposition relative to any public official or candidate for1
public office or to the passage of any tax, levy, bond issue, or other election issue.2
(e) The promotion of gaming.3
(2) Costs associated with the implementation of the provisions of this4
Subsection shall not be borne by the school governing authority.5
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
Austin Badon HB No. 1344
Abstract: Authorizes public school governing authorities to provide for the placement of
certain advertisements in and on school buses according to BESE rules and
regulations.
Present law provides generally for the powers, duties, functions, and responsibilities of
public school boards. Proposed law authorizes, notwithstanding any rule, regulation, or law
to the contrary, a public school governing authority to provide for the placement of
advertisements in and on school buses according to BESE rules and regulations. Requires
such rules and regulations to include, at a minimum, a prohibition of advertisements which
pertain to the following:
(1) Alcoholic beverages or tobacco products.
(2) Content which is discriminatory, false, misleading, deceptive, or obscene.
(3) The endorsement of any product or service by the school governing authority.
(4)Support or opposition relative to any public official or candidate for public office or
to the passage of any tax, levy, bond issue, or other election issue.
(5)The promotion of gaming.
Further provides that costs associated with the implementation of proposed law shall not be
borne by the public school governing authority.
(Adds R.S. 17:81(T))
Summary of Amendments Adopted by House
Committee Amendments Proposed by House Committee on Education to the original
bill.
1. Broadened prohibition of political advertisements to cover all such
advertisements rather than only those expressing the position of the school
governing authority.
2. Added to the list of prohibited advertisements those pertaining to the promotion
of gaming.