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Regular Session, 2014
SENATE BILL NO. 643
BY SENATOR WARD
SCHOOLS. Allows charter schools and private schools to create work-based learning
programs. (8/1/14)
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 23:167, relative to employment of minors; to provide for work-based learning2
programs for students of charter and nonpublic schools; and to provide for related3
matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 23:167 is hereby enacted to read as follows: 6
ยง167. Work-based learning programs7
A. A school board, a governing body of a charter school established8
under R.S. 17:3971 et. seq., or a governing body of a nonpublic school may9
create a work-based learning program, pursuant to LAC Title 40, Part VII,10
Section 541, for pupils in grades nine through twelve.11
B. A school board or governing body that creates a work-based learning12
program shall not do any of the following:13
(1) Admit any student to the work-based learning program who is not14
authorized to work in the United States, and shall comply with all relevant15
provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act and R.S. 23:992 et. seq.16
(2) Admit any minor into the work-based learning program who is less17 SB NO. 643
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than fourteen years of age on the first day of work.1
(3) Assign any student to employment that he is not authorized to2
perform under the Fair Labor Standards Act or R.S. 23:214-215.3
(4) Admit any student into the program if it determines that the student4
cannot perform the duties an employer that works with the school board or5
governing body as part of their work study program sets forth.6
C. Any income earned by a student in a work-based learning program7
established under this Section shall not count as part of the student's family8
total income under R.S. 17:4013.9
D. Subject to the provisions of LAC Title 40, Part VII, Section 541, in the10
case of a conflict between this Section and other provisions of Titles 17 or 23, for11
the purposes of schools that create work-based learning programs this Section12
shall control.13
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Alan Miller.
DIGEST
Ward (SB 643)
Proposed law authorizes a school board, a governing body of a charter school established
under present law, or a governing body of a nonpublic school to create a work-based
learning program for pupils in grades nine through 12.
Proposed law prohibits any school board or governing body that creates a work-based
learning program from doing any of the following:
(1) Admitting any student to the work-based learning program who is not authorized to
work in the United States, and shall comply with all relevant provisions of the
Immigration and Nationality Act and present law.
(2)Admitting any minor into the work-based learning program who is less than14 years
of age on the first day of work.
(3)Assigning any student to employment that he is not authorized to perform under the
Fair Labor Standards Act or present law.
(4)Admitting any student into the program if it determines that the student cannot
perform the duties an employer that works with the school board or governing body
as part of their work study program sets forth.
Proposed law prohibits any income earned by a student in a work-based learning program
established under proposed law counting as part of the student's family's total income under
present law. SB NO. 643
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Proposed law provides that subject to the provisions of present law, in the case of a conflict
between proposed law and present law, for the purposes of schools that create work-based
learning programs proposed law shall control.
Effective August 1, 2014.
(Adds R.S. 23:167)