RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 437 (HB 562) 2019 Regular Session Emerson
Existing law provides for the licensure, regulation, and oversight of proprietary schools by
the Bd. of Regents. Provides for definitions, application requirements, fees, renewals,
appeals, cessation of operations, advertising requirements, and degree granting status.
Establishes the Advisory Commission on Proprietary Schools under the jurisdiction of the
Bd. of Regents and provides for commission membership and duties. Establishes the
Proprietary School Student Protection Fund and provides for payments to the fund by schools
in accordance with the specified payment schedule.
New law makes numerous revisions to provide for technical corrections, removal of obsolete
provisions, and reorganization and recodification of existing law. In addition, new law:
(1)Authorizes the Bd. of Regents to develop rules and regulations instead of the
commission.
(2)Changes the definition of proprietary schools to specify that out-of-state enterprises
that require clinical or practical experiences in La. are subject to new law.
(3)Adds requirement that proprietary schools that cease operations take certain specified
actions.
(4)Deletes requirement that proprietary schools retain electronic copies of student
records and that the Bd. of Regents does not have to store hard copies of records it
receives when a school ceases operations if the board stores the records
electronically.
(5)Removes authority given to proprietary schools to grant associate degrees, thereby
limiting the degree granting authority to occupational degrees.
(6)Deletes prohibition on persons preparing advertising materials for school owners or
solicitors until the commission provided information that the owner or solicitor was
licensed and instead provides that the owner or solicitor may not advertise or cause
any information to be advertised until the owner or solicitor is licensed in accordance
with new law.
Effective August 1, 2019.
(Amends R.S. 17:7(8) and 11 and R.S. 36:651(L) and 801.5(A); Adds R.S. 17:3140.1-
3140.17; Repeals R.S. 17:3141.1-3141.19)