Part I - GENERAL PROVISIONS
- Section 17:411 - Teacher aides; qualifications
- Section 17:412 - Sexual orientation, gender identity; prohibited instruction, discussion
- Section 17:413 - Prerequisites for employment
- Section 17:414 - Qualification of teacher as prerequisite to payment
- Section 17:414.1 - Public elementary and secondary school principals; duties
- Section 17:414.2 - Influence by superintendent, principals, and others on student grades; board's duty; limitations on grade changes
- Section 17:414.3 - School fund; management, expenditure, and accounting; duties of school principal; accounts for certain closed schools; committees; creation and authority; policies
- Section 17:415 - School records; duty to keep reports by school principal
- Section 17:415.1 - [Repealed]
- Section 17:416 - Discipline of students; suspension; expulsion
- Section 17:416.1 - Discipline of students; additional disciplinary authority
- Section 17:416.2 - Supervision of suspended or expelled students; alternative education programs
- Section 17:416.3 - Search of students' persons, desks, lockers, other areas; defense of suits against school personnel; indemnification; reporting of implements seized
- Section 17:416.4 - Civil liability; legal defense and indemnification of all public school employees
- Section 17:416.5 - Same; attorney fees
- Section 17:416.6 - Search of persons entering public school buildings or grounds
- Section 17:416.7 - Dress codes; authorization; notification requirement
- Section 17:416.8 - Discipline policy review committees; school option
- Section 17:416.9 - Schools' duty as to safety; imminent danger to teachers; inspection; restraining order; other relief
- Section 17:416.10 - Visitor authorization; public elementary or secondary school grounds, buildings, and other facilities
- Section 17:416.11 - Discipline of pupils; limitation of liability
- Section 17:416.12 - Students; appropriate conduct; compliance
- Section 17:416.13 - Student code of conduct; requirement
- Section 17:416.14 - Bullying; definition; prohibition; notice; reporting; accountability
- Section 17:416.15 - Zero tolerance policies; authorization; conflict resolution classes; fees; compliance
- Section 17:416.16 - School crisis management and response plans
- Section 17:416.17 - Youth development and assistance programs; legislative findings and purpose; school authority for programs for elementary students
- Section 17:416.18 - Teacher Bill of Rights
- Section 17:416.19 - School resource officers
- Section 17:416.20 - Student conduct standards; awareness and understanding by students; required orientation; guidelines
- Section 17:416.21 - Behavior of students with exceptionalities; use of seclusion and physical restraint
- Section 17:416.22 - Discipline of students; nonpublic schools; disciplinary authority
- Section 17:416.23 - Behavioral or emotional challenges; referral for assessment and treatment; reporting
- Section 17:417 - Courses of study and school regulations; enforcement by teachers
- Section 17:418 - Salaries; teachers and other school employees; additional compensation
- Section 17:419 - [Repealed]
- Section 17:419.1 - [Repealed]
- Section 17:419.2 - Extra compensation for school support personnel
- Section 17:419.3 - Compensation for school support employees serving as substitute teachers
- Section 17:419.4 - Required teacher training and student instruction; effectiveness
- Section 17:420 - Required teacher training database; required student instruction list; reports
- Section 17:420.1 - Inclusion of employers' contributions for budget purposes
- Section 17:421 - [Repealed]
- Section 17:421.1 - [Repealed]
- Section 17:421.2 - [Repealed]
- Section 17:421.3 - [Repealed]
- Section 17:421.4 - Salary increases for noninstructional school personnel
- Section 17:421.5 - [Repealed]
- Section 17:421.6 - Adjustments in salaries of teachers having certificates issued by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
- Section 17:421.7 - Support Education in Louisiana First Fund
- Section 17:421.8 - Supplements to salaries of school counselors having certain certificates issued by the National Board for Certified Counselors
- Section 17:421.9 - Supplements to salaries of school psychologists having certain credentials issued by the National School Psychology Certification Board
- Section 17:421.10 - Supplements to salaries of school social workers having certain certificates issued by the National Association of Social Workers
- Section 17:421.11 - Supplements to salaries of school speech-language pathologists and audiologists having certain certificates issued by the American Speech-Language Hearing Association
- Section 17:421.12 - Supplements to salaries of school educational diagnosticians having certain credentials issued by the National Certification of Educational Diagnosticians Board
- Section 17:422 - [Repealed]
- Section 17:422.1 - [Repealed]
- Section 17:422.2 - [Repealed]
- Section 17:422.3 - [Repealed]
- Section 17:422.4 - [Repealed]
- Section 17:422.5 - [Repealed]
- Section 17:422.6 - Hourly wages and salaries for school employees; reduction limitations; definition
- Section 17:423 - Persons entering military service; right to prior service credit
- Section 17:423.1 - Teacher employment interrupted by military service; salary schedule
- Section 17:424 - Credit for years of service to teachers transferring
- Section 17:424.1 - Credit for teaching service in the United States armed forces institute school system
- Section 17:424.2 - Credit for teaching in state-approved private elementary and secondary school under state minimum salary schedule
- Section 17:424.3 - Credit for teaching in out-of-state public elementary and secondary schools under state minimum salary schedule
- Section 17:425 - Payment of accrued sick leave upon retirement or death
- Section 17:425.1 - Payment of severance pay; DROP participants
- Section 17:425.2 - Payment for unused sick and annual leave; certain unclassified employees
- Section 17:426 - Free and unhampered passage on the Louisiana Highway 1 Bridge; teachers, school bus operators, and other school employees
- Section 17:427 - Teachers of exceptional children; compensation
- Section 17:427.1 - Legislative findings; intent
- Section 17:427.2 - Critical Teacher Shortage Incentive Program; creation; purpose; definitions; contracts; administration; implementation; reporting; funding
- Section 17:427.3 - Teach Louisiana First Program; purpose; eligibility criteria; incentive payments; reports; administration; funding
- Section 17:427.4 - Intent; purpose; teachers' homebuyer program; authorization
- Section 17:427.5 - Qualified teachers' incentive program; authorization
- Section 17:428 - Supervisors, principals, teachers and other employees prohibited from serving on employing school board; service on neighboring or other school board
- Section 17:429 - Educational leadership certification; qualifications
- Section 17:430 - Applicants for public school employment; disclosure requirements; penalties; definitions
- Section 17:431 - [Repealed]
- Section 17:432 - Outstanding teachers; superintendents' awards; other merit awards
- Section 17:432.1 - Outstanding school support employee award; definition; selection; recognition
- Section 17:433 - Outstanding state teacher award
- Section 17:433.1 - Outstanding state principal awards
- Section 17:434 - Planning time for teachers; required
- Section 17:435 - Administering catheters; conditions; restrictions
- Section 17:436 - Performing noncomplex health procedures; definitions; conditions; restrictions; safety equipment, materials, and supplies
- Section 17:436.1 - Administration of medication; definition; conditions; restrictions; exceptions
- Section 17:436.2 - Psychotropic drugs; school board and charter school policies; prohibition; teacher recommendations; definitions
- Section 17:436.3 - Students with diabetes; management and treatment plans; provision of care; unlicensed diabetes care assistants; student self-monitoring and treatment
- Section 17:436.4 - Seizure treatment and training
- Section 17:436.5 - Sickle cell disease; training for school nurses
- Section 17:436.6 - Sickle cell disease
- Section 17:436.7 - Sickle cell disease; training for school nurses
- Section 17:437 - [Repealed]
- Section 17:437.1 - Suicide prevention; in-service training; materials and supplies; limitation on liability
- Section 17:437.2 - [Repealed]
- Section 17:438 - Permitted withholdings; exceptions
- Section 17:439 - Limitation of liability; statements or actions; exceptions
- Section 17:439.1 - Immunity from claims or causes of action related to the COVID-19 public health emergency
- Section 17:440 - School employees; prohibition on use of social security numbers as personal identifiers
- Section 17:440.1 - [Repealed]
- Section 17:440.2 - [Repealed]
- Section 17:440.3 - School coaches; required certifications
- Section 17:440.3 - Cardiac health; student athletes, parents; communication