HB 334 — SUNSET LAW: Re-creates Louisiana Works and re-authorizes the Incumbent Worker Training Program

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334 BY REPRESENTATIVE CREWS SUNSETAN LAW:ACT To amend and reenact R.S.

Re-creates Louisiana Works and re-authorizes the Incumbent Worker Training Program AN ACT To amend and reenact R.S.

The Incumbent Worker Training Program reauthorization shall be expresslyrenewedbythelegislaturepriortoJuly1,20262030,inorderforamountsexpresslyrenewedbythelegislaturepriorto July1,20262030,inorderforamounts to be charged and credited to the Incumbent Worker Training Account in the following calendar year for use in funding the program.

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334 authoritythereforis continuedin accordancewith the provisions of Part XIIof Chapter 1 of Title 49 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950.

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table of dates Notwithstanding any termination dates set by any previous Act of the legislature,thestatutoryentitiessetforthinthisSectionshallbegintoterminatetheir operations on July first of each of the following years, and all legislative authority for the existence of any statutoryentity,statutory entity, as defined in R.S.

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1:13(B) and 24:177(E)] HB 334 Engrossed 2026 Regular Session Crews Abstract:

Re-creates Louisiana Works and re-authorizes the Incumbent Worker Training Program.

PresentlawprovidesthattheIncumbentWorkerTrainingProgram(IWTP)re-authorization shall be expressly renewed by the legislature prior to July 1, 2026, in order for amounts to be charged and credited to the Incumbent Worker Training Account in the following calendar year for use in funding the program.

Proposed law changes the renewaldate for the IWTP re-authorization from July1, 2026, to July 1, 2030.

Presentlaw(Sunset)providesthatLa.Worksandallthestatutoryentitiesmadeapartofthat department by law shall begin to terminate their operations on July 1, 2026, and that all legislative authority for such entities shall cease as of July 1, 2027, unless the legislature enacts a bill authorizing the re-creation of the department and its statutory entities prior thereto.

Proposed law provides for the general re-creation of La.

Works and its statutory entities, effective June 30, 2026, in accordance with the sunset law.

Proposed law supersedes the provisions of the sunset law which set out the procedure for review and re-creation and which require a separate bill to re-create each statutory entity within the department along with additional provisions.

Proposed law makes July 1, 2031, the new termination date and termination would begin July 1, 2030, unless the department is again re-created.

Effective June 30, 2026.

(Amends R.S.

23:1553(G);

Adds R.S.

49:191(3)(b);

Repeals R.S.

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