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Regents summarize 2025 legislative session: UNO transfer, hazing rules, deferred maintenance and education policy among wins
Summary
Board staff and Regents reviewed bills from the 2025 session that affect higher education, including funding for UNO's debt, creation of hazing prevention requirements and a task force, deferred‑maintenance reforms, and several scholarship and workforce alignment laws.
Board staff gave the Board of Regents an overview of priority bills from the 2025 Louisiana legislative session, highlighting items that passed, measures now pending on the governor’s desk, and new task forces assigned to the board.
Bree (last name not specified in transcript), director for legislative affairs at the Regents, walked members through major items. She said Senate Bill 202 (authored by Senator Harris) transferring the University of New Orleans (UNO) to the LSU system was on the governor’s desk; the Legislature included $20 million designated for UNO debt payments and $3 million for deferred…
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