Senate Finance Mar 23, 2026

Senate Budget Committee · March 23, 2026

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Louisiana Works presentation (Senate Fiscal)

Presentation

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Tranesha Hutchinson (Senate Fiscal) summarized the Louisiana Works reorganization under Act 478 (effective 10/01/2025), the agency structure (Office of Workers' Compensation, Unemployment Insurance, Workforce Development, Management & Finance), program transfers from DCFS (SNAP E&T and STEP), a roughly 42% increase in recommended budget from FY2019 to FY2027 driven mainly by those transfers and additional general fund for Louisiana Rehabilitation Services, and key line items including JAG funding and the LaSTEM contract transfers.

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Senate Budget Committee heard presentations and Q&A on the executive budgets for Louisiana Works, the Department of Health (LDH) and the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS); legislators pressed agency leaders on vacancies, program metrics, federal funding shifts, and several one-time transformation grants and system modernization requests.

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