Published: April 16, 2026
By: Kylah Babin, LSU Manship School News Service
BATON ROUGE – A Senate committee’s discussion of a bill to remake the state’s child welfare system brought Gov. Jeff Landry more deeply into efforts to fix the troubled agency.
Sen. Patrick McMath, R-Covington, proposed to move the responsibility of child welfare from the Department of Children and Family Services to the Louisiana Department of Health.
Under his bill, the Louisiana State Police would run a call center for reports of child abuse, and the attorney general’s office would handle child support enforcement.
“There is a unique opportunity here and true desire here to fix a broken system,” McMath said.
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LSU Manship School Statehouse Bureau 
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