Louisiana Revised Statutes Tit. 17, § 226. Exemptions from compulsory attendance

(a) Children who are personally ill and whose attendance in school would endanger their own health or that of their classmates, each city, parish, or other local public school board being hereby authorized to adopt and promulgate or publish such resolutions as may seem wise and proper regarding the requirement of a certificate from a physician or nurse practitioner licensed to practice in the state in substantiation of the absence of children under this authorization of temporary absence.

(b) Children in whose families there is serious illness which would reasonably necessitate the absence from school if, in the judgment of the visiting teacher, or supervisor of child welfare and attendance, such absence is justified, or if the illness is substantiated in writing by a physician or nurse practitioner licensed to practice in the state.

(c) Children in whose immediate family a death has occurred, such absence not to exceed one week because of and at the time of such death.

(d) Children whose religious faith requires absence for the observance of special and recognized holidays of the child's own faith.