Prohibits juvenile detention centers from detaining juveniles for insufficient reasons, including to punish, treat or rehabilitate the child, to allow the child’s parent/guardian to avoid their legal responsibilities, to facilitate further interrogation or investigation, the unavailability of a more appropriate facility, etc.

Authorizes the establishment of arts-based programming at juvenile detention facilities operated by any governmental, profit, nonprofit, private, or public agency and authorizes funding of such programming.

Provides that the the date for congressional primary elections, which occurs every other year, shall be a holiday for public schools in any parish where the parish governing authority has established a polling place at a public school.