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The 2024 Regular Session of the Louisiana began at 12 noon on Monday, March 11, and must adjourn sine die no later than 6 p.m. on Monday, June 3. The LAFP Board of Directors and Legislative and Advocacy Committee recently met and reviewed all of the bills that have been filed. Over 1,000 bills were introduced, with the LAFP following 66 House bills and 63 Senate bills. Click here to view the full LAFP tracking list.

We need YOUR help to be successful this Session!

We have provided a checklist of items to complete before Session starts that will help us in protecting your profession.

  • Find out who your legislators are.
    Click here to find your legislators and get into contact with them before Session.
  • Verify and update your Voter Voice information.
    Voter Voice is an essential way to let your voice be heard during Session. Having the correct information ensures that we are reaching as many members as possible and keeps members up-to-date on important issues.  Click here to familiarize yourself with upcoming Session concerns and the types of messages we will push through Voter Voice.
  • Use Twitter to follow @lafp_familydocs, your legislators, and the hashtag #LALeg to keep up with the conversations during Session.

Coming Up This Week

House Appropriations
Monday, April 15, 2024  9:00 AM  Committee Room 5  
  • HB 372, Crews - Provides relative to patient wait time for the provision of emergency care (Neutral Monitor)
  • HB 446, Hilferty - Provides relative to notifications of public meetings and duties of public bodies and the commissioner of administration relative thereto (Neutral Monitor)
  • HB 702, Willard - Provides for Medicaid coverage and support for doula services (Neutral Monitor)   

House Civil Law & Procedure
Monday, April 15, 2024  9:00 AM  Committee Room 4

  • HB 833, Davis - Provides relative to in vitro fertilization (Neutral Monitor)
  • HB 866, Amedee - Provides relative to the refusal of certain medical services (Neutral Monitor)      

Senate Finance
Monday, April 15, 2024  9:30 AM  Committee Room A/B

  • SB 368, Bass - Provides for actuarial review of certain state-mandated health insurance benefits (Neutral Monitor)         

House Health & Welfare
Tuesday, April 16, 2024  9:00 AM  Committee Room 5

  • HB 711, Galle - Provides relative to parental consent with respect to the administration of vaccines to minors (Against Monitor)   
  • HB 813, Edmonston - Provides relative to prescribing, administering, and dispensing of drugs for off-label use (Neutral Monitor)  
  • HB 815, Billings - Provides relative to certain federally-regulated information (Neutral Monitor)  
  • HB 822, Egan - Provides relative to messenger ribonucleic acid vaccinations and blood donations (Neutral Monitor)  
  • HB 828, Miller - Provides relative to the professional organization of medical psychologists (Against Monitor)  
  • HB 860, Echols - Provides relative to Medicaid reimbursement for home visiting services provided after the birth of a child (Neutral Monitor)  
  • HB 868, Egan - Provides relative to standards for psychiatric hospitals and residential substance abuse facilities (Neutral Monitor)  
  • HB 891, Chenevert - Provides relative to the Safe Haven Law (Neutral Monitor)  
  • HB 896, Myers - Creates the Louisiana Remote Patient Monitoring Program Law (Neutral Monitor)  
  • HB 939, Fisher - Provides relative to healthcare services provided to patients with sickle cell disease (Neutral Monitor)   
  • HB 952, Miller - Provides relative to consumable hemp products (Neutral Monitor)     
House Insurance
Tuesday, April 16, 2024  9:00 AM  Committee Room 3
  • HB 509, Brown - Provides relative to pharmacy benefit managers (Neutral Monitor)   
  • HB 704, Chassion - Creates the pharmacy benefit managers quality incentive program (Neutral Monitor)   
  • HB 839, Hebert - Provides relative to step therapy or fail first protocols (Neutral Monitor)   
  • HB 958, Amedee - Prohibits financial incentives or penalties to encourage healthcare providers to administer vaccinations (Neutral Monitor)   
Senate Judiciary C
Tuesday, April 16, 2024  10:00 AM  Committee Room F
  • HB 204, Turner - Adds substances to the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Law (Neutral Monitor) 
House Education
Wednesday, April 17, 2024  9:00 AM  Committee Room 1
  • HB 872, Miller - Provides relative to behavioral health services for students (Neutral Monitor)  
House Health & Welfare
Wednesday, April 17, 2024  9:00 AM  Committee Room 5
  • HB 256, Horton - Provides relative to a minor's consent for medical procedures (Against)   
  • HB 849, Illg - Provides relative to healthcare outcomes for patient's suffering with behavioral health issues (Neutral Monitor)   
  • HB 869, Phelps - Requires continuing education for the treatment of sickle cell disease for physicians and physician assistants (Neutral Monitor)   
  • HB 883, Phelps - Allows the provision of data relative to sickle cell disease (Neutral Monitor)   
  • HB 897, Bagley - Provides relative to physical therapists (Neutral Monitor)   
  • HB 899, Wright - Provides relative to the Hope for Louisiana Patients Law (Neutral Monitor)   
  • HB 916, Dickerson - Establishes procedures for the use of artificial intelligence by healthcare entities (Neutral Monitor)   
House Judiciary
Thursday, April 18, 2024  10:00 AM  Committee Room 1
  • HB 54, Newell - Provides relative to the regulation of cannabis (Neutral Monitor)   
  • HB 876, Beaullieu - Provides relative to the definition of "alternative nicotine product" (Neutral Monitor)  
House Labor & Industrial Relations
Thursday, April 18, 2024  9:00 AM  Committee Room 5
  • HB 618, Beaullieu Provides relative to accident reporting and access to medical records and information related to claims (Neutral Monitor)

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