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.
- Contribute to LaFamPac.
Coming Up This Week
House Civil Law & Procedure
Monday, April 22, 2024 10:00 AM Committee Room 4
- HB 833, Davis - Provides relative to in vitro fertilization (Neutral Monitor)
House Commerce
Monday, April 22, 2024 9:30 AM Committee Room 1
- HB 954, Mena - Provides relative to occupations and professions (Neutral Monitor)
House Appropriations
Tuesday, April 23, 2024 9:00 AM Committee Room 5
- HCR 3, McFarland - Provides for a hospital stabilization formula (Neutral Monitor)
House Commerce
Tuesday, April 23, 2024 9:30 AM Committee Room 1
- SB 332, Seabaugh - Repeals the Occupational Licensing Review Commission (Neutral Monitor)
House Education
Wednesday, April 24, 2024 9:00 AM Committee Room 1
- HB 908, Amedee - Prohibits discrimination against students on the basis of vaccination status (Neutral Monitor)
- SB 56, Wheat - Provides for the administration of medication to students by certain practitioners (Neutral Monitor)
House Health & Welfare
Wednesday, April 24, 2024 9:30 AM Committee Room 5
- HB 256, Horton - Provides relative to a minor's consent for medical procedures (Against)
- HB 306, Owen - Provides for visitation policies at certain healthcare facilities and requires that such policies allow for in-person visitation (Neutral Monitor)
- HB 711, Galle - Provides relative to parental consent with respect to the administration of vaccines to minors (Against Monitor)
- HB 815, Billings - Provides relative to certain federally-regulated information (Neutral Monitor)
- SB 46, McMath - Creates the Alzheimer's and Related Dementias Advisory Council within the Louisiana Department of Health (Neutral Monitor)
- SB 92, Duplessis - Provides relative to the Safe Haven Law (Neutral Monitor)
- SB 165, McMath - Provides relative to noncompetition agreements (Neutral Monitor)
- SB 231, Duplessis - Provides regarding involuntary outpatient treatment for mental health (Neutral Monitor)
- SB 278, Jackson-Andrews - Creates the Louisiana Pregnancy and Baby Care Initiative (Neutral Monitor)
- SB 296, Boudreaux - Provides relative to emergency medical services (Neutral Monitor)
Wednesday, April 24, 2024 9:00 AM Committee Room 3
- HB 509, Brown - Provides relative to pharmacy benefit managers (Neutral Monitor)
- SB 48, Talbot - Provides for health insurance coverage of genetic testing for diseases and other medical conditions (Neutral Monitor)
- SB 58, Talbot - Provides for patient's right to prompt coverage (Neutral Monitor)
- SB 219, McMath - Provides relative to conversion requirements for health insurers (Neutral Monitor)
- SB 338, Boudreaux - Requires health coverage plans to include alternative imaging methods to mammography (Neutral Monitor)
