The 2025 Regular Session of the Louisiana began at 12 noon on Monday, April 14, and must adjourn sine die no later than 6 p.m. on Monday, June 12. The LAFP Board of Directors and Legislative and Advocacy Committee will meet and review all of the bills that have been filed. Over 800 bills were introduced. 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.
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Coming Up This Week
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 10:00 AM Committee Room 6
- HB 325, Bryant - Provides for the rate of tax levied on certain cigars (Neutral Monitor)
- HB 390, Landry, M. - Levies an additional tax on cigarettes (Support)
- HB 398, Brass - Increases the tax levied on smokeless tobacco and dedicates a portion of avails of the tax into the Youth Cessation and Prevention Fund (Support)
- HB 517, Brass - Increases the excise tax levied on vapor products and electronic cigarettes and changes the basis of the tax to a percentage of the invoice price of these products (Support)
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 9:30 AM Committee Room 4
- HB 427, Bamburg - Provides for a reversionary trust (Neutral Monitor)
Senate Judiciary A
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 1:30 PM John J. Hainkel, Jr. Room
- SB 156, Pressly - Provides for in vitro fertilization (Support)
House Health and Welfare
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 10:30 AM Committee Room 5
- HB 118, Egan - Provides relative to emergency certificates in St. Tammany Parish (Neutral Monitor)
- HB 314, Miller - Modifies the regulatory authority of the Louisiana Department of Health in relation to hospital classifications (Neutral Monitor)
- HB 317, Echols - Establishes prohibited acts by certain healthcare facility lessors and lessees (Neutral Monitor)
- HB 358, Miller - Permits a pharmacy technician to work remotely in certain circumstances (Neutral Monitor)
- HB 399, Chenevert - Provides with respect to the profession of dietetics and dieticians (Neutral Monitor)
- HB 456, Turner - Provides relative to the Local Healthcare Provider Participation Program (Neutral Monitor)
- HB 539, Berault - Creates a program and fund administered by the La. Dept. of Health for the purpose of recruiting specialist physicians to practice medicine in the state (Support)
- HB 544, Turner - Transfers powers and duties of the Nursing Supply and Demand Council and the Simulation Medical Training and Education Council to the Louisiana Health Works Commission (Neutral Monitor)
- HB 565, Spell - Provides relative to third-party liability, claim adjudication, and timeliness of such within the state medical assistance program (Support)
Senate Health and Welfare
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 9:30 AM John J. Hainkel, Jr. Room
- SB 2, Fesi - Provides relative to water fluoridation (Neutral Monitor)
- SB 19, Fesi - Provides relative to the dispensing of ivermectin (Neutral Monitor)
- SB 70, Myers - Provides relative to remote patient monitoring services (Neutral Monitor)
- SB 134, Pressly - Provides relative to health care definitions (Neutral Monitor)
- SB 174, Jackson-Andrews - Provides relative to screening pregnant women for HIV and syphilis (Neutral Monitor)
- SB 182, Talbot - Provides relative to Medicaid prior authorization during a declared emergency (Neutral Monitor)
Senate Insurance
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 9:00 AM Committee Room A/B
- SB 42, Selders - Provides relative to perinatal behavioral health treatment (Neutral Monitor)
- SB 111, Seabaugh - Provides for fair claims processing (Neutral Monitor)
- SB 129, Pressly - Requires health insurers to cover proton therapy for cancer patients (Neutral Monitor)
Senate Labor & Industrial Relations
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 1:00 PM Committee Room C
- SB 213, Seabaugh - Provides for preliminary determination hearings in workers' compensation (Neutral Monitor)
House Judiciary
Thursday, April 24, 2025 9:00 AM Committee Room 1
- HB 60, Galle - Provides relative to healthcare facilities operated by the Department of Veterans Affairs for war veterans (Neutral Monitor)
House Labor & Industrial Relations
Thursday, April 24, 2025 9:00 AM Committee Room 5
- HB 117, Echols - Provides for adoption of a medical fee reimbursement schedule for workers' compensation (Neutral Monitor)