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.
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- 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.
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Coming Up This Week
House Ways and Means
Monday, April 28, 2025 9:00 AM Committee Room 6
Monday, April 28, 2025 9:00 AM Committee Room 6
- HB 233, Echols - TAX CREDITS - Establishes an income tax credit for certain pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturers (Neutral Monitor)
House Civil Law & Procedure
Monday, April 28, 2025 9:30 AM Committee Room 4
Monday, April 28, 2025 9:30 AM Committee Room 4
- HB 575, Ventrella - ABORTION - Provides relative to liability for the unlawful termination of a pregnancy (Neutral Monitor)
Senate Finance
Monday, April 28, 2025 10:30 AM Committee Room A-B
- SB 24, McMath - FUNDS/FUNDING - Provides for dedication of revenue and use of monies in the Medical Assistance Programs Fraud Detection Fund. (gov sig) (Neutral Monitor)
- SB 100, Miguez - STATE AGENCIES - Provides for the gathering of data relative to the legal status of individuals receiving state services. (gov sig) (Neutral Monitor)
House Insurance
Tuesday, April 29, 2025 9:00 AM Committee Room 3
- HB 264, Echols - INSURANCE/HEALTH - Provides for the utilization of pharmaceutical rebates by a pharmacy benefit manager (Neutral Monitor)
- HB 382, Bayham - INSURANCE/HEALTH - Requires insurance coverage of home visiting services for newborns and young children (Neutral Monitor)
- HB 408, Dickerson - INSURANCE/HEALTH - Requires health insurance coverage relative to pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome and related conditions (Neutral Monitor)
House Education
Tuesday, April 29, 2025 9:00 AM Committee Room 1
- HB 478, Horton - HEALTH/SCHOOL CLINICS - Requires certain information about pregnancy, adoption, and neonatal care to be posted and distributed at school health centers in public high schools and student health centers on public postsecondary education institution campuses (Neutral Monitor)
House Health and Welfare
Tuesday, April 29, 2025 9:00 AM Committee Room 4
- HB 114, Domangue - HEALTH CARE/PROVIDERS - Provides for the use of artificial intelligence by healthcare providers (Neutral Monitor)
- HB 266, Wiley - MEDICAID - Provides for the personal needs allowance of residents in nursing homes and other facilities (Neutral Monitor)
- HB 400, Chenevert - HEALTH/CHILDREN - Provides relative to a minor's consent for medical procedures and treatments (Oppose)
- HB 531, Travis Johnson - NURSES - Provides for forensic medical examinations of sexual assault survivors (Neutral Monitor)
- HB 559, Echols - HEALTH/LDH - Organizes the state human services district under the secretary and surgeon general of the Louisiana Department of Health (Neutral Monitor)
- HB 560, Egan - MEDICAID - Provides relative to the Medical Assistance Programs Integrity Act (Neutral Monitor)
- HB 565, Spell - MEDICAID - Provides relative to third-party liability, claim adjudication, and timeliness of such within the state medical assistance program (Support)
Senate Judiciary C
Tuesday, April 29, 2025 10:30 AM Committee Room F
- SB 154, Morris - AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES - Criminalizes the possession or distribution of kratom. (8/1/25) (Support)
Senate Insurance
Wednesday, April 30, 2025 9:00 AM Committee Room A-B
- SB 111, Seabaugh - INSURANCE CLAIMS - Provides for fair claims processing. (8/1/25) (Neutral Monitor)
Senate Health and Welfare
Wednesday, April 30, 2025 9:30 AM John J. Hainkel, Jr. Room
- SB 14, McMath - PUBLIC HEALTH - Provides relative to nutrition. (Neutral Monitor)
House Final Passage
- HB 34, Glorioso - CIVIL/LAW: Provides for transparency in medical expenses (Neutral Monitor)
- HB 60, Galle - VETERANS: Provides relative to healthcare facilities operated by the Department of Veterans Affairs for war veterans (Neutral Monitor)
HB 117, Echols - WORKERS COMPENSATION: Provides for adoption of a medical fee reimbursement schedule for workers' compensation (Support) - HB 427, Bamburg - CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides for a reversionary trust (Neutral Monitor)
- HB 440, Chance Henry - INSURANCE CLAIMS: Provides relative to a claimant's duty to mitigate damages with respect to the actions for recovery (Neutral Monitor)
- HB 517, Brass - TAX/TOBACCO TAX: 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)
Senate Final Passage
- SB 42, Selders - HEALTH CARE: Provides relative to perinatal behavioral health treatment. (8/1/25) (Neutral Monitor)
- SB 70, Myers - PHEALTH SERVICES: Provides relative to remote patient monitoring services. (gov sig) (Neutral Monitor)
- SB 117, Miguez - NUTRITION: Prohibits the serving and selling of ultra-processed foods in public schools. (gov sig) (Support)
- SB 129, Pressly - INSURERS: Requires health insurers to cover proton therapy for cancer patients. (8/1/25) (Neutral Monitor)
- SB 156, Pressly - HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: Provides for in vitro fertilization. (8/1/25) (Support)
- SB 182, Talbot - MEDICAID: Provides relative to Medicaid prior authorization during a declared emergency. (8/1/25) (Neutral Monitor)