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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Coming Up This Week
House Ways and Means
Monday, May 5, 2025 9:00 AM Committee Room 6
Monday, May 5, 2025 9:00 AM Committee Room 6
- HB 325 - BRYANT - TAX/TOBACCO TAX: Provides for the rate of tax levied on certain cigars (Support)
- HB 668 - WRIGHT - TAX/EXCISE: Continues a portion of the excise tax levied on cigarettes in statute and authorizes a reduced excise tax rate on certain tobacco products (Oppose)
- HB 669 - RISER - TAX/EXCISE: Continues a portion of the excise tax levied on cigarettes in statute and authorizes a reduced excise tax rate on certain tobacco products (Oppose)
House Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works
Tuesday, May 6, 2025 9:30 a.m. Committee Room 3
Tuesday, May 6, 2025 9:30 a.m. Committee Room 3
- HB 474 - BRAUD - MTR VEHICLE/EMERGENCY: Provides relative to emergency vehicles for coroners (Monitor)
Senate Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs
Tuesday, May 6, 2025 9:30 AM John J. Hainkel, Jr. Room
Tuesday, May 6, 2025 9:30 AM John J. Hainkel, Jr. Room
- SB 243 - REESE - TAX EXEMPTIONS: Provides relative to the sales and use tax exemption for the sale of certain prescription drugs. (gov sig) (Monitor)
House Committee on Insurance
Wednesday, May 7, 2025 9:00 a.m. Committee Room 3
- HB 264 - ECHOLS - INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides for the utilization of pharmaceutical rebates by a pharmacy benefit manager (Monitor)
- HB 357 - FREEMAN - INSURANCE/HEALTH: Requires health insurance coverage for integrative cancer treatments (Monitor)
House and Governmental Affairs
Wednesday, May 7, 2025 9:30 a.m. Committee Room 2
- HB 399 - CHENEVERT - DIETITIANS: Provides with respect to the profession of dietetics and dieticians (Monitor)
- HB 596 - WRIGHT - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: Provides for revisions to the Campaign Finance Disclosure Act (Monitor)
House Education
Wednesday, May 7, 2025 9:30 a.m. Committee Room 1
- HB 202 - BOYD - HIGHER EDUCATION: Provides for a privacy waiver relative to certain mental health information of postsecondary education students (Monitor)
- HB 486 - FISHER - HEALTH: Requires public schools to offer a mental health assessment to certain students (Monitor)
House Health and Welfare
Wednesday, May 7, 2025 9:30 a.m. Committee Room 5
- HB 112 - EDMONSTON - DRUGS/PRESCRIPTION: Provides relative to the prescribing, administering, and dispensing of drugs for off-label use (Monitor)
- HB 137 - CARLSON - HEALTH/EMERG MED SERVICE: Authorizes psychologists and medical psychologists to evaluate a patient via telehealth for emergency certificates (Monitor)
- HB 138 - DEWITT - PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS: Provides with respect to the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners (Monitor)
- HB 377 - OWEN, CHARLES - HEALTH SERVICES: Authorizes an individual to refuse certain medical treatments (Oppose)
- HB 422 - FREEMAN - HEALTH CARE: Provides with respect to timely reimbursement of overpaid medical bills to patients by healthcare providers (Monitor)
- HB 514 - WILLARD - INSURANCE/HEALTH: Modifies the Louisiana Doula Registry Board within the Louisiana Department of Health and provides for respective regulatory authority (Monitor)
- HB 555 - AMEDEE - HEALTH/MEDICAL TREATMENT: Provides relative to medical intervention (Oppose)
House Administration of Criminal Justice
Wednesday, May 7, 2025 10:00 a.m. Committee Room 6
- HB 15 - MACK - CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES: Adds certain substances to the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Law (Monitor)
Senate Committee on Health and Welfare
Wednesday, May 7, 2025 1:00 p.m. John J. Hainkel, Jr. Room
- SB 96 - MCMATH - MEDICAID: Establishes Medicaid reimbursement rates for certain behavioral health services. (7/1/25) (Monitor)
- SB 102 - ALLAIN - HEALTH CARE: Provides relative to obstetric care. (gov sig) (Monitor)
- SB 120 - SELDERS - MENTAL HEALTH: Provides relative to use of emergency certificates for formal voluntary admission. (8/1/25) (Monitor)
- SB 130 - CLOUD - MEDICAID: Provides relative to Medicaid. (gov sig) (Monitor)
- SB 174 - JACKSON-ANDREWS - PUBLIC HEALTH: Provides relative to screening pregnant women for HIV and syphilis. (gov sig) (Monitor)
House Health and Welfare
Thursday, May 8, 2025 9:30 a.m. Committee Room 5
- HB 423 - LACOMBE - HEALTH CARE/PROVIDERS: Provides relative to healthcare providers displaying evidence of proper licensure in advertising (Support)
- HB 559 - ECHOLS - HEALTH/LDH: Organizes the state human services district under the secretary and surgeon general of the Louisiana Department of Health (Monitor)
- HB 565 - SPELL, ANNIE - MEDICAID: Provides relative to third-party liability, claim adjudication, and timeliness of such within the state medical assistance program (Support)
- HB 595 - PHELPS - MEDICAID: Provides relative to Medicaid coverage through the TEFRA option program (Monitor)
- HB 655 - FISHER - HEALTH/LDH: Provides relative to fees charged by the Louisiana Department of Health in parish health units (Monitor)
- HB 658 - TURNER - MEDICAID: Establishes the Medicaid Trust Fund for Addiction Recovery (Monitor)
- HB 661 - MILLER, D. - HEALTH/LDH: Provides relative to fees collected by the Louisiana Department of Health (Monitor)