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.
- Contribute to LaFamPac.
Coming Up This Week
Tuesday, May 20, 2025 10:00 AM Room 6
- SB 78 - MYERS - CONTROL DANGER SUBSTANCE - Provides relative to drug paraphernalia. (gov sig) (Neutral/Monitor)
Tuesday, May 20, 2025 9:30 AM Room 2
- HB 264 - ECHOLS - INSURANCE/HEALTH - Provides for transparency and compensation practices relative to pharmacy benefit managers (Neutral/Monitor)
House Health and Welfare
Tuesday, May 20, 2025 9:30 AM Room 5
- SB 17 - BOUDREAUX - HEALTH SERVICES - Repeals the termination date of the Palliative Care Interdisciplinary Advisory Council. (gov sig) (Neutral/Monitor)
- SB 26 - BOUDREAUX - PUBLIC HEALTH - Provides relative to diabetes information. (8/1/25) (Neutral/Monitor)
- SB 70 - MYERS - HEALTH SERVICES - Provides relative to remote patient monitoring services. (gov sig) (Neutral/Monitor)
Senate Judiciary A
Tuesday, May 20, 2025 9:00 AM John J. Hainkel, Jr. Room
- SB 209 - HODGES - CIVIL PROCEDURE - Provides for recoverable damages and medical expenses for personal injury from a motor vehicle accident. (8/1/25) (Neutral/Monitor)
House Health and Welfare
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 9:30 AM Room 5
- HCR 44 - BOYD - HEALTH/CANCER - Urges the Louisiana Department of Health to develop a program for early breast cancer screening (Neutral/Monitor)
- SB 2 - FESI - PUBLIC HEALTH - Provides relative to public water systems. (1/1/26) (Neutral/Monitor)
- SB 14 - MCMATH - PUBLIC HEALTH - Provides relative to nutrition. (See Act) (Neutral/Monitor)
- SB 19 - FESI - PHARMACEUTICALS - Provides relative to the dispensing of ivermectin. (gov sig) (Neutral/Monitor)
- SB 134 - PRESSLY - HEALTH CARE - Provides relative to health care definitions. (8/1/25) (Neutral/Monitor)
House Insurance
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 9:30 AM Room 3
- SB 129 - PRESSLY - INSURERS - Requires health insurers to cover proton therapy for cancer patients. (8/1/25) (Neutral/Monitor)
Senate Insurance
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 9:30 AM Room A-B
- SB 173 - JACKSON-ANDREWS - HEALTH/ACC INSURANCE - Provides for reimbursement rates paid by Pharmacy Benefit Managers. (8/1/25) (Neutral/Monitor)
- HB 382 - BAYHAM - INSURANCE/HEALTH - Requires insurance coverage of home visiting services for newborns and young children (Neutral/Monitor)
Senate Health and Welfare
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 10:00 AM John J. Hainkel, Jr. Room
- SR 98 - MIZELL - PUBLIC HEALTH - Requests the Louisiana Department of Health to educate the public on risk factors and symptoms of lung cancer and to promote lung cancer screening. (Neutral/Monitor)
- SCR 32 - MCMATH - CONGRESS - Memorializes Congress to avoid cuts to the Medicaid program. (Neutral/Monitor)
- HB 60 - GALLE - VETERANS - Provides relative to healthcare facilities operated by the Department of Veterans Affairs for war veterans (Neutral/Monitor)
- HB 210 - CHASSION - PHARMACIES - Provides relative to retention and archiving of records in the state prescription monitoring program (Support)
- HB 560 - EGAN - MEDICAID - Provides relative to the Medical Assistance Programs Integrity Act (Neutral/Monitor)
Senate Labor and Industrial Relations
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 1:00 p.m. Room C
- HB 117 - ECHOLS - WORKERS COMPENSATION - Provides for adoption of a medical fee reimbursement schedule for workers' compensation (Neutral/Monitor)