Legislative Acts

2024 Legislative Acts

HB 109, Act 192: ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE: Provides relative to the review of agency rules

HB 372, Act 691: HEALTH CARE/PROVIDERS: Provides relative to patient wait time for the provision of emergency care

HB 374, Act 692: HEALTH CARE/FACILITIES:  Provides relative to facility need review

HB 446, Act 617: PUBLIC MEETINGS:  Provides relative to notifications of public meetings and duties of public bodies and the commissioner of administration relative thereto

HB 592, Act 624: HEALTH CARE/PROVIDERS:  Provides relative to workplace violence in healthcare settings

HB 687, Act 444: HEALTH:  Provides relative to the licensing of "PACE" program providers

HB 716, Act 568: LICENSING:  Provides for universal recognition of occupational licenses

HB 849, Act 737: HEALTH CARE/FACILITIES:  Provides relative to healthcare outcomes for patient's suffering with behavioral health issues

HB 868, Act 743: MENTAL HEALTH:  Provides relative to standards for psychiatric hospitals and residential substance abuse facilities

HB 954, Act 644: LICENSING:  Provides relative to occupations and professions

HB 976, Act 666: HEALTH CARE/FACILITIES:  Provides relative to visitation policies at certain healthcare facilities and requires such facilities to allow in-person visitation

HB 977, Act 464: PUBLIC PRINTING:  Provides for official journals for the state and political subdivisions and for publishing legal notices

SB 55, Act 122:   HEALTH CARE:  Provides relative to post-birth information. 

SB 57, Act 286:  PSYCHOLOGISTS:  Provides relative to the practice of psychology.

SB 60, Act 253:  FEES/LICENSES/PERMITS:  Provides relative to occupational licenses.

SB 92, Act 145:  CHILDREN'S CODE:  Provides relative to the Safe Haven Law.

SB 124, Act 669: CRIMINAL JUSTICE:  Creates the Sexual Assault Survivor's Bill of Rights. 

SB 133, Act 395: PUBLIC HEALTH:  Provides relative to certain international organizations.

SB 276, Act 246: CRIME/PUNISHMENT:  Creates the crime of coerced criminal abortion by means of fraud to prohibit a third-party from knowingly using an abortion-inducing drug to cause, or attempt to cause, an abortion on an unsuspecting pregnant mother without her knowledge or consent and amends various abortion criminal laws to add the crime of attempted abortion.

SB 414, Act 398: CHILDREN:  Authorizes the installation and use of newborn safety devices at infant relinquishment sites designated in the Safe Haven Law. (8/1/24)

SB 455, Act 588: HEALTH SERVICES:  Restricts the location of certain psychiatric facilities. (gov sig)

SB 487, Act 669: HOSPITALS:  Provides for hospital drug screenings. (8/1/24)

SB 489, Act 534: STATE OFFICIALS:  Provides for the duties of the State Fire Marshal. (8/1/24)

2023 Legislative Acts

HB 123, Act 3: Provides relative to nursing home requirements and standards for emergency preparedness plans

HB 291, Act 367: Provides for Visitation Policies at Certain Healthcare Facilities

 HB 319, Act 4: Repeals a provision of licensure by endorsement for nurses

HB 320, Act 80: Provides relative to Nursing Education-enrolled

HB 541, Act 27: Designates a portion of law as the "Lane Allen Gottschalck Law"

SB 29, Act 35: Provides relative to the use of a surgical smoke plume evacuation system

SB 52, Act 98: Provides for technical corrections beyond the authority of the Louisiana State Law Institute to certain citations in the Administrative Procedure Act

SB 66, Act 322: Provides relative to telehealth services

SB 169, Act 193: Provides for tracking rape kits from collection through conviction

SB 186, Act 263: Provides relative to the Occupational Therapy Licensure Compact

2022 Legislative Acts

HB 1062, Act 583: Provides relative to Occupational Licensing

HB 189, Act 112: MAC's in ARCP's

HB 291, Act 479: EPP in Nursing Homes, Office of State Fire Marshall

HB 312, Act 461: Workplace violence in healthcare settings

HB 384, Act 619: PDHC operation of cameras

HB 555, Act 483: Healthcare professionals with Occupational licenses

HB 625, Act 344: Off-site locations of BHS providers

HB 639, Act 486: Occupational licensing for workers with criminal histories

HB 709, Act 390: BHS Providers furnishing services regardless of client location

HB 933, Act 522: EPP for all licensed Nursing Homes

HB 958, Act 577: Nurse Staffing Agencies licensure in LA

SB 104, Act 537: Communication devices in Abortion facilities

SB 136, Act 129: Protections for ER, EMS, and Healthcare Professionals

SB 147, Act 540: Sexual assault survivors to have access to documents from forensic medical exam

SB 167, Act 597: EPP for Nursing Homes

SB 268, Act 309: Opioid treatment programs for pregnant women

SB 30, Act 531: FNR in-person SRR and notification

SB 33, Act 253: Alternate electrical power sources in Nursing Facilities

SB 342, Act 545: Application of Abortion statutes

SB 388, Act 548: Prohibits sale of Abortion-inducing drugs and crime of chemical abortions