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Track 2,216 bills from the Louisiana 2018 legislative session. 500 bills have passed. View Louisiana House of Representatives and Senate legislation, sponsors, and voting records.
Bills (2000)
Constitutional amendment to authorize the phase-in of increases in ad valorem taxation under certain circumstances. (2/3 - CA13s1(A)) (RE1 SEE FISC NOTE LF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Constitutional amendment to require unanimous juries for felonies. (2/3 - CA13s1(A))
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Constitutional amendment to provide for disqualification from seeking or holding an elective office. (2/3-CA13sl(A))
Sponsor: Conrad Appel
Constitutional amendment to extend special assessment for, and exemptions for disabled veterans and their spouses, and for surviving spouses of military personnel, law enforcement and fire protection officers, and first responders from, ad valorem tax purposes on homesteads to apply to persons with usufruct when naked ownership is in trust. (2/3 - CA13s1(A)) (RE SEE FISC NOTE LF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Jonathan Perry
Constitutional amendment to permit the donation of the use of public equipment and personnel to the state or a political subdivision. (2/3 - CA13s1) (EN SEE FISC NOTE See Note)
Sponsor: Dale Erdey
Constitutional amendment to remove authority to fund state police for traffic control from the Transportation Trust Fund. (2/3 - CA13s1(A)) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)
Sponsor: Patrick Cortez
Provides relative to enforcement of unfair sales of motor fuel
Sponsor: Lance Harris
Provides for end-market uses of waste tires and waste tire material and repeals the Waste Tire Program Task Force.
Sponsor: Blake Miguez
Prohibits the use of the Conservation Fund for any building acquisition unless the acquisition is approved by the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: Cameron Henry
Provides relative to the members of the Louisiana International Deep Water Gulf Transfer Terminal board of commissioners
Sponsor: Raymond Garofalo
Establishes the Louisiana Capital Outlay Revolving Loan Bank to provide financial assistance to local governments and political subdivisions for certain capital infrastructure projects (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD RV See Note)
Sponsor: Neil Abramson
Provides relative to the Louisiana Inclusionary Zoning and Workforce Affordable Housing Act. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Daniel Martiny
Provides relative to the allocation of expenditures in the operating budget (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: Tony Bacala
Requires the reporting of positions and funding to the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Rick Edmonds
Provides relative to emergency and disaster management
Sponsor: Jerome Zeringue
Provides relative to expungements
Sponsor: Lowell Hazel
Prohibits disclosure by the registrar of voters, clerk of court, and Department of State of information that, if disclosed, may compromise the security of the state voter registration computer system and election management system
Sponsor: Robert Shadoin
Extends the termination date of laws authorizing the recommendation or prescription of medical marijuana in the treatment of certain debilitating medical conditions
Sponsor: Vincent Pierre
Provides for a hold on the renewal of an operator's license under certain circumstances (EN DECREASE SG RV See Note)
Sponsor: Denise Marcelle
Provides for the transfer, deposit, and use of certain treasury funds (EG SEE FISC NOTE GF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Cameron Henry
Provides relative to threats of violence or terrorism at elementary and secondary schools, including investigation and reporting thereof and required mental health evaluations (EN INCREASE EX See Note)
Sponsor: Tony Bacala
Provides relative to the composition of charter school boards in certain parishes. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Wesley Bishop
Provides for modifications to the standstill budget to include means of finance substitutions for discretionary and nondiscretionary requirements. (8/1/18) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: Jack Donahue
Provides relative to Fetal Organ Whistleblower Account. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD RV See Note)
Sponsor: Ryan Gatti
Provides relative to foster care children in high school. (gov sig) (EN +$961,264 GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Ryan Gatti
Provides relative to death certificates. (1/1/19)
Sponsor: Neil Riser
Provides for the comprehensive Capital Outlay budget
Sponsor: Neil Abramson
Provides relative to funding for waiver services for individuals with developmental disabilities. (8/1/18) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)
Sponsor: Sharon Hewitt
Provides relative to the authorization for therapeutic use of marijuana
Sponsor: Edward James
Provides for the required reporting of certain revenue, exemptions, credits, rebates in the tax exemption budget and on LaTrac. (8/1/18) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Changes certain TOPS initial eligibility requirements and provides relative to the sharing of certain student data. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Dan Morrish
Provides relative to felony probation. (See Act)
Sponsor: Dan Claitor
Provides with respect to the Office of Group Benefits. (8/1/18) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV See Note)
Sponsor: Dan Claitor
Provides for certain funds in the state treasury and the powers, duties, functions, and responsibilities of the Dedicated Fund Review Subcommittee of the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget. (See Act) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Sharon Hewitt
Requires district offices of the Department of Transportation and Development to publish on the internet information regarding construction and maintenance work within the district. (8/1/18) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)
Sponsor: Patrick Cortez
Requires reporting of data on healthcare provider claims submitted to Medicaid managed care organizations
Sponsor: Jack McFarland
Adds former members of the legislature to the list of persons who are excepted from the crime of illegal carrying of weapons
Sponsor: Joseph Bouie
Provides relative to school employee participation in student-initiated prayer. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Ryan Gatti
Provides relative to early release of offenders for "good time" and parole. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Mack White
Provides relative to free expression on college campuses. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Rick Ward
Requires certain state agencies to install internet filters to block content which is sexually explicit, pornographic, or sexually harassing. (8/1/18) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Beth Mizell
Defines abortion and feticide as "crimes of violence". (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: John Milkovich
Provides relative to the Medicaid Pharmaceutical and Therapeutics Committee. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Fred Mills
Re-creates the Department of State and the statutory entities made a part of the department by law. (6/30/18)
Sponsor: Karen Peterson
Provides relative to the Medicaid Subcommittee of the Health and Social Services Estimating Conference. (gov sig) (EG NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: Sharon Hewitt
Provides relative to caller ID spoofing. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Gary Smith
Provides for certain insurance benefits for firemen and law enforcement officers who suffer a catastrophic injury resulting in permanent and total disability caused by an individual with the specific intent to kill an officer while the fireman or officer is engaged in the performance of his official duties. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Dale Erdey
Provides relative to disciplinary hearings by professional and occupational licensing boards and commissions. (8/1/18) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV See Note)
Sponsor: John Milkovich
Revises definition of "children" in the Children's Code. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Ronnie Johns
Provides relative to capital outlay oversight process. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Troy Carter
Provides relative to withdrawal of candidates. (gov sig) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: Troy Carter
Provides relative to the special assessment level for, and exemptions for disabled veterans and their spouses, and for surviving spouses of military personnel, law enforcement and fire protection officers, and first responders from, ad valorem tax purposes on homesteads when naked ownership is in trust. (See Act) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Jonathan Perry
Authorizes payments funded by the system experience account to certain retirees and beneficiaries. (2/3 - CA 10s29(F)) (6/30/18) (EG $5,163,742 APV)
Sponsor: Barrow Peacock
Provides for military surplus motor vehicles. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Sharon Hewitt
Provides relative to confidentiality of certain taxpayer information concerning Medicaid eligibility. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Provides relative to appellate panels. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: John Milkovich
Provides relative to the Military Service Relief Act. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Barrow Peacock
Creates the crime of government benefits fraud (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Sherman Mack
Provides relative to the collection and reporting of certain data regarding students with exceptionalities. (gov sig) (EG1 NO IMPACT GF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Dan Claitor
Abolishes boards and commissions, authorities, districts, and like entities that are inactive. (8/1/18) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: Ryan Gatti
Provides for penalties for persons convicted for soliciting prostitutes. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Beth Mizell
Requires reporting, policies, and education on hazing
Sponsor: Stephen Carter
Provides relative to registration and voting by a person convicted of a felony (EN +$66,698 GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Patricia Smith
Provides relative to information and access to breast reconstructive surgery. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Troy Carter
Provides relative to motor vehicles and auto hulk sold as scrap for dismantling (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: Barbara Norton
Amends penalties relative to the crime of hazing (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Nancy Landry
Provides relative to the composition of the La. State Board of Medical Examiners and investigations of physicians conducted by the board
Sponsor: Katrina Jackson-Andrews
Creates the Early Childhood Care and Education Commission and pilot programs for community early childhood care and education networks (RE SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Stephanie Hilferty
Provides for benefits for certain members of the Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System totally and permanently disabled in the line of duty by an intentional act of violence (EN INCREASE APV)
Sponsor: Terry Brown
Provides for instruction on threats to school safety in public schools and public postsecondary education institutions (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Barbara Norton
Creates the crime of negligent arson. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Daniel Martiny
Provides relative to the failure to seek medical assistance when reckless behavior results in serious bodily injury (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Reid Falconer
Provides relative to conveyance devices (EN INCREASE SD RV See Note)
Sponsor: Scott Simon
Provides relative to behavioral health services providers. (gov sig) (EG1 NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: W. Jay Luneau
Creates the Empowering Families to Live Well Louisiana Act. (gov sig) (REF SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Provides relative to the regulation of pharmacy benefit managers (RE NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: Robert Johnson
Provides relative to prescription drug pricing. (8/1/18) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: Fred Mills
Provides relative to the Nurse Licensure Compact. (gov sig) (EG2 INCREASE SG EX See Note)
Sponsor: Barrow Peacock
Authorizes nursing home residents or their legal representatives to have monitoring devices installed in those residents' rooms (RE SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Kirk Talbot
Requires public safety telecommunicators who provide dispatch for emergency medical conditions be trained in the delivery of telephone CPR. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Troy Carter
Provides for the annual amount of retirement allowance for members of the Registrars of Voters Employees' Retirement System (EN SEE ACTUARIAL NOTE APV)
Sponsor: Barbara Carpenter
Provides relative to testing for lead in drinking water (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX See Note)
Sponsor: Marcus Hunter
Provides for electronic prescribing of noncontrolled legend drugs. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Eric LaFleur
Provides relative to student discipline. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Wesley Bishop
Increases boat registration fees
Sponsor: Jack McFarland
Prohibits medical treatment furlough to any offender serving a sentence for a conviction of first degree murder. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Ryan Gatti
Provides relative to the membership and quorum of the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board
Sponsor: Christopher Leopold
Authorizes certain parish tourism commissions to levy a hotel occupancy tax and overnight campsite parking tax to be distributed pursuant a cooperative endeavor agreement with the economic development authority. (7/1/18) (EN INCREASE LF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Fred Mills
Requires companies who sell DNA testing kits to inform a purchaser of certain information. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Provides relative to the transfer of purse funds from one horse racing facility to another. (See Act)
Sponsor: Eric LaFleur
Provides for the acquisition of blighted property in certain municipalities. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Edward Price
Provides ethics exceptions to allow a public servant of a political subdivision, his immediate family members, or related legal entities to enter into specified transactions under the supervision or jurisdiction of the agency of the public servant under certain circumstances
Sponsor: Edward James
Provides relative to procedures for HIV testing in cases of possible exposure in certain healthcare settings and emergency situations
Sponsor: Eugene Reynolds
Provides relative to free parking for disabled veterans at airports
Sponsor: Dodie Horton
Provides relative to the observation or filming of a person and the disclosure of certain images of a person
Sponsor: Julie Stokes
Requires the collection and reporting of information regarding inmate participation in certain work programs
Sponsor: Edward James
Transfers the responsibilities of the Atchafalaya Basin Research and Promotion Board and the Atchafalaya Basin Program from within the Department of Natural Resources to the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority. (7/1/18) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)
Sponsor: Norby Chabert
Provides for the membership of the Louisiana Deferred Compensation Commission (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Kevin Pearson
Provides relative to the Major Events Incentive Program Fund and Louisiana Economic Development (EG1 SEE FISC NOTE GF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Walt Leger
Registration of non-motorized house boats (EN INCREASE SD RV See Note)
Sponsor: Malinda White
Provides relative to powers of crime prevention districts
Sponsor: Denise Marcelle
Increases the salary of the marshal of the City Court of Natchitoches. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Gerald Long
Provides relative to the carrying of a concealed handgun at a school
Sponsor: Blake Miguez
Provides relative to maternity and adoptive leave for teachers (EN INCREASE LF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Rick Edmonds
Provides relative to a mental health evaluation upon the issuance of a protective order in domestic abuse cases
Sponsor: Rodney Lyons
Provides relative to tax sales and post-sale notice. (8/1/18) (EN NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Provides for the establishment of airboat trails on wildlife management areas
Sponsor: Clay Schexnayder
Authorizes the commissioner of insurance to apply for a state innovation waiver to establish and implement a reinsurance program
Sponsor: Major Thibaut
Requires notification by bed and breakfast businesses that rooms are under film surveillance
Sponsor: Marcus Hunter
Defines "economic development project" for purposes of a late approval recommendation from the secretary of the Dept. of Economic Development (EN NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Paula Davis
Provides with respect to financial security for survivors of federal law enforcement officers (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Tony Bacala
Authorizes public institutions of higher education, when licensed, to conduct raffles. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Dan Morrish
Requires age and work status verification prior to work in a sexually oriented business to prevent human trafficking
Sponsor: Julie Stokes
Requires exhaustion of all other available coverage
Sponsor: Stephen Dwight
Creates and provides for the Dairy Stabilization Study Commission. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Beth Mizell
Provides relative to the educational requirements of the ATC Responsible Vendor Program for bartenders, servers, and security personnel (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Stephanie Hilferty
Provides relative to parole eligibility. (11/1/18)
Sponsor: Daniel Martiny
Provides that public entities are liable for interest due for failure to pay progressive stage or final payments on public contracts under certain conditions. (8/1/18) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Conrad Appel
Requires the division of administration to establish, maintain, and make public, a list of unpaid outstanding final tort judgments against the state (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Franklin Foil
Provides for access to behavioral health services providers in schools
Sponsor: Vincent Pierre
Provides relative to the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Law (EN NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Sherman Mack
Provides relative to the Louisiana Licensed Professional Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors Board of Examiners
Sponsor: Julie Stokes
Establishes the Occupational Licensing Review Act
Sponsor: Julie Emerson
Provides relative to foreign language immersion programs in public schools (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)
Sponsor: Polly Thomas
Provides relative to placements minor's funds from a judgment or settlement. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: W. Jay Luneau
Creates a program for education savings accounts for tuition expenses for elementary and secondary schools (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Franklin Foil
Provides with respect to the Office of Group Benefits. (8/1/18) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: Ronnie Johns
Authorizes each public and nonpublic school governing authority to adopt a policy relative to the supply and administration of naloxone and other opioid antagonists
Sponsor: Dustin Miller
Creates the Louisiana Jobs Now Fund for the purpose of funding postsecondary education degree and certificate production in high-demand fields (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)
Sponsor: Mark Abraham
Authorizes the levy, collection, and distribution of an additional hotel and motel tax of one percent by the Southwest Louisiana Convention and Visitors Bureau. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Ronnie Johns
Removes the limitation on the number of expungements a person may receive for persons seeking an expungement under certain circumstances
Sponsor: Joseph Marino
Provides relative to the Upper Audubon Security District in Orleans Parish
Sponsor: Neil Abramson
Provides relative to unauthorized entry of and criminal damage to a critical infrastructure
Sponsor: Major Thibaut
Amends the criminal sentences and fines for convictions of pornography involving juveniles (EN INCREASE LF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Christopher Leopold
Provides relative to the Consolidated Local Government Public Finance Act. (See Act) (EN NO IMPACT LF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Eric LaFleur
Provides relative to death investigation documents
Sponsor: Franklin Foil
Changes eligibility requirements for the Quality Jobs Program for employers in parishes with relatively low per capita income (RE NO IMPACT GF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Neil Abramson
Requires those who serve temporary protective orders or protective orders to transmit a service return to the Louisiana Protective Order Registry
Sponsor: Lawrence Bagley
Provides relative to membership on the Capital Area Groundwater Conservation District board of commissioners
Sponsor: Stephen Carter
Provides relative to definition of vapor products
Sponsor: Vincent Pierre
Provides relative to reports required of the executive branch by statute or resolution. (7/1/18) (EN NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Sharon Hewitt
Establishes the Occupational Board Compliance Act (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Patrick Connick
Provides relative to non-gaming supplier permits (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD RV See Note)
Sponsor: Chad Brown
Provides for out-of-state automobile insurance coverage. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: W. Jay Luneau
Provides relative to responsive verdicts (EN NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Joseph Marino
Provides relative to the reemployment of retirees of the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana (EN INCREASE APV)
Sponsor: Gregory Miller
Modifies requirements for obtaining a commercial driver's license when an applicant is employed in a specific military position
Sponsor: Jerry Gisclair
Prohibits the transportation of live feral swine (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Kirk Talbot
Requires public school boards to notify certain school bus operators of route vacancies by certified mail
Sponsor: James Armes
Provides relative to sharing of student information with certain postsecondary education institutions conducting academic research
Sponsor: Walt Leger
Provides relative to literacy screenings for students (EN INCREASE LF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Julie Emerson
Provides relative to the certification and employment in schools of certain persons convicted of felony offenses and the assessment of civil fines against public school boards who hire certain persons
Sponsor: Lance Harris
Provides relative to the direct shipment of wine. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Provides relative to group insurance expenses for certain clerks of court. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Fred Mills
Appropriates funds for the expenses of the judiciary for Fiscal Year 2018-2019
Sponsor: Cameron Henry
Provides relative to video poker. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Daniel Martiny
Makes supplemental appropriations for Fiscal Year 2017-2018
Sponsor: Cameron Henry
Makes appropriations for the expenses of the legislature for Fiscal Year 2018-2019
Sponsor: Taylor Barras
Provides relative to the members of the board of commissioners of certain hospital service districts
Sponsor: Charles Chaney
Creates the "Military Order of the Purple Heart First Responder Program" special prestige license plate
Sponsor: Julie Stokes
Provides relative to certain veteran-owned small entrepreneurships
Sponsor: Franklin Foil
Increases penalties for the crime of sexual assault of persons with infirmities and provides enhanced penalties under certain circumstances
Sponsor: Gary Carter
Amends provisions of law regarding emergency medical response vehicles (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: Bernard LeBas
Exempts specified personally identifying information related to reports of violations of student codes of conduct or other policies intended for the safety of students or employees of postsecondary education institutions from the Public Records Law
Sponsor: Franklin Foil
Provides relative to local sales taxes in Lafourche Parish (EN +$2,800,000 LF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Jerome Richard
Provides an exception from dual officeholding laws to allow a certified public accountant to hold an office on a school board and employment with a sheriff to provide financial or accounting services
Sponsor: Bernard LeBas
Provides relative to the authorized uses of inmate labor
Sponsor: Kenneth Havard
Provides relative to tax incentives granted by local governments for donations to local governments
Sponsor: Neil Abramson
Provides relative to emergency medical services transporting patients to alternative destinations. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Mack White
Provides relative to voting by persons in a nursing home
Sponsor: Samuel Jenkins
Provides for a voluntary fee on driver's license applications to benefit the Military Family Assistance Fund (EN INCREASE SD RV See Note)
Sponsor: Lowell Hazel
Provides relative to emergency management
Sponsor: Valarie Hodges
Allows for the use of the Budget Stabilization Fund for the state costs associated with a declared disaster (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)
Sponsor: Gary Carter
Provides for the regulation of the adoption of children
Sponsor: Rick Edmonds
Provides relative to the authority of the secretary of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections to appoint special agents
Sponsor: Kenneth Havard
Requires presentations at public meetings relative to plans for schools in need of academic improvement (EN INCREASE LF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Gary Carter
Provides for health insurance for the families of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty
Sponsor: Julie Emerson
Provides relative to limitations on certain changes to precinct boundaries during certain times
Sponsor: Gregory Miller
Removes an ethics exception which allows a person to be employed by a board when the person has served as a member of the board as designee of a mayor of certain municipalities
Sponsor: Stephanie Hilferty
Provides relative to motor vehicle service contracts
Sponsor: Paula Davis
Provides relative to the application of the habitual offender law
Sponsor: Patrick Connick
Changes the fee applicable to certain accident reports (EN INCREASE SG RV See Note)
Sponsor: Sherman Mack
Provides relative to water system testing at certain businesses which apply for or hold retail food permits
Sponsor: Scott Simon
Provides relative to the Judicial Council of the Supreme Court of Louisiana
Sponsor: Gary Carter
Provides for licensure of genetic counselors (RE INCREASE SG EX See Note)
Sponsor: Julie Stokes
Provides with respect to the development of appraisals and assessments of public service properties by the La. Tax Commission (EN NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Patrick Connick
Exempts board members of certain neighborhood security and improvement districts from Tier 2.1 financial disclosure requirements
Sponsor: Edward James
Creates the TOPS Income Fund (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD RV See Note)
Sponsor: Franklin Foil
Increases the waste tire disposal fee applicable to passenger and light truck tires (EN +$1,144,363 SD RV See Note)
Sponsor: Rodney Lyons
Provides relative to omnibus corporate filing regulations
Sponsor: Franklin Foil
Provides relative to prohibited acts by bail enforcement agents
Sponsor: Katrina Jackson-Andrews
Provides relative to leases and subleases of land and buildings owned by a port, harbor, or terminal district
Sponsor: Major Thibaut
Provides relative to the practice of chiropractic
Sponsor: Katrina Jackson-Andrews
Provides for payment of unfunded accrued liability by an employer participating in the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System (EN NO IMPACT APV)
Sponsor: Tony Bacala
Modifies relative to transfers of interest and property disclosure forms
Sponsor: Stephanie Hilferty
Provides relative to the indemnification of clerks of court and their employees (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Raymond Garofalo
Revises the Parents' Bill of Rights for Public Schools
Sponsor: Rick Edmonds
Makes revisions to the Louisiana Election Code
Sponsor: Robert Shadoin
Provides relative to disclosure of information in the state central registry of reports of child abuse and neglect (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: Robert Johnson
Provides that a recommendation for clemency by the Board of Pardons does not expire upon the expiration of a governor's term in office
Sponsor: Marcus Hunter
Provides relative to the possession of driver's licenses and special identification cards (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Edward James
Provides for the ordinary operating expenses of state government for Fiscal Year 2018-2019
Sponsor: Cameron Henry
Authorizes exemplary damages in civil actions for death from hazing. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Dan Claitor
Provides an exception with respect to certain telephonic solicitations during a declared state of emergency
Sponsor: Frank Hoffmann
Provides relative to Medicaid managed care organizations. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Fred Mills
Revises procedure regarding meetings to propose or renew taxes and to call an election. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Eric LaFleur
Provides relative to concealed carry of firearms for qualified retired law enforcement officers
Sponsor: Lowell Hazel
Provides relative to towable equipment. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Rick Ward
Creates the Capital Area Road and Bridge District. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Rick Ward
Provides relative to the use of a facility dog by a witness during a court proceeding
Sponsor: Beryl Amedee
Provides relative to bail after conviction. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Sharon Hewitt
Prohibits the issuance of motion picture tax credits for certain types of productions (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: Mark Abraham
Authorizes levee districts to provide extra compensation to certain levee district police officers. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Wesley Bishop
Provides for a special taxing district in certain parishes to fund construction and operation of courtroom and related facilities
Sponsor: Robert Johnson
Provides relative to contracts for Medicaid pharmacy benefit management services. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Fred Mills
Extends cooperative endeavor agreements for use of surface waters
Sponsor: Stuart Bishop
Provides relative to sheriffs' retiree health benefits
Sponsor: Kenneth Havard
Amends penalties for gross littering
Sponsor: Phillip DeVillier
Provides relative to the accreditation bodies that the Department of Public Safety and Corrections may use to issue permits to testing laboratories
Sponsor: Sherman Mack
Provides relative to the application for an occupational license
Sponsor: Jimmy Harris
Provides relative to a single uniform prescription drug prior authorization form. (See Act) (RE SEE FISC NOTE SG EX See Note)
Sponsor: Fred Mills
Correct statutory references for the litter program from the Department of Environmental Quality to the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries
Sponsor: Rodney Lyons
Provides relative to abortion clinics and services. (8/1/18) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: John Milkovich
Creates the crime of sexual abuse of an animal. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Provides relative to the Medicaid managed care annual report. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Ronnie Johns
Provides relative to prohibited conduct by state employees and agencies. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Fred Mills
Provides relative to persons participating in certain specialty court programs (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Joseph Marino
Provides relative to the requirements for submission of DNA samples by peace officers (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: Sherman Mack
Requests the Louisiana State Law Institute to study exemptions from seizure of certain retirement accounts
Sponsor: Franklin Foil
Commends Jacob Nichols and Live 2 Serve for service to the Baton Rouge community
Sponsor: Patricia Smith
Requests the La. Department of Health to study and report to the legislature concerning the potential implementation of mandatory case management in the Medicaid program
Sponsor: Jack McFarland
Requests the La. Department of Health to require all Medicaid managed care plans to participate in the quality incentive program
Sponsor: Tony Bacala
Requests a study of cost-effective means by which to facilitate emergency access to epinephrine at public places
Sponsor: Beryl Amedee
Requests the Louisiana State Law Institute to study provisions of law and make recommendations regarding modular homes
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Coussan
Designates the week of September 24-30, 2018, as Louisiana Craft Brewer Week
Sponsor: Robert Johnson
Commends Derrell Cohoon on being inducted as a Lifetime Honorary Member of the Louisiana Associated General Contractors, Inc.
Sponsor: Stuart Bishop
Commends posthumously Eddie Hughes, commends Eddie's Seafood and Soul Food Restaurant, designates "Eddie's Original Stuffed Shrimp" as the official Stuffed Shrimp of Louisiana, and recognizes July 14, 2018, as Eddie Hughes Day
Sponsor: Cedric Glover
Commends team owner Tommy Scott and general manager Scott Muscutt and the entire Mudbug organization upon the Shreveport Mudbugs winning the 2018 North American Hockey League Robertson Cup National Championship and for their contributions to bringing the 2018 Miss USA and Miss Teen USA pageants to George's Pond at the Hirsch Memorial Coliseum
Sponsor: Cedric Glover
Expresses condolences upon the death of former Alexandria city marshal James Byrd
Sponsor: Jeff Hall
Creates a pilot program for drinking water testing in schools
Sponsor: Marcus Hunter
Requests a study concerning means by which to improve the Medicaid estate recovery functions of the La. Department of Health
Sponsor: Gregory Miller
Creates a committee to study and develop a system for notification and registration of persons convicted of a terrorism offense
Sponsor: Stephanie Hilferty
Requests the Department of Insurance to establish a task force to conduct a comprehensive study of the commercial bail bond industry as a whole
Sponsor: Katrina Jackson-Andrews
Requests a subcommittee of the House Committee on Judiciary to undertake a study to determine whether a need exists to create a Commission on Prosecutorial Conduct
Sponsor: Marcus Hunter
Expresses condolences on the death of Bernard Norman Marcantel
Sponsor: John Guinn
Requests the House and Governmental Affairs Committee to meet to study moving all school board elections to the gubernatorial or presidential election
Sponsor: Rick Edmonds
Expresses condolences on the death of former Louisiana First Lady and U.S. Senator Elaine Edwards
Sponsor: Robert Johnson
Requests the Dept. of Public Safety and Corrections to provide a cost analysis and information relative to use of inmate labor for certain construction projects
Sponsor: Barbara Norton
Commends Earl O. Armstrong for his many contributions to Plaquemines Parish
Sponsor: Christopher Leopold
Requests the creation of the Louisiana Women's Incarceration Task Force
Sponsor: Patricia Smith
Creates the daylight saving time task force to study daylight saving time versus standard time
Sponsor: Julie Stokes
Requests the office of public health to study and report on cancer incidence in the Colfax, Louisiana area
Sponsor: Denise Marcelle
Recognizes the Tangipahoa Parish Fair as the oldest fair in Louisiana
Sponsor: Stephen Pugh
Provides for the selection and authority of commissioners representing the state when a convention is called to propose amendments to the U.S. Constitution pursuant to Article V
Sponsor: Mark Abraham
Commends the Reverend Titus Walker on his retirement after fifteen years at Northwest Louisiana Technical College and acknowledges his pastoral care at Solid Rock Baptist Church in Ruston
Sponsor: Patrick Jefferson
Requests the Louisiana State Law Institute to study and make recommendations for legislation to implement notaries public with limited authority
Sponsor: Raymond Garofalo
Commends the University Laboratory School football team on winning the Division II state championship
Sponsor: Denise Marcelle
Commends Philadelphia Eagles head coach Doug Pederson for his many accomplishments
Sponsor: Frank Hoffmann
Urges and requests the Department of Public Safety, office of motor vehicles, study and recommend best practices to provide for parent-taught driver's education
Sponsor: Beryl Amedee
Exempts certain Department of Wildlife and Fisheries projects from the capital outlay process (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: Eugene Reynolds
Provides relative to a study of the issue of courts raising prescription sua sponte
Sponsor: Edward James
Designates May 19-25, 2018, as Safe Boating Week in Louisiana
Sponsor: Stuart Bishop
Provides relative to healthcare licensing boards reporting to the House and Senate committees on health and welfare on their recognition of military veterans training in various healthcare occupations
Sponsor: Valarie Hodges
Creates the Slavery Ancestral Burial Grounds Preservation Commission
Sponsor: Ken Brass
Authorizes and directs the Louisiana State Law Institute to study certain aspects regarding actions for violations of the duty of good faith and fair dealings under insurance policies
Sponsor: Walt Leger
Directs the office of state buildings and grounds to duplicate all signage at the state capitol in French (EN +$44,440 SG EX See Note)
Sponsor: Reid Falconer
Expresses condolences on the death of Minnie Marilyn B. Crews
Sponsor: Malinda White
Requests the Louisiana State Law Institute to study the classification of a production payment under Louisiana law
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Coussan
Creates a study committee to evaluate Louisiana's prevalence of tobacco-related illnesses resulting from secondhand smoke exposure
Sponsor: Dustin Miller
Provides relative to security deposits for residential leases. (1/1/19)
Sponsor: Edward Price
Adopts the Interstate Corrections Compact in Louisiana
Sponsor: Terry Landry
Provides for the membership of certain museum boards
Sponsor: Barry Ivey
Authorizes additional methods for submission of certain public contracts
Sponsor: John Berthelot
Requires the Sabine River Authority to obtain approval of the Water Resources Commission prior to the sale of water outside the state. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Gerald Long
Provides for the Public Retirement Systems' Actuarial Committee. (6/30/18) (EN NO IMPACT APV)
Sponsor: Barrow Peacock
Provides relative to prescription for tuition fees. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Jonathan Perry
Provides relative to the reemployment of retired interpreters, educational transliterators, and certified educators of the hearing impaired in positions covered by the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana (EN INCREASE APV)
Sponsor: Patricia Smith
Provides for the collection of proceeds of fees from the University Neighborhood Security and Improvement District. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Conrad Appel
Designates portions of certain Louisiana Highways
Sponsor: Major Thibaut
Creates the Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies Advisory Council (RE1 NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: Stephanie Hilferty
Provides relative to eyewitness identifications. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Wesley Bishop
Names the LSU Health North Clinic and Urgent Care facility in Baton Rouge the "Willie F. Hawkins Emergency Care Center". (gov sig)
Sponsor: Yvonne Dorsey-Colomb
Increases penalties for the crime of introducing, possessing, or sending contraband into or from a penal institution
Sponsor: Kenneth Havard
Designates a portion of United States Highway 61 as the "Deputy Brandon Nielsen and Deputy Jeremy Triche Memorial Highway"
Sponsor: Clay Schexnayder
Modifies the documentation requirements for resale and reassignment of vehicles
Sponsor: Vincent Pierre
Provides relative to the master plan for postsecondary education. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Conrad Appel
Provides relative to controlled dangerous substances in a hospital. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Gerald Boudreaux
Provides relative to the prescription monitoring program. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Gerald Boudreaux
Authorizes and directs the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority to promulgate rules and guidelines for their contracting authorities
Sponsor: Jerome Zeringue
Provides relative to the interruption of prescription
Sponsor: Patrick Connick
Reduces the membership of the board of commissioners for the University Neighborhood Security and Improvement District in Orleans Parish. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Extends the authorization for ready-mixed concrete trucks to exceed the maximum permissible gross vehicle weight, under certain circumstances, until 2020
Sponsor: Jerry Gisclair
Provides relative to careless operation of a motor vehicle during flood conditions. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE LF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Dan Claitor
Provides relative to admission to treatment facility for mental illness pursuant to emergency certificate. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Dan Claitor
Provide for deposits into the Tangipahoa Parish Tourist Commission Fund and the Tangipahoa Parish Economic Development Fund (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD RV See Note)
Sponsor: Stephen Pugh
Provides that the legislative auditor shall make a best practices list available to local auditees. (gov sig) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: Jack Donahue
Provides relative to court costs in the 15th JDC (EN INCREASE LF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Coussan
Provides relative to health profession licensing board membership. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Fred Mills
Adds a person's telephone number when used for "caller ID spoofing" to the definition of "personal identifying information" for purposes of the crime of identity theft. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Provides for the in forma pauperis filing of expungements. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Dan Claitor
Requires that notice of intent and proposition for ad valorem taxes levied for volunteer fire departments indicate that a portion of tax proceeds will be paid to retirement systems. (gov sig) (EN NO IMPACT LF See Note)
Sponsor: Beth Mizell
Provides with respect to the exclusion or ejection of certain persons from gaming establishments
Sponsor: Walt Leger
Provides relative to disposition of children after adjudication of certain felony-grade delinquent acts. (8/1/18) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Provides that a person cannot give consent to sexual conduct while in police custody. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Authorizes the expropriation of property including rights-of-way for use in certain projects in the city of Lafayette and parish of Lafayette. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Patrick Cortez
Provides for processes, including public comment, to identify agency rules that may be contrary to law, outdated, unnecessary, overly complex, or burdensome (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Mark Wright
Provides an exception for a hospital service district commissioner that owns a pharmacy. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Jonathan Perry
Provides for implementation of the zero suicide initiative and a state suicide prevention plan (EN SEE FISC NOTE FF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Reid Falconer
Provides relative to the cancellation of inferior privileges, liens, and mortgages
Sponsor: Raymond Garofalo
Provides relative to application fees for alcoholic beverage permits
Sponsor: Stephen Dwight
Provides relative to administrative rule approval process applicable to school readiness tax credits. (8/1/18) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Provides for the independence of state and statewide retirement systems' actuaries. (6/30/18) (EN NO IMPACT APV)
Sponsor: Barrow Peacock
Provides relative to the chief judge of city courts with two or more divisions. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Jonathan Perry
Provides relative to distribution of funding from the Traumatic Head and Spinal Cord Injury Trust Fund (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)
Sponsor: Scott Simon
Requires the state Department of Education to provide student assessment results for certain assessments for dispersal to teachers. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Dan Morrish
Provides relative to meetings of the Amite River Basin Drainage and Water Conservation District. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Eddie Lambert
Provides relative to the use of restraints on juveniles during court proceedings
Sponsor: Joseph Marino
Provides for the classification of membership. (6/30/18) (EN DECREASE APV)
Sponsor: Barrow Peacock
Provides relative to premium costs for retired sheriffs and deputy sheriffs of the Vermilion Parish Sheriff's Office. (7/1/18)
Sponsor: Jonathan Perry
Revises provisions relative to the construction management at risk project delivery method for certain public contracts
Sponsor: Reid Falconer
Provides relative to the use of telecommunications devices as a form of harassment
Sponsor: Joseph Marino
Provides relative to information provided with the release of school performance scores and letter grades. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Dan Morrish
Provides relative to certain records of the registrar of voters (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Katrina Jackson-Andrews
Prohibits abortions later than fifteen weeks after conception. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: John Milkovich
Creates Language Equality and Acquisition for Deaf Kids (LEAD-K) Task Force to develop framework for assessing children who are deaf or hard of hearing to determine language skills and ensure kindergarten readiness (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: Patricia Smith
Exempts certain Department of Agriculture and Forestry records from the Public Records Law. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Francis Thompson
Provides relative to servicing of video draw poker devices
Sponsor: Chad Brown
Allows students to wear bulletproof backpacks. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Michael Walsworth
Extends and provides for the Louisiana Obesity Prevention and Management Commission. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Gerald Boudreaux
Require BESE to establish criteria whereby a teacher may be issued a dyslexia practitioner or dyslexia therapist ancillary certificate. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Conrad Appel
Authorizes the Department of Revenue to seek to enjoin preparers who engage in certain conduct. (7/1/18) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Prohibits the intentional exposure to HIV
Sponsor: Edmond Jordan
Authorizes the secretary of the Department of Revenue to refuse to register or issue or may revoke a state sales tax resale certificate to new business if the business reorganization was intended to evade payment of sales and use or withholding tax. (7/1/18) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV See Note)
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Requires instruction and display of the national motto "In God We Trust" in public schools. (gov sig) (EN NO IMPACT LF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Increases the fees for city marshals and constables for certain services (EN INCREASE LF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Barbara Carpenter
Provides for minimum standards for elevator access to multistory courthouses for the disabled community. (8/1/18) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Requires paid tax preparers to sign and provide an identification number on tax returns, reports, and claims filed with the Department of Revenue. (7/1/18) (EN INCREASE SG EX See Note)
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Provides for the issuance and administration of market agency and livestock dealer permits
Sponsor: Terry Brown
Provides relative to the Physical Therapy Licensure Compact. (gov sig) (EG DECREASE SG RV See Note)
Sponsor: Barrow Peacock
Provides relative to a unanimous jury in felony cases
Sponsor: Edmond Jordan
Provides relative to the penalty for cruelty to a juvenile. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Michael Walsworth
Provides relative to the State Licensing Board for Contractors. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Requires additional training for peace officers (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Patricia Smith
Relative to the Lafourche Parish hotel occupancy tax. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Norby Chabert
Provides that mammography examinations may be conducted through digital tomosynthesis (RE INCREASE SG EX See Note)
Sponsor: Julie Stokes
Provides relative to the La. Used Motor Vehicle Commission
Sponsor: Robert Shadoin
Provides relative to family violence and domestic abuse as factors to consider in determining visitation and custody. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Exempts the Tickfaw River and Blind River from certain restrictions of the Natural and Scenic Rivers Program
Sponsor: Clay Schexnayder
Provides relative to jurisdiction for sexual assault protection order cases
Sponsor: Patricia Smith
Creates and provides for the Advisory Board of the La. State Archives within the Dept. of State (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: Jimmy Harris
Re-creates the Department of Justice and provides relative to its structure
Sponsor: John Morris
Protects certain individuals from financial exploitation
Sponsor: Thomas Carmody
Provides relative to the mandatory reporting of certain crimes of sexual abuse of a minor
Sponsor: Beryl Amedee
Provides relative to virtual schools. (gov sig) (OR NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: Gerald Boudreaux
Expands DPS&C's substance abuse probation program to include treatment for mental health issues (EN NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Valarie Hodges
Provides for performance audits for statutory dedications that include a fee for service. (gov sig) (EN +$16,000 GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Jack Donahue
Authorizes the recommendation of medical marijuana for treating certain health conditions of persons with autism
Sponsor: Rodney Lyons
Provides relative to the Floodplain Evaluation and Management Commission
Sponsor: Valarie Hodges
Adds "employee" to those individuals authorized to keep a register of motor vehicle sales in salvage pools. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Mack White
Designates a roadway as the "Francis E. 'Hank' Lauricella Memorial Road"
Sponsor: Kirk Talbot
Reduces frequency of enhanced audits required of certain local auditees with at least three consecutive years of enhanced audits with no findings. (8/1/18) (EN NO IMPACT LF See Note)
Sponsor: Jack Donahue
Provides relative to riverboat gaming. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Ronnie Johns
Repeals provision for recusal for members of the Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans and changes provisions permitting certain persons to serve on the board. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Karen Peterson
Clarifies that both volunteer and paid security guards may serve churches or houses of worship and provides for tactical training requirements for certain concealed handgun permittees. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Neil Riser
Provides relative to physician assistants. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Eric LaFleur
Provides relative to persons found not guilty by reason of insanity. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Mack White
Provides relative to the prohibition on public funding for entities that perform abortions (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: Frank Hoffmann
Provides relative to court costs for small successions. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Eddie Lambert
Provides penalties for reckless operation of certain all-terrain vehicles on public roadways. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Creates a commission to study the feasibility of consolidating the Washington Parish and Bogalusa City school systems. (gov sig) (EN NO IMPACT LF See Note)
Sponsor: Beth Mizell
Provides public defenders the option to enter the parish government's health care system (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Katrina Jackson-Andrews
Provides relative to terms of the members of the board of commissioners of mosquito abatement districts. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Dale Erdey
Authorizes the transfer of certain state property in Tangipahoa Parish and also certain property in St. Martin Parish. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Mack White
Provides for recall election petitions. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Michael Walsworth
Provides relative to school choice
Sponsor: Nancy Landry
Provides for coverage for subsequent preventive tests for certain individuals diagnosed with breast cancer
Sponsor: Julie Stokes
Provides relative to the enforcement of a regulation, decision, or order of the Board of Ethics. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Jonathan Perry
Provides relative to the functions of jury commissions in Caldwell Parish. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Neil Riser
Provides an exception to certain provisions of the ethics code to allow a licensed physician to perform the duties of certain positions at the Louisiana Department of Health and to practice medicine outside of the performance of such duties
Sponsor: Dustin Miller
Relative to possession limits of filleted red drum, spotted sea trout, or Southern flounder on board a vessel while on the water
Sponsor: Jerome Zeringue
Urges and requests the Louisiana Department of Health and other parties to study jointly the language in the Louisiana Code of Criminal Procedure Article 648
Sponsor: Katrina Jackson-Andrews
Provides relative to the collection of comprehensive information concerning an individual who suffered a violent death
Sponsor: Edward James
Expresses sincere and heartfelt condolences upon the death of Dr. Raphael Alvin Baranco
Sponsor: Terry Landry
Provides for the ancillary expenses of state government
Sponsor: Cameron Henry
Requests the attorney general to file an amicus brief in federal court to support Mississippi in that state's litigation to ban elective abortions after fifteen weeks gestation
Sponsor: Rick Edmonds
Provides for a hospital stabilization formula (EN +$69,495,364 SD RV See Note)
Sponsor: Taylor Barras
Reduces the expenditure limit for FY 2018-2019 (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Taylor Barras
Creates the Emergency Medical Services Professional Working Group to study and make recommendations to the legislature concerning matters relating to licensure and regulation of emergency medical personnel
Sponsor: Dustin Miller
Memorializes congress to ensure that Tricare adequately covers behavioral therapies for military dependents
Sponsor: James Armes
Urges and requests the Department of Transportation and Development to make improvements to the appearance of state entry points on interstate highways
Sponsor: Stephen Carter
Provides for Revenue Sharing Distribution for Fiscal Year 2018-2019
Sponsor: Cameron Henry
Creates the Children's Savings Accounts Task Force to study and make recommendations relative to establishing a children's savings account program in La.
Sponsor: Walt Leger
Recognizes the potential value for local law enforcement agencies of an independent police monitor
Sponsor: Marcus Hunter
Memorializes the U.S. Congress to adopt legislation to establish the "Caddo Lake National Heritage Area"
Sponsor: James Morris
Provides for changes to the election dates for certain Lawrason Act municipalities
Sponsor: Robert Carter
Provides procedure for expulsion of members of the Louisiana Public Defender Board for unexcused absences at board meetings. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Dan Claitor
Provides relative to the Louisiana Cemetery Board. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Neil Riser
Provides relative to the clinical laboratory personnel committee. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Fred Mills
Provides relative to the execution of an order for protective custody and examination. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Daniel Martiny
Provides relative to "going-out-of-business sale" deposits. (7/1/18) (EN INCREASE GF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Michael Walsworth
Prohibits the publication of certain criminal information or juvenile record information. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Dan Claitor
Re-creates the Louisiana Workforce Commission and reauthorizes the Incumbent Worker Training Program. (6/30/18)
Sponsor: Neil Riser
Provides for the membership of the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans. (See Act)
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Provides relative to making a false communication that triggers an emergency response ("swatting"). (gov sig)
Sponsor: Conrad Appel
Authorizes Louisiana Property Assistance Agency to make surplus bulletproof vests available for purchase to certain part-time and reserve peace officers under the same requirements as the vests are made available to certain full-time employees. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Ronnie Johns
Provides relative to pharmacy benefit managers. (See Act) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: Fred Mills
Provides relative to child support orders. (10/1/18)
Sponsor: Jonathan Perry
Provides relative to documents submitted to the Louisiana State Fire Marshal. (8/1/18) (EN INCREASE SD EX See Note)
Sponsor: Sharon Hewitt
Provides for the award of attorney fees to a person making a public records request when the person prevails or prevails in part in a suit instituted by a public body or official
Sponsor: Raymond Garofalo
Relative to Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana membership. (6/30/18) (EN NO IMPACT APV)
Sponsor: Barrow Peacock
Extends legislative authority for the Louisiana Behavior Analyst Board. (7/1/18) (EG NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Prohibits a health insurance issuer from denying a nonopioid prescription in favor of an opioid prescription. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Gary Smith
Provides relative to the State Boxing and Wrestling Commission. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Patrick Cortez
Provides for survivor benefits. (6/30/18) (EN NO IMPACT APV)
Sponsor: Barrow Peacock
Provides for certain eligible rollover distributions. (6/30/18) (EN NO IMPACT APV)
Sponsor: Barrow Peacock
Creates the "Scotlandville Magnet High School" special prestige license plate. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Provides relative to a defamation claim brought by an alleged perpetrator of sexual misconduct against the alleged victim. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Creates the Louisiana Sexual Assault Oversight Commission. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Provides relative to the sale of excess immovable property by the Department of Transportation and Development. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)
Sponsor: Mack White
Provides immunity from liability for person providing gratuitous emergency care to a minor or domestic animal. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Troy Carter
Authorizes the legislative auditor to obtain certain information about employees with access to federal tax records of auditees. (gov sig) (EN NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Michael Walsworth
Provides for the distribution of certain contractor fees to each accredited public university's and community college's school of construction management or construction technology. (8/1/18) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV See Note)
Sponsor: Mack White
Provides relative to the use of purple paint in lieu of "no trespassing" signs. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Patrick Cortez
Provides for Rural Grant Opportunity Program in the Statewide Flood Control Program. (8/1/18) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)
Sponsor: Patrick Cortez
Corrects language regarding average final compensation. (6/30/18) (EN INCREASE APV)
Sponsor: Barrow Peacock
Provides for family member visitation with offenders who have sustained serious injuries while in custody. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Provides relative to visitation rights of grandparents and siblings. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Rick Ward
Provides for a special prestige license plate to bear the international symbol of accessibility and one for "Upside Downs". (1/1/19) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX See Note)
Sponsor: Beth Mizell
Provides for the modification of support orders when the Department of Children and Family Services is providing support enforcement services. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Yvonne Dorsey-Colomb
Authorizes the Department of Transportation and Development to rent or lease equipment. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Ryan Gatti
Re-creates entities transferred to or placed within the office of the governor. (6/30/18) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: Daniel Martiny
Provides relative to seed testing and labeling. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Francis Thompson
Re-creates the Department of State Civil Service and the statutory entities made a part of the department by law. (6/30/18)
Sponsor: Karen Peterson
Provides relative to incarcerated women. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Requires school governing authorities to provide parents with certain information relative to the health risks associated with pornography. (8/1/18) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Beth Mizell
Provides relative to permissible warrantless searches of the residences of defendants on probation or parole. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Beth Mizell
Provides relative to the protection of computerized data that contains personal information and requires notification of data breaches. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Michael Walsworth
Provides relative to the transfer of firearms for the violation of a protective order. (10/1/18)
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Provides relative to the creation of a volunteer and employee criminal history system. (1/1/19)
Sponsor: Beth Mizell
Creates the Technology Strategy Task Force. (See Act) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Conrad Appel
Allows political subdivisions to perform integrated coastal projects through outcome-based contracting
Sponsor: Jerome Zeringue
Provides for nullification of nondisclosure agreements to conceal criminal activity. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Provides relative to Assistive Outpatient Treatment. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Requires the National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline information to be posted in additional locations. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Francis Thompson
Provides relative to collection of certain disallowed tax benefits from taxpayers. (8/1/18) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Troy Carter
Provides relative to the duration of a disposition on a felony-grade adjudication. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Provides relative to the state uniform construction code and the powers of the state fire marshal. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: James Fannin
Provides relative to joint custody decrees and implementation orders during a declared disaster. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Commends St. Thomas More High School on winning the state lacrosse championship.
Sponsor: Jonathan Perry
Requests the La. Department of Health to study the scheduling of Mitragyna speciosa (kratom) as a controlled dangerous substance
Sponsor: Frank Hoffmann
Authorizes and directs the legislative fiscal office to determine the cost of all studies requested by the legislature during a specified time period
Sponsor: Steve Pylant
Commends Bailor Wells for winning Google's art contest top prize in Louisiana.
Sponsor: Jack Donahue
Creates a task force to study workplace violence and employee injuries at Pinecrest Supports and Services Center.
Sponsor: W. Jay Luneau
Recognizes Preston Sharp for his patriotism and welcomes his visit to Louisiana.
Sponsor: Barrow Peacock
Creates a task force to study issues related to sewerage, water, and drainage in the city of New Orleans
Sponsor: Stephanie Hilferty
Expresses condolences upon the death of James Byrd, former Alexandria city marshal.
Sponsor: W. Jay Luneau
Commends the Bossier Parish Community College Lady Cavaliers softball team.
Sponsor: Barrow Peacock
Requests that the La. State Law Institute study and provide recommendations regarding the presumed release of a person on unsecured personal surety or bail without surety
Sponsor: Edmond Jordan
Provides for an independent review process in Medicaid managed care program for dental services claims (RE INCREASE SG EX See Note)
Sponsor: Tanner Magee
Commends Harry Connick Sr. for his outstanding accomplishments and singular contributions during thirty years of dedicated public service as district attorney and for his remarkable musical accomplishments.
Sponsor: Dan Claitor
Requests the State Bd. of Elementary and Secondary Education to require public school governing authorities to adopt policies to address sexual abuse by children in schools
Sponsor: Patricia Smith
Provides for the "Seymore D'Fair Foundation One Hundred Percent Me Drug Free" specialty license plate
Sponsor: Reid Falconer
Expresses support of the right to keep and bear arms
Sponsor: John Morris
Requests each public school governing authority to review and consider the results of screenings in determining whether students should be evaluated for giftedness and dyslexia programs.
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Regards a budget plan that provides funding established by a standstill budget and includes priority programs.
Sponsor: Jack Donahue
Urges and Requests the House Ways and Means and the Senate Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Committees to study alternative funding sources to fund nonstate entity projects in the capital outlay program
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Coussan
Provides requirements for community water systems with respect to customer complaints
Sponsor: Clay Schexnayder
Provides relative to requirements for escort vehicles
Sponsor: Jerry Gisclair
Creates a task force on the policies of the Recreation and Park Commission for the Parish of East Baton Rouge
Sponsor: Barbara Carpenter
Provides relative to health insurance network provider directories
Sponsor: Kirk Talbot
Recognizes May 24, 2018, as The Life of a Single Mom Day at the state capitol and commends the organization for its accomplishments
Sponsor: Rick Edmonds
Commends the United Cajun Navy and its founder, Todd Terrell, for outstanding service to the citizens of Louisiana impacted by the historic flooding of Louisiana in 2016.
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Provides for an extension of time for which to appeal the denial of a hardship license or a suspension, cancellation, or revocation of a driver's license
Sponsor: Marcus Hunter
Establishes a task force to study and make recommendations on the issue of public access on the navigable waters of the state.
Sponsor: R. Bret Allain
Commends the traditional quartet gospel group the Lighthouse Gospel Singers on their seventieth anniversary
Sponsor: Edmond Jordan
Requests the Department of Insurance to create a task force to study the penalties and attorney fees provisions in the Louisiana Insurance Code and make recommendations for simplification and clarification
Sponsor: Kirk Talbot
Requests DOE to provide information to the legislative education committees establishing the state's charter schools' compliance with the intent, purpose, and objectives established in the Charter School Demonstration Programs Law.
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Commends David Broussard for his passion and tireless dedication to ensuring government officials improve streets, intersections, and railroad crossings in New Iberia, Louisiana.
Sponsor: Fred Mills
Commends the Cyber Innovation Center and Executive Director Craig Spohn on the Regional Autonomous Robotics Circuit.
Sponsor: Ryan Gatti
Expresses support for the proposed changes to the Magnuson-Stevens Act found in the Strengthening Fishing Communities and Increasing Flexibility in Fisheries Management Act and the Modernizing Recreational Fisheries Management Act of 2017
Sponsor: Clay Schexnayder
Commends the Destination Imagination teams from the Baton Rouge Center for Visual and Performing Arts on advancement to the Destination Imagination Global Finals.
Sponsor: Dan Claitor
Provides with respect to the casino operating contract (REF +$25,000,000 GF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Taylor Barras
Commends the Metairie Park Country Day School Lady Cajuns volleyball team upon winning the 2017 Division V state championship
Sponsor: Neil Abramson
Commends the Berwick High School boys baseball team on winning the Class 3A state championship.
Sponsor: R. Bret Allain
Requests the Dept. of Education to investigate the feasibility and cost of installing silent alarms in all elementary and secondary school classrooms.
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Designates June 11-15, 2018, as Meningitis B Awareness Week.
Sponsor: Gerald Boudreaux
Requests the Louisiana Board of Barber Examiners and the Louisiana State Board of Cosmetology to work together in evaluating whether the practice of alternative hair design should be regulated by the Louisiana Board of Barber Examiners.
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Provides relative to facility disclosure requirements
Sponsor: Kirk Talbot
Provides with respect to the membership of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority Board. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Norby Chabert
Commends the Shreveport Mudbugs on winning the North American Hockey League Robertson Cup championship.
Sponsor: Barrow Peacock
Provides relative to excess immovable property not purchased at public or private sale
Sponsor: Jeff Hall
Creates a legislative task force to study sexual harassment issues regarding legislators, lobbyists, and other persons interacting with the legislature.
Sponsor: Karen Peterson
Requests the Department of Revenue to create the Louisiana Retail Food and Beverage E-Commerce Task Force.
Sponsor: Dan Morrish
Provides relative to drug paraphernalia
Sponsor: Edward James
Commends Rapides Parish for being declared the most physically fit parish in the state
Sponsor: Jeff Hall
Requests appointment of a committee to notify the governor that the legislature is ready to adjourn sine die.
Sponsor: Gerald Long
Prohibits the possession of firearms in certain cases involving stalking
Sponsor: Patricia Smith
Requests the Senate Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and International Affairs to study the licensing of commercial driving schools.
Sponsor: Beth Mizell
Requests the state Department of Education to report to the legislature regarding implementation of the recommendations made in the Alternative Education Study Group Report.
Sponsor: Troy Carter
Expresses condolences on the death of Dr. Raphael A. Baranco Sr.
Sponsor: Gerald Boudreaux
Commends Joe Delpit for his outstanding accomplishments
Sponsor: Patricia Smith
Provides relative to the issuance of an ex-offender provisional license
Sponsor: Joseph Bouie
Commends Eugene A. "Gene" Bouquet for his long, dedicated, and distinguished service on the occasion of his retirement.
Sponsor: Ronnie Johns
Provides relative to the commissioner of insurance's examination and investigation authority
Sponsor: Alan Seabaugh
Commends Ruth Shirley Heidecker for 43 years of dedicated service as an educator and congratulates her on her retirement.
Sponsor: Ryan Gatti
Requests appointment of a committee to notify the House of Representatives that the Senate is ready to adjourn sine die.
Sponsor: Gerald Long
Requests the enforcement of certain littering ordinances in the city of New Orleans
Sponsor: Jimmy Harris
Provides relative to the reimbursement of healthcare providers
Sponsor: Paula Davis
Commends the Central High School Wildcats baseball team on winning its second consecutive LHSAA Class 5A state championship.
Sponsor: Mack White
Continues and provides with respect to the task force to study steps in addressing healthcare delivery from the Baton Rouge Health Services Task Force.
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Requests the Department of Revenue to streamline the process by which it determines the residency of active duty military personnel stationed in Louisiana.
Sponsor: Ryan Gatti
Requests a study of the collection and distribution of gaming revenues
Sponsor: Lawrence Bagley
Requests the Department of Transportation and Development to submit a report to the Senate Committee on Finance and the Senate Select Committee on Homeland Security on the ability of the public works and water resources division in the department to receive and distribute federal funds for flood control, hazard mitigation grant program, and other disaster funds.
Sponsor: Mack White
Relative to compensatory mitigation requirements
Sponsor: Jerome Zeringue
Expresses condolences upon the death of Roger Paul Hamilton Sr.
Sponsor: Fred Mills
Requests the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority and the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries to develop a proposal seeking Open Ocean TIG and RW TIG funds to monitor red snapper and other reef fish impacted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Sponsor: R. Bret Allain
Provides relative to the availability of auditor reports prepared or accepted by the legislative auditor
Sponsor: Gregory Miller
Provides relative to motor vehicle reports required to obtain an insurance premium quote
Sponsor: Mike Huval
Provides relative to the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Dan Claitor
Requests the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to update certification rules for behavior analysts.
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Provides relative to the administration of large deductible policies and collateral
Sponsor: Alan Seabaugh
Commends Doug Pederson, coach of the Philadelphia Eagles, on his Super Bowl LII victory.
Sponsor: Barrow Peacock
Requests evaluation of the Recreation and Park Commission for the parish of East Baton Rouge to ensure the board members are meeting required responsibilities.
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Repeals termination date of New Orleans Ferry Fund. (gov sig) (EGF SEE FISC NOTE SD RV See Note)
Sponsor: Troy Carter
Expresses condolences upon the death of Mitchell "Mike" Trahan.
Sponsor: Fred Mills
Requests the oil and gas industry in Louisiana to support the construction of the Louisiana Geological Survey Coastal Geohazards Atlas by providing access to interpretations from 3-D seismic data.
Sponsor: Sharon Hewitt
Provides relative to payment of group insurance premiums for retirees from the Jefferson Davis Parish Sheriff's Office
Sponsor: Mark Abraham
Provides for authority of courts in times of an emergency or disaster
Sponsor: Walt Leger
Expresses condolences on the death of Mattie Mae Durant Cockerham Williams
Sponsor: Kenny Cox
Requests BESE to ascertain whether all public, approved nonpublic, and charter school teachers, school counselors, principals, and other school administrators for whom suicide awareness training is deemed beneficial are in compliance with the Jason Flatt Act.
Sponsor: Ronnie Johns
Establishes the Post-Conviction Veterans Mentor Program (EN DECREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Kenny Cox
Commends the Benton High School Tigers baseball team on winning the LHSAA Class 4A state championship.
Sponsor: Ryan Gatti
Expresses sincere condolences to the family and friends of Michael "Todd" Denson on the occasion of his passing.
Sponsor: John Alario
Establishes the Louisiana Health Reinsurance Association (RR1 SEE FISC NOTE SG EX See Note)
Sponsor: Major Thibaut
Authorizes the transfer of state property in St. Martin Parish
Sponsor: Mike Huval
Requests the law enforcement agencies of Louisiana to take advantage of the Attorney General's Drug Take Back Box program to receive free receptacles for the safe disposal of opioids.
Sponsor: Fred Mills
Expresses condolences upon the death of Judge Bernard Marcantel.
Sponsor: Dan Morrish
Requests BESE to reconvene the MFP task force to determine the actual cost of providing public education in Louisiana.
Sponsor: Gerald Boudreaux
Expresses sincere condolences upon the passing of Dr. Paul Whitfield Murrill, former chancellor of LSU.
Sponsor: Dan Claitor
Provides with respect to short-term rental dwellings (EG1 INCREASE SD EX See Note)
Sponsor: Raymond Garofalo
Requests the New Orleans City Council and the New Orleans City Planning Commission to impose a ten-year moratorium on additional dollar stores being located in New Orleans East and Gentilly.
Sponsor: Wesley Bishop
Creates the "Covington High School" specialty license plate
Sponsor: Mark Wright
Requests the New Orleans City Council to adopt ordinances to prohibit loitering and the consumption of alcoholic beverages in certain public spaces
Sponsor: Jimmy Harris
Designates May 2018 as Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month in Louisiana.
Sponsor: Dan Claitor
Requests the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to explain how the minimum foundation program is calculated to ensure funding of the unfunded accrued liability.
Sponsor: Dan Morrish
To commend Jennifer Paige Spradley upon her retirement and to congratulate her for thirty-years of service in the field of education.
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Provides relative to battery of a dating partner, domestic abuse, and uniform abuse prevention orders (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Patricia Smith
Creates a commission to study the feasibility of a constitutional convention and make recommendations relative thereto. (OR INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Troy Carter
Creates and provides for the Child Protection Act Advisory Commission.
Sponsor: Ronnie Johns
Provides relative to the waiting period before performing a marriage ceremony (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: Julie Emerson
Expresses condolences upon the death of Reverend Sheldon Louis Roy.
Sponsor: Eric LaFleur
Requests the Department of Insurance to establish a task force to make recommendations for proposed legislation to address the issue of balance billing in Louisiana
Sponsor: Kirk Talbot
Provides for notice of the cancellation of an insurance policy
Sponsor: Kirk Talbot
Designates May 19 - 25, 2018, as Safe Boating Week in Louisiana.
Sponsor: Eddie Lambert
Provides relative to pharmacist communication with patients. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Expresses condolences on the death of Frank M. Stuart Sr.
Sponsor: Troy Carter
Recognizes and commends the Louisiana teams that participated in the 2018 FIRST Robotics World Championship in Houston, Texas.
Sponsor: Sharon Hewitt
Requests the Louisiana Department of Health to raise awareness about the risks posed by atrial fibrillation and stroke
Sponsor: Vincent Pierre
Commends Barbara Ann Bell Malter for thirty years of service with State Farm Insurance Company.
Sponsor: Karen Peterson
Provides for legislative approval of the MFP formula for the 2018-2019 Fiscal Year. (EN +$3,045,000 SD EX See Note)
Sponsor: Dan Morrish
Provides relative to the printing of certain constitutional provisions regarding disqualification from holding elective office that were unconstitutionally adopted
Sponsor: Gregory Miller
Provides relative to educational qualifications of applicants to the La. Board of Chiropractic Examiners
Sponsor: Joseph Stagni
Commends Kaye Broussard on her retirement after 32 years of teaching music.
Sponsor: Jonathan Perry
Recognizes the potential value for local law enforcement agencies of an independent police monitor
Sponsor: Marcus Hunter
Requests that the Orleans Parish School Board and the Recovery School District collaboratively establish a comprehensive training manual and provide for annual mandatory training for school bus operators
Sponsor: Jimmy Harris
Recognizes May 18, 2018, as CODOFIL Day at the state capitol
Sponsor: Mike Huval
Commends the citizens of Bossier Parish on the occasion of its 175th anniversary.
Sponsor: Barrow Peacock
Commends Holden High School Girls Softball Team on winning the Louisiana High School Athletic Association Class B state championship.
Sponsor: Dale Erdey
Designates May 2018 as Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month in Louisiana
Sponsor: Stephen Carter
Commends Deputy James Lonadier of Bossier Parish on being the recipient of the 2018 Deputy of the Year Award presented by the Louisiana Sheriffs' Association.
Sponsor: John Alario
Recognizes Friday, May 11, 2018, as Child Care Provider Appreciation Day in Louisiana.
Sponsor: Beth Mizell
Commends Northside Christian School girls softball team for winning the Division V State Championship title.
Sponsor: Jonathan Perry
Expresses condolences on the death of Arcadia Mayor Jesse Eugene Smith Jr.
Sponsor: Ryan Gatti
Memorializes the U.S. Congress to adopt legislation to establish the "Caddo Lake National Heritage Area"
Sponsor: James Morris
Requests the Louisiana State Law Institute to study the laws regarding adoption and adoption incentives
Sponsor: Rick Edmonds
Commends Derrell Cohoon for being honored by the Louisiana Associated General Contractors, Inc. as a Lifetime Honorary Member.
Sponsor: Conrad Appel
Commends John Bourque, Acadia Parish schools superintendent, on the occasion of his retirement.
Sponsor: Jonathan Perry
Commends the Good Samaritans who risked their lives and saved an elderly woman and three children from drowning as a result of an automobile accident on March 12, 2018, in Shreveport, Louisiana.
Sponsor: John Milkovich
Commends Major Ron Chatelain, US Army, Retired on his service.
Sponsor: Ryan Gatti
Commends the International Paper facility "Bogalusa Containerboard" Mill on its 100-year anniversary.
Sponsor: Beth Mizell
Designates Tuesday, May 8, 2018, as Teacher Appreciation Day at the state capitol.
Sponsor: Dan Morrish
Commends the two Delhi Charter School junior robotics teams on winning the VEX IQ Challenge Louisiana State Championship and advancing to the 2018 VEX World Championship.
Sponsor: Francis Thompson
Requests state professional and occupational licensing boards review and implement Louisiana law as it relates to the issuance of licenses to military families in the state.
Sponsor: Jonathan Perry
Commends TM Landry College Preparatory School, its founders, and students.
Sponsor: Gerald Boudreaux
Commends Erika McConduit for her service as president and chief executive officer of the Urban League of Louisiana.
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Commends Joanie Basso upon her retirement from the Ascension Parish public school system after 40 years of service as a teacher and librarian.
Sponsor: Edward Price
Requests that the Southern University Board of Supervisors submit a proposal to the Board of Regents for establishing an associate of applied science degree program in process technology
Sponsor: Edmond Jordan
Expresses condolences on the death of Mary A. Washington.
Sponsor: Gerald Boudreaux
Commends certain entities for their support of Louisiana's military installations and military personnel in this state.
Sponsor: Jonathan Perry
Recognizes the contributions and military service of women veterans.
Sponsor: Barrow Peacock
Commemorates March 2018 as Amyloidosis Awareness Month.
Sponsor: Dan Claitor
Designates the seventeenth day of May as Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma Awareness Day. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Barrow Peacock
Designates May 15, 2018, as Teacher of the Year in Senate District 15 and commends the Teacher of the Year from each school located in Senate District 15.
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Commends Randy Noel on his election as chairman of the Executive Board of the National Association of Home Builders.
Sponsor: Gary Smith
Commends posthumously John W. Bowman of Shreveport for his outstanding accomplishments
Sponsor: Alan Seabaugh
Expresses condolences upon the death of Zachary firefighter and reserve policeman, Chris Lawton.
Sponsor: Rick Ward
Requests the governor and BESE to work with the legislature to increase the average pay of public school teachers.
Sponsor: Dan Morrish
Creates a task force to study issues associated with the delivery of alcoholic beverages by third party companies in this state
Sponsor: Tanner Magee
Commends Erika McConduit for her accomplishments and service as president and CEO of the Urban League of Louisiana.
Sponsor: Troy Carter
Designates May 15, 2018, as Y Day in Louisiana.
Sponsor: Beth Mizell
Requests that public school governing authorities take certain actions relative to helping students avoid injury due to the use of heavy backpacks
Sponsor: Beryl Amedee
Provides relative to the transfer of surplus monies in the Fourth JDC (EN NO IMPACT LF See Note)
Sponsor: Katrina Jackson-Andrews
Requests a study of the delivery of emergency medical services.
Sponsor: Troy Carter
Requests the state Department of Education to create a committee to study and develop mechanisms and processes whereby every student is served a meal at school, regardless of ability to pay.
Sponsor: Dale Erdey
Urges and requests the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority and the Department of Natural Resources work with local political subdivisions with statutory responsibility for activities that require state coastal use permits to determine the necessity of state coastal use permits
Sponsor: Bob Hensgens
Designates Tuesday, May 8, 2018, as Hospital Day in Louisiana at the legislature.
Sponsor: Gerald Boudreaux
Commends Bishop Thelma Pearl on her eighteenth anniversary as pastor of Disciples Outreach Ministry
Sponsor: Denise Marcelle
Commends Dr. Larry J. Pannell on his retirement as band director at Grambling State University
Sponsor: Patrick Jefferson
Commends James Burton on his 2018 induction into the Louisiana Folklife Center Hall of Master Folk Artists
Sponsor: Kenny Cox
Commends Hilton Lytle on his 2018 induction into the Louisiana Folklife Center Hall of Master Folk Artists
Sponsor: Kenny Cox
Designates May 16, 2018, as LPCA Day at the legislature and commends the LPCA and the state's community health centers for their continued commitment to promoting access to high quality primary healthcare in Louisiana.
Sponsor: Fred Mills
Commends Marie Charmaine Ford on her retirement as head coach of the Northside High School volleyball team
Sponsor: Vincent Pierre
Regards a budget plan for funding established by a standstill budget and includes priority programs.
Sponsor: Jack Donahue
Creates the Louisiana Historical Archives Task Force.
Sponsor: Michael Walsworth
Commemorates the one hundredth anniversary of the International Association of Fire Fighters.
Sponsor: Rick Ward
Commends H. David Smith Jr. for his years of service and dedication to the Louisiana Board of Examiners of Nursing Facility Administrators.
Sponsor: Dan Claitor
Requests occupational and professional licensing boards and commissions to display prominently on their websites a link to licensing information for military-trained applicants and their family members.
Sponsor: Barrow Peacock
Requests the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board to establish new billing policies and procedures
Sponsor: Jimmy Harris
Expresses condolences upon the death of James A. "Jim" McInnis
Sponsor: Nicholas Muscarello
Requests the United States Department of Education to provide additional funding in accordance with the spirit of the Every Student Succeeds Act
Sponsor: Patricia Smith
Commends the members of the GU272 Descendants Association upon their family reunion on June 9, 2018
Sponsor: Ken Brass
Urges and requests the board of commissioners of the Orleans Levee District to develop and implement procedures relative to the Lakeshore Drive area of the New Orleans lakefront
Sponsor: Jimmy Harris
Memorializes Congress to encourage that the design and construction of the Vito development in the Gulf of Mexico occur in Louisiana.
Sponsor: Fred Mills
(Constitutional Amendment) Allows for the use of the Budget Stabilization Fund for the state costs associated with a declared disaster (EG SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)
Sponsor: Gary Carter
Requests the Department of Insurance to study insurer's coverage of diabetes-related medication.
Sponsor: Wesley Bishop
Requests BESE, the state Department of Education, and each local public school board to maximize the funding and availability of dual enrollment courses.
Sponsor: Michael Walsworth
Commends Clementine Hunter posthumously upon her 2018 induction into the Louisiana Folklife Center Hall of Master Folk Artists
Sponsor: Kenny Cox
Designates May 16, 2018, as Louisiana Primary Care Association Day at the state capitol and commends LPCA
Sponsor: Frank Hoffmann
Memorializes Congress to pass the Disability Integration Act of 2017.
Sponsor: Troy Carter
Provides relative to reimbursement rates set by local governing authorities for emergency medical services
Sponsor: Samuel Jenkins
Creates a task force to study the problem of trash and litter on state highways and waterways.
Sponsor: Conrad Appel
Urges and requests local governmental subdivisions to adopt ordinances to define and regulate proper shelters for animals
Sponsor: Franklin Foil
Provides relative to licensed mechanical contractors. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Neil Riser
Requests that the state Dept. of Education include school-level and system-level data in annual report of status of health and physical education in public schools and that schools and school governing authorities respond to the department's survey relative to such report
Sponsor: Barbara Norton
Requests the Louisiana Community and Technical College System to develop a pilot scholarship program for certain adults.
Sponsor: Dan Morrish
Approves the annual integrated coastal protection plan for Fiscal Year 2019, as adopted by the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority Board.
Sponsor: Norby Chabert
Requires policies prohibiting sexual harassment and annual training on preventing sexual harassment (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Barbara Carpenter
Provides for the maximum amount of fees assessed on emergency ground ambulance service providers (EN +$6,146,480 SD RV See Note)
Sponsor: Mike Huval
Provides relative to actions filed under the Protection from Stalking Act
Sponsor: Gary Carter
Requires access to records and files for certain contracts to perform governmental functions (REF SEE FISC NOTE SG EX See Note)
Sponsor: Cameron Henry
Requests the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries to update the Caney Creek Reservoir waterbody management plan on an annual basis.
Sponsor: James Fannin
Provides for authority of the Public Belt Railroad Commission. (gov sig) (REF INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Conrad Appel
Requests study of options to reduce traffic congestion in the Baton Rouge area.
Sponsor: Dale Erdey
Designates the week of May 20-26, 2018, as Emergency Medical Services Week
Sponsor: Frank Hoffmann
Commends Rodney Harrington on his 2018 induction into the Louisiana Folklife Center Hall of Master Folk Artists
Sponsor: Kenny Cox
Commends the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana for its many contributions to the state
Sponsor: Robert Johnson
Requests the La. Department of Health to require all Medicaid managed care plans to participate in the quality incentive program
Sponsor: Lawrence Bagley
Commends and expresses appreciation to the Honorable Gregory Cromer for his outstanding legislative service and recognizes his contributions to his district and the state
Sponsor: Taylor Barras
Designates November as Veterans Month in the state of Louisiana.
Sponsor: Gerald Boudreaux
Commends Jim Oertling on his 2018 induction into the Louisiana Folklife Center Hall of Master Folk Artists
Sponsor: Kenny Cox
Commends Ouachita Parish Corporal Craig Meredith, recipient of the 2018 Deputy Valor Award
Sponsor: Taylor Barras
Commends Corporal Craig Meredith of the Ouachita Parish Sheriff's Office on being the recipient of the 2018 Deputy Valor Award presented by the Louisiana Sheriffs' Association.
Sponsor: John Alario
Commends the Scotlandville High School Hornets Alumni Association, Inc., on its fourth annual Scotlandville High School Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony and Banquet
Sponsor: Barbara Carpenter
Commends the Loreauville High School boys' baseball team on winning the 2018 LHSAA Class 2A state championship
Sponsor: Taylor Barras
Commends Bossier Parish Deputy James Lonadier, recipient of the 2018 Deputy of the Year Award
Sponsor: Taylor Barras
Designates the week of May 14-20, 2018, as Police Week in Louisiana and commends the service of law enforcement officers and law enforcement agencies.
Sponsor: Mack White
Commends the Doyle High School girls softball team upon winning the 2018 LHSAA Class 2A championship.
Sponsor: Dale Erdey
Commends Marie Charmaine Ford, head coach of the Northside High School Mighty Vikings volleyball team, on her retirement.
Sponsor: Gerald Boudreaux
Designates May 16, 2018, as National Multiple Sclerosis Society Louisiana State Action Day at the state capitol
Sponsor: Julie Stokes
Recognizes May 16, 2018, as Louisiana Housing Council Day at the legislature and commends the Louisiana Housing Council for its accomplishments
Sponsor: Jeff Hall
Expresses condolences upon the death of Corbet "Jimmy" Domingues.
Sponsor: Jonathan Perry
Commends the Notre Dame High School Lady Pioneers softball team on winning the LHSAA Division III state championship.
Sponsor: Jonathan Perry
Commends Margaret "Peggy" Joyce Broussard on the occasion of her retirement.
Sponsor: Gerald Boudreaux
Commends the Zachary High School Broncos football team upon their championship.
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Commends and congratulates The Life of a Single Mom for its many accomplishments and to declare May 24, 2018, The Life of a Single Mom Day in Louisiana.
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Commends the Winn Parish 4-H Club for its many accomplishments.
Sponsor: Gerald Long
Establishes a workforce training pilot initiative to serve public assistance recipients in certain regions (EN SEE FISC NOTE See Note)
Sponsor: Katrina Jackson-Andrews
Commends Estelle Brown on her 2018 induction into the Louisiana Folklife Center Hall of Master Folk Artists
Sponsor: Kenny Cox
Commends the Reverend Lonnie Hamilton, Jr., on his retirement after thirty-eight years of pastoral service at New Boggy Baptist Church
Sponsor: Barbara Norton
Requests the study of possible uses for the money recovered from the opioid lawsuit.
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Requests the state Department of Education to require each local public school board that maintains a website to publish certain information on the website.
Sponsor: Wesley Bishop
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Baton Rouge Graduate Nurses Association, currently named the Baton Rouge District Nurses Association.
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Commends the LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Dentistry on its fiftieth anniversary.
Sponsor: Wesley Bishop
Commends the DeRidder High School girls' softball team on winning the 2018 LHSAA Division 4A state championship.
Sponsor: John Smith
Commends Eugene "Gene" Bouquet on his retirement
Sponsor: Michael Danahay
Provides relative to community-based sentencing alternatives for offenses committed by primary caretakers (RE1 SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Patricia Smith
Enacts the Safety Net Hospital Preservation Act (EG INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Cedric Glover
Requests public school governing authorities to review student screening results to determine if students should be evaluated for giftedness and dyslexia and to implement universal screening for students for dyslexia and giftedness
Sponsor: Julie Emerson
Provides for an exception to the crime of political payroll padding by a sheriff
Sponsor: Raymond Crews
Provides relative to the Iberia Economic Development Authority
Sponsor: Taylor Barras
Creates annual permits for ready-mix concrete trucks
Sponsor: Paula Davis
Urges certain healthcare providers to disseminate information to patients concerning bone marrow donations
Sponsor: Frank Hoffmann
Provides relative to administrative hearings involving actions of the commissioner of insurance
Sponsor: Edmond Jordan
Provides relative to the Commission of Weights and Measures
Sponsor: Clay Schexnayder
Provides relative to private actions with respect to the Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Law
Sponsor: Franklin Foil
Re-creates the Department of Transportation and Development. (6/30/18)
Sponsor: Patrick Cortez
Directs the Louisiana State Law Institute to study and make recommendations relative to electronic notarial acts
Sponsor: Raymond Garofalo
Provides for a proposition election to authorize fantasy sports contests in Louisiana (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX See Note)
Sponsor: Kirk Talbot
Amends the definition of operations in the Louisiana Oil Well Lien Act. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Ronnie Johns
Provides for insurance coverage for hearing aids. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Yvonne Dorsey-Colomb
Provides for the creation of a municipal consortium
Sponsor: Sam Jones
Provides relative to exemptions for farm vehicles on public highways. (8/1/18) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: R. Bret Allain
Provides for the payment of expenses incurred in the disposition of paupers arranged by coroners. (8/1/18) (EN NO IMPACT LF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Dan Claitor
Prohibits the commissioner of conservation from regulating the hours of operation of certain facilities receiving exploration and production waste
Sponsor: Stuart Bishop
Provides for the rights of certain crime victims
Sponsor: Polly Thomas
Provides relative to the removal of school bus operators. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Conrad Appel
Requires school crisis management and response plans to provide for parental notification in the event of a shooting or other violent incident or emergency situation
Sponsor: Edmond Jordan
Provides relative to the Indian Child Welfare Act (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: Robert Johnson
Provides for access to funds in a securities account prior to naming of an executor
Sponsor: Kevin Pearson
Requires that all softball and baseball dugouts used for high school interscholastic athletics be enclosed. (8/1/18) (EG INCREASE LF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Jonathan Perry
Makes technical corrections to various provisions of law within the purview of the legislative committees on health and welfare
Sponsor: Bob Hensgens
Creates the Advisory Council on Historically Black Colleges and Universities. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Wesley Bishop
Provides relative to access to certain information for purposes of child support enforcement
Sponsor: Tanner Magee
Provides relative to the insurance fraud investigation unit within the Department of Public Safety and Corrections. (7/1/18)
Sponsor: Dan Morrish
Provides relative to the setting of the fee for the Motor Fuels Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Michael Walsworth
Requires the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority Board to meet at a location with internet audio and video streaming capability when votes are scheduled to occur. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Norby Chabert
Provides relative to notarial examinations by secretary of state. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV See Note)
Sponsor: Rick Ward
Requests the Department of Public Safety and Corrections and the Louisiana Sheriffs' Association to ensure that video phones are available in all state and parish facilities
Sponsor: Patricia Smith
Provides for the qualification for survivor benefits. (2/3 - CA10s29(F)) (gov sig) (EN INCREASE APV)
Sponsor: Barrow Peacock
Urges and requests the Department of Agriculture and Forestry to study the feasibility of creating a lumber grading training program
Sponsor: Dorothy Hill
Provides relative to court-appointed special advocates (EN NO IMPACT LF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Jerry Gisclair
Enacts the Adoption Option Act providing for information on adoption to be conveyed pursuant to the Woman's Right To Know law
Sponsor: Rick Edmonds
Provides relative to parental drug testing before allowing a foster child to return to the home. (gov sig) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: Ryan Gatti
Provides relative to post-abortion interment or cremation of human remains
Sponsor: Frank Hoffmann
Provides relative to fees and costs of the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans (EN NO IMPACT LF See Note)
Sponsor: Neil Abramson
Provides for a ten-year renewable period for issuance cost of hang tags for persons with mobility impairments. (8/1/18) (EN +$275,216 SG RV See Note)
Sponsor: Yvonne Dorsey-Colomb
Provides for the repayment of refunded contributions by a member of the Registrars of Voters Employees' Retirement System (EN INCREASE APV)
Sponsor: Barbara Carpenter
Recognizes May 11, 2018, as Child Care Provider Appreciation Day in the state
Sponsor: Patricia Smith
Provides relative to the duties of the registrar of voters relative to requests for copies of records of the registrar
Sponsor: Rick Edmonds
Provides with respect to group purchasing of materials, equipment, and supplies (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Jeff Hall
Authorizes the office of unemployment insurance administration to send an overpayment notice electronically or by first class mail
Sponsor: Patrick Jefferson
Provides for an expedited licensing process and associated fees for facilities and providers licensed by the La. Department of Health (EN INCREASE SG EX See Note)
Sponsor: Walt Leger
Authorizes the coroner to obtain blood, urine, or other biological fluids or samples relevant to an investigation. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Dan Claitor
Creates a pretrial diversion program for veterans diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Gerald Boudreaux
Creates the Delachaise Security and Improvement District in Orleans Parish
Sponsor: Walt Leger
Provides relative to vehicle platooning
Sponsor: Kenneth Havard
Provides relative to controlled dangerous substances on the premises of alcoholic beverage outlets
Sponsor: Walt Leger
Provides relative to the placement of children in the custody of the Dept. of Children and Family Services
Sponsor: Dodie Horton
Authorizes the governing authority of certain parishes to appoint members to a hospital service district. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Francis Thompson
Provides relative to protected persons who are allowed to record statements in criminal proceedings
Sponsor: Reid Falconer
Authorizes a local taxing authority to enter into advance payment agreements with certain property owners for payment of ad valorem taxes (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Kenneth Havard
Exempts the Comite River from certain provisions of the Louisiana Scenic Rivers Act for a set period of time. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Mack White
Creates the crime of abuse of persons with infirmities through electronic means and provides for criminal penalties and exceptions (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Sherman Mack
Provides relative to social work practice. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Fred Mills
Provides relative to the membership of the Poverty Point Reservoir District Board of Commissioners. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Francis Thompson
Re-creates the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness. (6/30/18)
Sponsor: Mack White
Changes references to "at-risk" students to students who are "economically disadvantaged" throughout Title 17 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Patricia Smith
Provides relative to the St. Tammany Parish Hospital Service District No. 2. (8/1/18) (EN INCREASE LF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Sharon Hewitt
Provides for a neonatal opiate withdrawal syndrome pilot project to improve outcomes associated with neonatal abstinence syndrome
Sponsor: Walt Leger
Provides for an exemption to the Louisiana Weights and Measures Law. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Neil Riser
Requires public school governing authorities to share certain student data with the Board of Regents. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Conrad Appel
Provides for a special prestige license plate for "Autism" and one for the Louisiana Motor Transport Association. (1/1/19)
Sponsor: Ronnie Johns
Creates the Louisiana Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Walt Leger
Provides relative to deposited funds payable to a surviving spouse
Sponsor: Rick Edmonds
Provides relative to veterinarians. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Fred Mills
Creates a commission to study the feasibility of consolidating the Washington Parish and Bogalusa school systems (EN NO IMPACT LF See Note)
Sponsor: Malinda White
Requires the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority Board to develop a coastal master plan, at a minimum every six years. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Norby Chabert
Provides relative to the John J. Hainkel, Jr. Home and Rehabilitation Center (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: Neil Abramson
Requires schools to provide information relative to influenza and immunization against the influenza virus (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Paula Davis
Provides relative to the Louisiana Economic Development Corporation
Sponsor: Patrick Jefferson
Provides for determination of credits to be made to the experience account. (2/3 - CA10s29(F)) (6/30/18) (EN INCREASE APV)
Sponsor: Barrow Peacock
Authorizes the secretary of the Department of Revenue to disclose certain taxpayer information to the state treasurer (EN NO IMPACT GF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Neil Abramson
Provides with respect to the use of a wireless telecommunications device while operating a motor vehicle
Sponsor: Mike Huval
Designates a portion of LA 377 as the "Sgt. S. E. Howell, Jr. Memorial Highway". (gov sig)
Sponsor: Dan Morrish
Provides relative to the placement of voting machines during early voting and on election day
Sponsor: Gregory Miller
Provides relative to theft of goods from a merchant
Sponsor: John Stefanski
Provides relative to ex officio notaries for coroners
Sponsor: Cameron Henry
Provides for a magistrate judge in the 14th JDC (RE INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Stephen Dwight
Designates LA Highway 3170 in Rapides Parish as the "Cecil R. Blair Memorial Highway". (8/1/18)
Sponsor: W. Jay Luneau
Provides relative to personal injury claims against the state
Sponsor: Franklin Foil
Provides for the reporting of certain court orders to be included in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System database
Sponsor: Kirk Talbot
Includes charter fishing guides in the certification program as earning more than half of their income from charter fishing guide activities (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: Jerome Zeringue
Provides with respect to attorney fees and costs in domestic abuse cases
Sponsor: Malinda White
Provides relative to a defendant's motion for a speedy trial and the period of time within which trial is required to commence
Sponsor: Stephen Dwight
Provides relative to the definition of a "governmental function". (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Gary Smith
Provides relative to taking judicial notice of statutes
Sponsor: Michael Danahay
Provides for firefighters at state agencies to be members of the hazardous duty plan. (6/30/18) (EN INCREASE APV)
Sponsor: Barrow Peacock
Provides relative to the regulation of fireworks and pyrotechnics (EN INCREASE SG RV See Note)
Sponsor: Sherman Mack
Provides relative to foods and beverages, other than school breakfast or lunch, offered in public schools
Sponsor: Stephanie Hilferty
Authorizes the regulation or prohibition of boat traffic in certain circumstances
Sponsor: John Morris
Provides for benefits for survivors of hazardous duty plan members killed by an intentional act of violence. (2/3 - CA 10s29(F)) (gov sig) (EN INCREASE APV)
Sponsor: Barrow Peacock
Provides relative to the membership of the Juvenile Justice Reform Act Implementation Commission
Sponsor: Joseph Bouie
Provides relative to costs for filing a legislative continuance or extension
Sponsor: Marcus Hunter
Prohibits credit reporting agencies from charging a fee to place, reinstate, temporarily lift, or revoke a security freeze. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Sharon Hewitt
Provides relative to Louisiana Clerks' Remote Access Authority membership (EN INCREASE SG RV See Note)
Sponsor: Katrina Jackson-Andrews
Provides relative to the Louisiana Commission on HIV, AIDS, and Hepatitis C
Sponsor: Patricia Smith
Provides relative to Gravity Drainage Districts in Calcasieu Parish
Sponsor: Dorothy Hill
Provides for blue lights on licensed ambulances. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: W. Jay Luneau
Repeals the sunset on assessments levied by the Louisiana Rice Research Board
Sponsor: Bernard LeBas
Requires third-party logistics providers to obtain controlled dangerous substance licenses (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV See Note)
Sponsor: Patrick Connick
Requests a study of cost-effective means by which to facilitate emergency access to epinephrine at public places
Sponsor: Beryl Amedee
Corrects statutory references remaining from the transfer of the state land office to the division of administration. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Norby Chabert
Provides relative to the illegal carrying of certain knives
Sponsor: Mark Wright
Provides relative to definitions used for the prescription monitoring program. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Ronnie Johns
Designates a portion of Louisiana Highway 117 as the "Caroline Dormon Memorial Highway". (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Gerald Long
Requires instruction in personal financial management in public elementary and secondary schools. (8/1/18) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Francis Thompson
Provides for harmonization of federal and state law regarding creditable service for military time at La. retirement systems. (gov sig) (EN NO IMPACT APV)
Sponsor: Barrow Peacock
Provides relative to child welfare information. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Permits the employment of a convicted felon in the business of insurance in certain circumstances
Sponsor: John Anders
Provides that a member of the Louisiana City Court Judges Association be added to the membership of the Louisiana State Law Institute. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Jonathan Perry
Designates the interchange of I-49 Exit 11 and Louisiana Highway 93 near Sunset and Grand Coteau in St. Landry Parish as the "Armand J. Brinkhaus Memorial Interchange". (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Gerald Boudreaux
Urges and requests the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries to authorize increased hunting opportunities of feral hogs on Wildlife Management Areas
Sponsor: Sherman Mack
Provides relative to elections of alcoholic beverages propositions
Sponsor: Robert Shadoin
Designates a portion of Louisiana Highway 175 as the "SSG Richard Lee Vazquez Memorial Highway" (EN +$1,100 SD EX See Note)
Sponsor: Kenny Cox
Reduces criminal penalties for certain offenses involving legend drugs
Sponsor: Joseph Marino
Provides relative to recall elections (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Paul Hollis
Provides relative to payment of processing fee for certain garnishment proceedings (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: Tony Bacala
Commends the Doyle High School girls' softball team on winning the 2018 LHSAA Class 2A state championship
Sponsor: Sherman Mack
Commends Susan G. Komen Louisiana Affiliates and recognizes May 24, 2018, as Susan G. Komen Day at the state capitol
Sponsor: Julie Stokes
Provides relative to consumer loans. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV See Note)
Sponsor: Francis Thompson
Provides relative to records of port economic development negotiations
Sponsor: Gregory Miller
Creates the "Capitol High School" special prestige license plate
Sponsor: Denise Marcelle
Provides relative to funding for university laboratory schools (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Coussan
Provides relative to the classified fire service in the city of Shreveport
Sponsor: Samuel Jenkins
Institutes a permanent moratorium on oyster fishing in Sabine Lake. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Dan Morrish
Designates a portion of Interstate 20 in Bossier Parish as the "Louisiana State Trooper Huey P. Grace Memorial Highway". (8/1/18) (EN +$3,360 SG EX See Note)
Sponsor: Ryan Gatti
Authorizes certain projects to be undertaken by state agencies outside of the capital outlay process, and increases the amount exempt from professional service rules for contracts related to these activities. (gov sig) (RE1 INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Yvonne Dorsey-Colomb
Provides for the optional selection of payment of survivor benefits for a surviving spouse of a member of the Municipal Employees' Retirement System of Louisiana (EN NO IMPACT APV)
Sponsor: Kevin Pearson
Provides relative to the signs displayed at the point of purchase of any tobacco, alternative nicotine, or vapor product
Sponsor: Frank Hoffmann
Provides relative to the disposition of abandoned crab traps
Sponsor: Raymond Garofalo
Commends the Holden High School girls' softball team on winning the 2018 LHSAA Class B state championship
Sponsor: Sherman Mack
Provides relative to licensed practical nurses. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Francis Thompson
Creates the Sanitary Sewer Systems Overflows Commission
Sponsor: Paul Hollis
Provides relative to procurement of port-related specialized cranes and replacement parts
Sponsor: Walt Leger
Prohibits tying or tethering a dog or cat in extreme weather conditions. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Troy Carter
Provides for direct payment of state and local sales tax due on purchases by certain nonprofit subsidiaries. (7/1/18) (EN NO IMPACT GF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Conrad Appel
Provides for the sale of timber by the state land office. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Norby Chabert
Provides relative to pretrial and scheduling conferences
Sponsor: Patrick Connick
Provides relative to the attempt or conspiracy to commit violations of the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Law (EN DECREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Joseph Marino
Provides relative to acceptance by a public servant of transportation, admission, and lodging given by a third party
Sponsor: Gregory Miller
Provides relative to the membership of the Louisiana Agricultural Chemistry and Seed Commission. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Francis Thompson
Expresses condolences on the death of Melton Alfred
Sponsor: John Guinn
Provides relative to marine products. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: R. Bret Allain
Directs BESE to explain how the MFP is calculated to fund the unfunded accrued liability of state retirement systems
Sponsor: Kevin Pearson
Urges and requests the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to timely process and act on applications for projects in southwest Louisiana
Sponsor: Christopher Leopold
Designates Louisiana Highway 352 in St. Martin Parish as the "Pat Huval Memorial Highway" and the Old Abbeville Bridge crossing, the Vermilion River on Louisiana Highway 14 East (Port Street) in Abbeville as the "Vermilion Parish Veterans Memorial Bridge". (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Fred Mills
Requests the city of New Orleans to develop and implement initiatives to attract quality retail and dining establishments to certain areas of the city
Sponsor: Jimmy Harris
Extends the termination date of certain provisions authorizing a public entity to rehabilitate a levee not maintained with federal funds without public bids
Sponsor: Jerome Zeringue
Provides relative to investments by political subdivisions
Sponsor: John Berthelot
Commends municipalities for the creation of independent police monitoring divisions
Sponsor: Denise Marcelle
Recognizes December 4, 2018, as Helping Parents Heal Day
Sponsor: Reid Falconer
Provides for an increase in court costs in the 14th Judicial District Court (EN +$141,840 LF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Stephen Dwight
Provides relative to revocation of P.O.S.T. certification
Sponsor: Katrina Jackson-Andrews
Requires instruction in public high schools on prevention of shaken baby syndrome
Sponsor: Joseph Stagni
Requests the Department of Economic Development to study and report on commercial activities by state-owned companies or organizations in and subsidized by certain foreign governments and requests the state treasurer to certify that no public funds are used to support commercial activities in foreign governments
Sponsor: Beryl Amedee
Provides relative to the registration of investment adviser representatives. (1/1/19)
Sponsor: Mack White
Authorizes the governing authority of the city of Kenner to name the Kenner police complex in honor of a living person
Sponsor: Joseph Stagni
Provides for reporting of groundwater resources
Sponsor: Robert Shadoin
Requests the Department of Insurance to assemble a task force to address the high automobile insurance rates in the state
Sponsor: Kirk Talbot
Creates the Calcasieu-Cameron Navigation District and provides for its powers, duties, and functions. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Dan Morrish
Establishes the Public Access to Waterways Task Force
Sponsor: Raymond Garofalo
Provides relative to civil actions for domestic abuse. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Daniel Martiny
Provides relative to the Louisiana Military Advisory Council
Sponsor: James Armes
Provides relative to jury polling after a verdict is returned
Sponsor: Joseph Stagni
Provides relative to certain statements required to be filed by elected officials
Sponsor: Gregory Miller
Provides relative to the release of a child from the custody of DPS&C
Sponsor: Walt Leger
Repeals requirement that the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education meet quarterly in New Orleans relative to the Recovery School District
Sponsor: Gary Carter
Requires a statement and certification rather than an affidavit for certain disclosures by legislators to the ethics board relative to speeches
Sponsor: Gregory Miller
Requires students who are entering eleventh grade or who are 16 and entering any grade to provide satisfactory evidence of current immunization against meningococcal disease as a condition of school entry (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: Walt Leger
Requires DPS&C to report the number of inmates who are veterans
Sponsor: Valarie Hodges
Provides relative to costs assessed for violations of driving while intoxicated
Sponsor: Walt Leger
Provides limitations on diagnosing of the disorder commonly known as "Munchausen syndrome by proxy", and on initiation of child welfare proceedings (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)
Sponsor: Kenny Cox
Provides relative to access to prescription monitoring information. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Ronnie Johns
Provides relative to the task force on coordination of Medicaid fraud detection and prevention initiatives (EG SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Tony Bacala
Provides relative to divorce and spousal support
Sponsor: Patrick Jefferson
Provides with respect to reporting requirements for a victim of a sexually-oriented criminal offense
Sponsor: Patricia Smith
Extends the Fishermen's Gear Compensation Fund and extends payments into the Underwater Obstruction Removal Fund (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: Robert Billiot
Provides for the continuous revision of the Code of Civil Procedure
Sponsor: Raymond Garofalo
Provides for authorization to move human remains. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Michael Walsworth
Provides for the use of supervision fees paid by offenders placed on probation or parole (EN NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Walt Leger
Provides relative to denial of claims for dental services
Sponsor: George Cromer
Provides relative to tutorship
Sponsor: Franklin Foil
Provides for the repeal of the hospital prospective reimbursement methodology. (See Act) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Fred Mills
Provides for an update to terms and technical corrections
Sponsor: Patrick Jefferson
Provides relative to the regulation of professional wrestling
Sponsor: Jerome Zeringue
Provides for healthcare coverage relative to child support
Sponsor: Gregory Miller
Provides relative to waterworks districts in Jefferson Davis Parish
Sponsor: John Guinn
Expresses condolences on the death of Steven Paul Lacombe of Simmesport
Sponsor: Robert Johnson
Repeals the prohibition on issuing warning citations for violations of motor vehicle laws
Sponsor: Sherman Mack
Authorizes the governing authority of the city of Gonzales to levy a hotel occupancy tax (EN INCREASE LF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Ken Brass
Provides relative to the Disaster and Emergency Medical Services Committee of the Louisiana State Medical Society. (gov sig)
Sponsor: W. Jay Luneau
Provides relative to the qualifications of persons applying for an explosives license
Sponsor: Walt Leger
Affirms actions taken by certain legislative committees as the sovereign action of Louisiana and the Louisiana Legislature.
Sponsor: Daniel Martiny
Provides relative to bullying. (gov sig)
Sponsor: John Milkovich
Provides relative to reporting of child abuse and neglect (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: Charles Chaney
Provides relative to eligibility for reentry court for persons convicted of certain offenses
Sponsor: Joseph Marino
Creates the Efficient Government Act and provides for the Council on Efficient Government and its powers and duties (EG INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Rick Edmonds
Requests the Institute for Public Health and Justice and the Dept. of Public Safety and Corrections to study behavioral health issues in the criminal justice system
Sponsor: Walt Leger
Provides for the appointment of the membership of the House Committee on Ways and Means and the Senate Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs
Sponsor: John Morris
Provides relative to examination and licensing fees assessed by the Louisiana State Board of Cosmetology (EG +$417,000 SG RV See Note)
Sponsor: Robert Johnson
Provides for the creation of special service districts by parishes and municipalities, and for the raising of revenues by such special service districts. (gov sig) (REF NO IMPACT LF See Note)
Sponsor: Eric LaFleur
Re-creates the Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs
Sponsor: Lowell Hazel
Authorizes the La. State Board of Chiropractic Examiners to access expunged criminal history records
Sponsor: Joseph Stagni
Recognizes May 10, 2018, as Junior League Day at the state capitol and commends the organization
Sponsor: Julie Stokes
Commends Joanie Basso on her retirement from the Ascension Parish School District
Sponsor: Tony Bacala
Commends the Winnfield Middle School Beta Club
Sponsor: Jack McFarland
Requests the Louisiana High School Sports Hall of Fame committee to select Bobby Joe Douglas for induction into the Louisiana High School Sports Hall of Fame.
Sponsor: Michael Walsworth
Designates May 8, 2018, as Teacher Appreciation Day at the state capitol
Sponsor: Nancy Landry
Requests the Department of Economic Development to study and report on commercial activities by state-owned companies or organizations based in and subsidized by certain foreign governments and requests the state treasurer to certify that no public funds are used to support commercial activities in certain foreign governments
Sponsor: Beryl Amedee
Designates May 14-20, 2018, as Police Week in the state and commends the service of Law Enforcement officers and agencies
Sponsor: Valarie Hodges
Recognizes May 2018, as Lupus Awareness Month
Sponsor: Ken Brass
Commends the Louisiana Federation of Democratic Women and welcomes its members to the state capitol on May 15, 2018, in celebration of Women in Blue Day
Sponsor: Katrina Jackson-Andrews
Commends the Jeremiah Group for its work in the community
Sponsor: Rodney Lyons
Provides for a procedure to pass over controversial instruments on third reading, to be referred to as the "Berthelot Rule"
Sponsor: Lance Harris
Creates a task force to study the assessment of fees to students at public and certain nonpublic elementary and secondary schools
Sponsor: Patricia Smith
Requests that the Louisiana Community and Technical College System develop a pilot scholarship program for certain adults
Sponsor: Nancy Landry
Memorializes the United States Congress to address specific principles in its infrastructure plan
Sponsor: Edward James
Directs the Louisiana State Law Institute to study and make recommendations relative to expungement fees.
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Provides relative to the Lafourche Parish Pretrial Home Incarceration Program
Sponsor: Tanner Magee
Provides relative to group insurance premiums for retirees of the Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office
Sponsor: James Morris
Provides relative to gestational carrier contracts. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Gary Smith
Provides relative to the Louisiana Energy and Power Authority
Sponsor: Jerome Zeringue
Provides for the administration, disposition, enforcement, and adjudication of state and local taxes, fees, and receipts and for the Board of Tax Appeals. (gov sig) (EN NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Ronnie Johns
Revises certain provisions of the Safe Haven Law (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: Joseph Stagni
Provides relative to the payment of fines, fees, costs, restitution, and other monetary obligations related to an offender's conviction
Sponsor: Tanner Magee
Provides relative to the suspension of child support when a parent is incarcerated (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: Joseph Marino
Dedicates a portion of the state sales and use taxes on sales of motor vehicles for transportation projects based on a cost-benefit analysis (EG -$97,300,000 GF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Tony Bacala
Provides relative to the delays for responding to discovery requests in certain proceedings
Sponsor: Tanner Magee
Authorizes electronic delivery of insurance coverage notices (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: Kirk Talbot
Provides relative to prior convictions of the crime of operating a vehicle while intoxicated
Sponsor: Patrick Connick
Provides relative to the Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corporation Policy Take-Out Program
Sponsor: Kirk Talbot
Provides for the release of a person when the person was not brought before a judge within 72 hours of arrest
Sponsor: Stephanie Hilferty
Provides relative to the computation of time periods for seeking rehearing, reconsideration, or judicial review or appeal of administrative decisions
Sponsor: Katrina Jackson-Andrews
Provides relative to the Louisiana Sheriffs' Certification Program (EN INCREASE LF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Katrina Jackson-Andrews
Provides for venue for the prosecution of certain crimes
Sponsor: Patrick Connick
Provides relative to prohibited acts for insurers and insurance producers (EG NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: John Anders
Provides relative to DNA collection for certain offenses
Sponsor: Walt Leger
Provides for the formal ratification of the National Crime Prevention and Privacy Compact Act
Sponsor: Sherman Mack
Provides relative to the crime of illegally supplying a felon with a firearm (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Joseph Stagni
Provides relative to recall repairs of motor vehicles. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Daniel Martiny
Provides relative to an heir's interests in succession property
Sponsor: Raymond Garofalo
Adds certain substances to Schedule I and Schedule II of the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Law (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Sherman Mack
Creates a commission to study the feasibility of a constitutional convention and make recommendations relative thereto (RE INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Franklin Foil
Provides for the transfer, deposit, and use of monies among state funds. (7/1/18) (EG INCREASE GF RV See Note)
Sponsor: R. Bret Allain
Increases the fees levied by the La. Tax Commission for assessment of certain properties (EN +$120,000 SD RV See Note)
Sponsor: Julie Stokes
Provides relative to blood and saliva testing of persons who expose certain persons to serious infectious diseases (EN NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Sherman Mack
Provides relative to group insurance benefits for the office of the Acadia Parish clerk of court
Sponsor: John Stefanski
Provides relative to payment of group insurance premiums for retirees from the Cameron Parish Sheriff's Office (EN NO IMPACT LF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Mark Abraham
Provides for participation by certain entities in the Municipal Employees' Retirement System of Louisiana (EN INCREASE APV)
Sponsor: Kevin Pearson
Provides for the formula for distribution of benefit increases (EN NO IMPACT APV)
Sponsor: Paul Hollis
Provides relative to the fiduciary relationship between the Firefighters' Retirement System and its investment advisors (EN NO IMPACT APV)
Sponsor: Barry Ivey
Allows members of the Firefighters' Retirement System to allocate Deferred Retirement Option Plan funds between two separate interest bearing accounts (EN NO IMPACT APV)
Sponsor: Barry Ivey
Provides for the payment of unfunded accrued liability by employers eliminating positions covered by the Municipal Employees' Retirement System of Louisiana (EN NO IMPACT APV)
Sponsor: Kevin Pearson
Provides for the Deferred Retirement Option Plan participation period for a member of the Municipal Employees' Retirement System of Louisiana (EN NO IMPACT APV)
Sponsor: Kevin Pearson
Provides for definitions relative to rollovers of sums between the Firefighters' Retirement System and other qualified plans under the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code (EN NO IMPACT APV)
Sponsor: Barry Ivey
Provides relative to the reemployment of retirees of the Clerks' of Court Retirement and Relief Fund (EN DECREASE APV)
Sponsor: Barry Ivey
Authorizes the governing authority of Acadia Parish to employ its own attorneys to represent it generally. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Jonathan Perry
Changes the deadline for agencies which administer tax incentives to submit reports to the legislature (EN +$110,000 GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Neil Abramson
Authorizes the transfer of certain state property in St. Mary Parish. (gov sig)
Sponsor: R. Bret Allain
Prohibits a person convicted of a hate crime from possessing a firearm or carrying a concealed weapon (EGF SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Denise Marcelle
In the event of insufficient funding, provides for funding or reducing Taylor Opportunity Program for Students (TOPS) awards based on certain academic and financial criteria and eliminating payment of certain stipends (EG SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Gary Carter
Provides relative to the State Seal of Biliteracy recognizing high school graduates who meet certain academic eligibility criteria relative to language proficiency
Sponsor: Vincent Pierre
Requests the House and Governmental Affairs and Senate and Governmental Affairs committees to meet and function as a joint committee to study moving all school board elections to the gubernatorial or presidential election
Sponsor: Rick Edmonds
Delineates the boundary between state ownership and private ownership of the land adjacent to False River
Sponsor: Major Thibaut
Provides for payment of the Oilfield Site Restoration Fund fee (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD RV See Note)
Sponsor: James Morris
Provides relative to the board of commissioners of Vermilion Parish Hospital Service District No. 3
Sponsor: Bob Hensgens
Provides relative to the disposition of unused books in the Livingston Parish Library. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Dale Erdey
Requires the Board of Tax Appeals to refund certain filing fees and deposits paid relating to claims for the solar energy systems tax credit (EN -$42,900 GF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Neil Abramson
Provides for electronic notifications to board members and stockholders of banks, savings and loan associations, and savings banks
Sponsor: Raymond Garofalo
Requests the La. Department of Health to continue to study the desirability and feasibility of a potential increase in the minimum age for purchase of tobacco products to 21
Sponsor: Frank Hoffmann
Changes the due date for filing corporate franchise tax returns (EN NO IMPACT GF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Neil Abramson
Provides for the reimbursement of the cost of certain preemployment examinations, testing, or background checks (EG SEE FISC NOTE SG RV See Note)
Sponsor: Rick Edmonds
Provides relative to laws concerning abortion based on genetic abnormality
Sponsor: Rick Edmonds
Requests the La. Department of Health to continue a study on tax-related and health-related issues associated with vapor products and electronic cigarettes
Sponsor: Frank Hoffmann
Provides relative to judicial review of certain administrative decisions
Sponsor: Robert Johnson
Provides for the transfer of small deposits upon the death of an intestate depositor
Sponsor: Gregory Miller
Provides relative to the definition of institution of postsecondary education for purposes of the La. Student Tuition Assistance and Revenue Trust (START) Program (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: Edward James
Provides with respect to the designated gaming area and the conducting of gaming tournaments at live horse racing facilities (RE1 SEE FISC NOTE GF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Major Thibaut
Provides relative to reporting of child abuse and neglect in military families
Sponsor: Frank Hoffmann
Provides relative to the Louisiana Historical Records Advisory Board
Sponsor: Gary Carter
Provides relative to the Lake Bullard Neighborhood Improvement District in Orleans Parish
Sponsor: John Bagneris
Provides relative to the civil service status of employees of the Housing Authority of the City of Lafayette. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Patrick Cortez
Provides for the membership of the LaSalle Economic Development District board of commissioners
Sponsor: Terry Brown
Creates the "Glen Oaks High School" specialty license plate
Sponsor: Edmond Jordan
Provides relative to theft prevention programs
Sponsor: John Stefanski
Provides relative to the classified fire service in the city of Houma
Sponsor: Jerome Zeringue
Creates the "Brusly High School" specialty license plate
Sponsor: Edmond Jordan
Provides for calling a limited constitutional convention and preparations therefor (RE INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Neil Abramson
Creates the "Port Allen High School" specialty license plate
Sponsor: Edmond Jordan
Provides for the oilfield site restoration program (EN +$4,500,000 SD RV See Note)
Sponsor: James Morris
Provides relative to the Bail Bond Apprentice Program (EG NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: Vincent Pierre
Requests the Louisiana State University Center for Energy Studies, Louisiana State University Public Administration Institute, and the Louisiana Tax Institute to analyze mineral revenues, taxes, and exemptions and to submit a written report of its findings to the legislature. (EG NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: R. Bret Allain
Creates the "Neville High School" specialty license plate
Sponsor: Katrina Jackson-Andrews
Provides possession limits of certain species of fish caught in saltwater areas of the state. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Eddie Lambert
Requests a study regarding the feasibility of merging the Board of Barber Examiners and the Louisiana State Board of Cosmetology
Sponsor: Patrick Connick
Re-creates the Department of Environmental Quality. (6/30/18)
Sponsor: Michael Walsworth
Re-creates the Department of Economic Development. (6/30/18)
Sponsor: Daniel Martiny
Authorizes the governing authority of the city of Scott to levy an additional one percent sales tax, subject to voter approval. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Jonathan Perry
Re-creates the Department of Public Service
Sponsor: Thomas Carmody
Provides relative to the compensation of the commissioners of the Evangeline Parish Waterworks District No. 1 (EN +$3,840 LF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Bernard LeBas
Provides for the transfer of certain state property in Webster Parish. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Ryan Gatti
Authorizes the commissioner of conservation to certify to the U.S. Department of Transportation his regulatory authority over underground natural gas storage facilities
Sponsor: Stuart Bishop
Authorizes the La. Board of Pharmacy to waive license and certification renewal fees for military spouses
Sponsor: Bernard LeBas
Provides relative to the board of commissioners of Vermilion Parish Hospital Service District No. 2 (EN INCREASE LF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Bob Hensgens
Authorizes the commissioner of administration to transfer certain state property in Webster Parish. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Ryan Gatti
Changes requirements for newspaper advertisement of a public notice for a hearing concerning an increase in a property tax without voter approval (EN NO IMPACT LF See Note)
Sponsor: Stuart Bishop
Provides relative to reapplication for a producer license subsequent to revocation
Sponsor: John Anders
Names the baseball operational center at Southern University in Baton Rouge in honor of Roger Cador (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: Barbara Carpenter
Authorizes coastal restoration and protection projects as compensatory wetlands mitigation
Sponsor: Jerry Gisclair
(Constitutional Amendment) Provides relative to the holding of public office and public employment
Sponsor: Katrina Jackson-Andrews
Provides for the transfer of certain witness fee surplus funds within Lafourche Parish
Sponsor: Jerome Zeringue
Creates the "Louisiana Aviator" special prestige license plate
Sponsor: Chad Brown
Provides for the licensing of acupuncturists
Sponsor: Walt Leger
Creates the crimes of theft of livestock and theft of timber
Sponsor: Katrina Jackson-Andrews
Revises the definition of "approved college of pharmacy" as used in the Louisiana Pharmacy Practice Act
Sponsor: Bernard LeBas
Requires the office of vital records to share data regarding veterans (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: Gary Carter
Provides relative to the use of terror-free index funds by the state and statewide retirement systems (EN NO IMPACT APV)
Sponsor: Kevin Pearson
Authorizes the imposition of certain civil monetary penalties and fees relative to violations of administrative rule
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Coussan
Extends the additional saltwater fishing fee dedicated to the LACREEL program (EN INCREASE SD RV See Note)
Sponsor: Stuart Bishop
Provides relative to the filing of certain federal covered securities
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Coussan
Provides relative to disclosure of certain vital records to organ procurement organizations
Sponsor: Walt Leger
Increases the ceiling on penalties for pipeline safety violations (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD RV See Note)
Sponsor: James Morris
Provides relative to the membership of the St. Landry Parish Fire District No. 7 board of commissioners
Sponsor: Dustin Miller
Provides relative to qualifications of the chief of police for the town of Gueydan. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Jonathan Perry
Provides relative to the licensing of third party administrators
Sponsor: Vincent Pierre
Provides relative to inspections of life safety systems and equipment
Sponsor: Rick Edmonds
Provides relative to the secretary for the municipal fire and police civil service board in certain municipalities
Sponsor: Cedric Glover
Provides relative to prescriptions for controlled dangerous substances. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Fred Mills
Provides relative to licensing requirements for pharmacists. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Fred Mills
Authorizes individuals to indicate that part of their refund go to the La. Coalition Against Domestic Violence for education of women who are victims of domestic violence. (8/1/18) (EN NO IMPACT GF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Beth Mizell
Authorizes an insured to opt in to receive a claim payment by electronic transfer. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: John Smith
Commends posthumously Sergeant John Ray of Gretna, Louisiana
Sponsor: Raymond Garofalo
Provides for the definitions of minor child and disability relative to the Municipal Employees' Retirement System of Louisiana (EN DECREASE APV)
Sponsor: Kevin Pearson
Provides for a public records exception for certain records of the State Board of Architectural Examiners concerning the fitness of a person to receive or hold a license or certificate of registration to practice architecture
Sponsor: Reid Falconer
Authorizes the transfer of certain state property in Ascension Parish. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Eddie Lambert
Authorizes DeSoto Parish Fire Protection District No. 2 to levy certain service charges
Sponsor: Lawrence Bagley
Allows interpreters designated by the Speaker to be admitted to the House floor
Sponsor: John Morris
Provides relative to a voluntary nonopioid directive form. (8/1/18) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV See Note)
Sponsor: Fred Mills
Provides for changes to the Louisiana Council on the Social Status of Black Men and Boys
Sponsor: Edward James
Provides for expedited permitting in the office of conservation
Sponsor: Stephen Pugh
Provides relative to the Louisiana Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association (REF NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: Mike Huval
Provides for identification of health plan coverage type
Sponsor: John Anders
Commends James C. "Jim" Beam for providing journalistic coverage of the Louisiana Legislature for fifty years
Sponsor: Michael Danahay
Urges and requests the Department of Agriculture to study the economic impact of current and potential rules and regulations regarding forest crops
Sponsor: Jack McFarland
Commends the Baton Rouge District Nurses Association upon its one hundredth anniversary
Sponsor: Barry Ivey
Provides for the benefit payable to retired member of the Municipal Employees' Retirement System of Louisiana upon death of beneficiary (EN NO IMPACT APV)
Sponsor: Kevin Pearson
Requests a study concerning the prospective establishment of a state prescription drug importation program
Sponsor: Kirk Talbot
Creates the "Carroll High School" specialty license plate
Sponsor: Katrina Jackson-Andrews
Provides for computation of a supplemental benefit for reemployed retirees of the Municipal Employees' Retirement System of Louisiana (EN NO IMPACT APV)
Sponsor: Kevin Pearson
Creates the Native American Commission within the office of the governor
Sponsor: Tanner Magee
Provides the option of a right of direct action against the insurer alone when the insured is a small business employing fifty or fewer full-time employees. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: W. Jay Luneau
Commends the Homeland Security Investigations team of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Sponsor: Valarie Hodges
Provides relative to special permit fees (EG +$3,088,811 SD RV See Note)
Sponsor: Terry Landry
Provides a time period after payment of a claim during which an insurer may dispute and recoup the amount paid
Sponsor: Frank Howard
Designates June 4-8, 2018, as Wound Care Awareness Week in Louisiana
Sponsor: Kenny Cox
Commends the Christ Episcopal School girls' basketball team on winning the 2018 LHSAA Division V state championship in their inaugural varsity season
Sponsor: Mark Wright
Recognizes June 2018 as "Go Purple Month" for Alzheimer's awareness
Sponsor: Frank Hoffmann
Authorizes disposal of certain controlled substances by hospice providers. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Fred Mills
Prohibits the importation of live cervid
Sponsor: Eugene Reynolds
Recognizes May 15, 2018, as Y Day in Louisiana
Sponsor: Frank Hoffmann
Re-creates the Department of Education
Sponsor: Nancy Landry
Requires daily recess for public school students in grades kindergarten through eight
Sponsor: Beryl Amedee
Commends the "We the Kids" 4-H Leadership Camp in Winn Parish
Sponsor: Terry Brown
Requires retail food establishments to maintain and promote community hygiene as part of standardized business practices. (8/1/18) (RE +$75,000 SG RV See Note)
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Expresses the intent of the Louisiana Senate that only district members of the New Orleans City Council in whose district a non-flood asset is located shall appoint a member to the Non-Flood Protection Asset Management Authority.
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Requests the Dept. of Public Safety and Corrections to review eligibility requirements of its rehabilitative programs to determine whether adequate rehabilitative programs are available to every offender in its custody
Sponsor: Barbara Norton
Provides for reduction to revenues into certain statutory funds (EG SEE FISC NOTE SD RV See Note)
Sponsor: John Morris
Requests the Department of Public Safety and Corrections and other penal institutions that provide inmate training to provide access to training for inmates who are deaf and hard of hearing
Sponsor: Patricia Smith
Provides relative to the crime of unlawful restraint of a dog
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Coussan
Requests law enforcement to ensure an accused's invocation of the right to counsel is recognized.
Sponsor: Wesley Bishop
Provides relative to persons subject to the examination authority of the commissioner of insurance
Sponsor: Alan Seabaugh
Provides relative to salaries for judges as recommended by the Judicial Compensation Commission. (gov sig) (EG +$1,749,162 GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Daniel Martiny
Memorializes Congress to call a convention to propose an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that will restore elections strong in individual participation and engagement.
Sponsor: Troy Carter
Provides for a procedure to pass over controversial instruments on third reading, to be referred to as the "Bagneris Rule"
Sponsor: John Bagneris
Requests the legislative auditor to conduct an audit of the contracts of the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Patrick Connick
Increases the amount dedicated for deposit into the Unclaimed Property Leverage Fund and establishes the LA 1 Improvement Project Account with the fund (RE -$15,000,000 GF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Jerry Gisclair
Expresses condolences on the death of Mamie Wallace
Sponsor: Cedric Glover
Provides relative to Medicaid fraud detection and prevention (RE INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Tony Bacala
Allows the sheriff's offices of certain parishes to issue warning citations. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Jonathan Perry
Commends the Parkview girls' softball team on winning the 2018 LHSAA Division II state championship
Sponsor: Rick Edmonds
Requests the legislative auditor to conduct an audit of the Recreation and Park Commission for the Parish of East Baton Rouge (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)
Sponsor: Barbara Carpenter
Expresses condolences on the death of Richard G. Stewart, Sr.
Sponsor: Cedric Glover
Designates May 3, 2018, as NASA Day at the state capitol and commends NASA
Sponsor: Raymond Garofalo
Commends Mary Alice Gray Darby on her retirement from Southern University
Sponsor: Edward James
Commends posthumously former state representative Ernest Nathan "Dutch" Morial
Sponsor: Randal Gaines
Requests the Department of Children and Family Services to study the expedited process fee paid by child support obligors
Sponsor: Raymond Garofalo
Memorializes congress to pass the Disability Integration Act of 2017
Sponsor: Walt Leger
Provides relative to hospital service districts. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Fred Mills
Requests the La. Department of Health to add Severe Combined Immunodeficiency to the state's newborn screening panel
Sponsor: Franklin Foil
Requests the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority to conduct a science-based study of the adequacy of the current inland boundary of the coastal zone of Louisiana. (OR INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Norby Chabert
Authorizes business entities to assert or defend certain claims on their own behalf. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Gary Smith
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Baton Rouge Graduate Nurses Association, currently named the Baton Rouge District Nurses Association.
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Requests the state Department of Education to resume publication of the Annual Financial and Statistical Report.
Sponsor: Beth Mizell
Commends the Honorable Ernest Nathan "Dutch" Morial for being the first African American to be elected to the Louisiana State Legislature since Reconstruction.
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Commends the many accomplishments of Pennington Biomedical Research Center during its 30 years of service and expresses gratitude, posthumously, to Claude B. and Irene Pennington for their generous philanthropy.
Sponsor: Dan Claitor
Expresses condolences upon the death of Farid Bogani.
Sponsor: John Smith
Requests the state Department of Education to consider the community school model as a school reform strategy.
Sponsor: Gerald Boudreaux
Creates the TOPS Second Chance Award. (gov sig) (RE1 SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Wesley Bishop
Requests the Board of Regents to update the statewide comprehensive financial aid plan.
Sponsor: Dan Morrish
Commends the Louisiana Motor Transportation Association and welcomes trucking industry professionals for the 2018 Truck Day at the state capitol.
Sponsor: Patrick Cortez
Commends Mayor Freddie Boswell of New Llano, Louisiana upon his retirement, having served as mayor for twenty years.
Sponsor: John Smith
Recognizes Wednesday, May 2, 2018, as National Get Fit Don't Sit Day at the state capitol and the American Diabetes Association for its pivotal contributions to a healthier future for the state.
Sponsor: Dan Claitor
Requests the Louisiana Department of Insurance to assemble a task force to address the high automobile insurance rates in the state.
Sponsor: Wesley Bishop
Commends the Madison Preparatory Academy Chargers boys' basketball team on winning the 2018 LHSAA Class 3A championship.
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Commends James K. Elrod upon being honored as a Louisiana Legend by the Friends of Louisiana Public Broadcasting.
Sponsor: Gerald Long
Approves the Atchafalaya Basin Annual Plan for Fiscal Year 2018-2019, as adopted by the Atchafalaya Basin Research and Promotion Board and the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority.
Sponsor: Rick Ward
Commends and recognizes Alyssa Carson on her many accomplishments.
Sponsor: Sharon Hewitt
Memorializes Congress to allow for variances on certain projects regulated by the Clean Water Act and the Rivers and Harbors Act.
Sponsor: Gary Smith
Requests the Board of Regents to report on all students admitted to public postsecondary four-year institutions who did not meet admission requirements.
Sponsor: Michael Walsworth
Requests the office of motor vehicles to continue to improve its efficiency in delivering services to the citizens of Louisiana.
Sponsor: Wesley Bishop
Designates Thursday, May 3, 2018, as "NASA Day" at the state capitol and commends NASA and the Michoud Assembly Facility on their significant accomplishments which have positively impacted the United States and this state.
Sponsor: Sharon Hewitt
Provides for the filiation of a child
Sponsor: Stephen Dwight
Commends the Reverend Lonnie Hamilton Jr. on his retirement as pastor of New Boggy Baptist Church in Bethany, Louisiana.
Sponsor: Gregory Tarver
Designates May 2, 2018, as LMA Municipal Day at the state capitol.
Sponsor: Yvonne Dorsey-Colomb
Requests the Department of Children and Family Services to study extending the age of foster care to age twenty-one.
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Expresses sincere and heartfelt condolences upon the death of Wade Joseph Watkins.
Sponsor: Fred Mills
Commends, posthumously, Dr. Alton Ochsner Sr. upon his induction into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame.
Sponsor: Gerald Long
Extends creation of the Louisiana Supply Chain and Transportation Council.
Sponsor: Patrick Cortez
Provides relative to the crime of operating a vehicle while intoxicated
Sponsor: John Bagneris
Expresses condolences upon the death of Leslie B. Lampton.
Sponsor: Francis Thompson
Expresses condolences upon the death of Wilfred Dennis Jr. of New Orleans.
Sponsor: Troy Carter
Commends Donna Britt for her accomplishments and service to the Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Information Center of Louisiana.
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Commends the coaches, gymnasts and staff of the LSU Women's Gymnastics team for an outstanding season.
Sponsor: John Alario
Recognizes the lives and legacies of Denver Smith and Leonard Brown and honors them, posthumously, as casualties of the civil rights movement.
Sponsor: Wesley Bishop
Provides relative to House Legislative Services employees
Sponsor: Taylor Barras
Commends Sunjay Letchuman upon his selection as the 2018 Louisiana High School Student of the Year.
Sponsor: Barrow Peacock
Requests the Board of Regents and each postsecondary education management board to install internet filters to block content which is obscene, pornographic, or sexually harassing and which creates a hostile education or work environment.
Sponsor: Beth Mizell
Recognizes May as Grandparents Raising Grandchildren month in Louisiana.
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Commends Ashini A. Modi as the 2018 Louisiana Middle School Student of the Year.
Sponsor: Barrow Peacock
Commends the 2018 Peabody Magnet High School girls powerliftng team on winning the state championship.
Sponsor: W. Jay Luneau
Provides relative to authorized payroll withholdings for professional organization dues and certain contracts with school boards (OR INCREASE LF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Nancy Landry
Commends the Braden family upon earning the Political Family of Officeholders Award.
Sponsor: Gerald Long
Authorizes a natural or juridical person to serve as director of the Registrars of Voters Employees' Retirement System (EG NO IMPACT APV)
Sponsor: Barbara Carpenter
Commends the Louisiana State University gymnastics team on an outstanding 2018 season
Sponsor: Franklin Foil
Repeals the termination date on the New Orleans Ferry Fund (EG SEE FISC NOTE SD RV See Note)
Sponsor: Gary Carter
Provides relative to the delivery of alcoholic beverages. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Dan Morrish
Commends the Louisiana Motor Transport Association and welcomes the trucking industry professionals to 2018 Truck Day at the state capitol
Sponsor: Terry Landry
Commends Danielle's Dance Academy upon celebrating five years of teaching dance
Sponsor: Ken Brass
Commends the Madison Preparatory Academy boys' basketball team on winning the 2018 Class 3A state championship
Sponsor: Patricia Smith
Provides relative to specialty pharmacy licenses for marijuana dispensing pharmacies
Sponsor: Marcus Hunter
Recognizes May 1, 2018, as Acadiana Day at the state capitol
Sponsor: Mike Huval
Commends Ethel Blake on her retirement from Central Louisiana Technical Community College, Natchitoches
Sponsor: Kenny Cox
Creates the Louisiana Credit Access Loan Act. (8/1/19)
Sponsor: Rick Ward
Designates the city of St. Martinville as the Louisiana Pepper Capital of the world
Sponsor: Mike Huval
Recognizes May 2, 2018, as National Get Fit Don't Sit Day at the state capitol and commends the American Diabetes Association
Sponsor: Franklin Foil
Commends posthumously Sergeant John Ray of Gretna, Louisiana
Sponsor: Raymond Garofalo
Commends Bishop Neil C. Ellis for his many accomplishments
Sponsor: Kenny Cox
Commends Pennington Biomedical Research Center on its thirtieth anniversary
Sponsor: Franklin Foil
Dedicates certain state sales and use tax revenues for deposit into the Construction Subfund of the Transportation Trust Fund under certain circumstances (EG DECREASE GF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Paula Davis
Commends and expresses appreciation to the Honorable Michael E. Danahay for his outstanding legislative service and recognizes his contributions to his district and the state
Sponsor: Taylor Barras
Authorizes investigative powers to the Jefferson Parish Inspector General's Office relative to the Jefferson Parish School Board. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Conrad Appel
Re-creates the Department of Public Service. (6/30/18)
Sponsor: Daniel Martiny
Expresses condolences on the death of Reverend Gary Lee Jones
Sponsor: Robert Johnson
Provides relative to parole eligibility for certain prisoners sentenced to life who have served at least thirty years. (11/1/18)
Sponsor: Troy Carter
Provides relative to juvenile court jurisdiction
Sponsor: Robert Shadoin
Provides for certain requirements for specified agency heads including prohibitions on engaging in outside activities or employment for any thing of economic value (EG SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Lance Harris
Provides relative to the local match requirements for nonstate entities applying for capital outlay funding (EG NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Jerome Zeringue
Requires a portion of the monies in the Unclaimed Property Leverage Fund to be dedicated to the Louisiana Early Childhood Education Fund (RR -$10,000,000 GF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Stephen Carter
Creates an individual income tax checkoff for the Uninsured Medical Catastrophe Donation and dedicates the monies to the Uninsured Medical Catastrophe Fund (EG NO IMPACT GF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Katrina Jackson-Andrews
Provides relative to the Physician's Bill of Rights. (8/1/18) (RE INCREASE SG EX See Note)
Sponsor: John Milkovich
Requests Attorney General Jeff Landry to prepare and file an amicus brief in federal court to support the state of Mississippi in their litigation efforts to ban elective abortions after fifteen weeks.
Sponsor: Fred Mills
Provides for the Louisiana Complete Count Committee (EG INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Katrina Jackson-Andrews
Expresses condolences upon the death of Willie Lee Carr "Madear" Kirkendoll.
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Recognizes Friday, April 27, 2018, as Workers' Memorial Day in recognition of workers killed, injured, and disabled on the job.
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Establishes a permit fee for milk, dairy farms, and milk processing plants (EN +$55,740 SG RV See Note)
Sponsor: Jerry Gisclair
Expresses the condolences of the Senate of the Louisiana Legislature on the death of Army National Guard Sergeant Mark C. Palmateer.
Sponsor: Jonathan Perry
Provides for the frequency of meetings of the Louisiana Agricultural Commodities Commission
Sponsor: John Anders
Provides relative to the registration of controlling persons for business entities acting as insurance producers
Sponsor: Mike Huval
Updates citations and terminology for certain child care facilities in provisions relating to sex offenders
Sponsor: Stephen Dwight
Provides relative to the qualifications for the office of coroner
Sponsor: Christopher Leopold
Amends criminal penalties for the crime of armed robbery
Sponsor: Vincent Pierre
Re-creates the Department of Children and Family Services
Sponsor: Frank Hoffmann
Creates the Internet Privacy and Protection Act
Sponsor: Edmond Jordan
Provides relative to workers' compensation. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: W. Jay Luneau
Creates the Medicaid Recipient Fraud Unit within the office of the attorney general (RE INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Sherman Mack
Provides for election sections for the Juvenile Court for the Parish of Jefferson
Sponsor: Rodney Lyons
Provides for the vesting period for members of the Municipal Employees' Retirement System of Louisiana (EN NO IMPACT APV)
Sponsor: Kevin Pearson
Provides for the Omnibus Bond Act
Sponsor: Neil Abramson
Expresses condolences on the death of Norma Jean Jernigan Blake.
Sponsor: Gregory Tarver
Commends and recognizes registered nurses as a valuable resource and celebrates their accomplishments.
Sponsor: Sharon Hewitt
Provides relative to types of coverage available under surplus lines insurance (EG NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: Mike Huval
Provides relative to the calculation of final average compensation for members of the Registrars of Voters Employees' Retirement System (EG NO IMPACT APV)
Sponsor: Barbara Carpenter
Expresses condolences on the death of Norma Jernigan Blake
Sponsor: Samuel Jenkins
Designates Tuesday, April 24, 2018, as Oil and Natural Gas Industry Day at the state capitol.
Sponsor: Norby Chabert
Provides relative to the licensing and regulation of insurance producers
Sponsor: Vincent Pierre
Commends the Assumption Parish Police Jury for renaming of the Dorseyville Park to the Gilbert Dupaty Memorial Park.
Sponsor: Edward Price
Expresses the condolences of the Senate of the Louisiana Legislature on the death of U.S. Army Sergeant First Class Lester Walker.
Sponsor: Michael Walsworth
Expresses condolences on the death of Arcadia Mayor Eugene Smith
Sponsor: Patrick Jefferson
Commends the Scotlandville Magnet High School boys basketball team on winning the LHSAA 5A Division I state championship.
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Recognizes Wednesday, April 25, 2018, as GNO, Inc. NextGen Day at the state capitol.
Sponsor: Conrad Appel
Expresses condolences upon the death of Paul Joseph "Pojo" Morvant Sr.
Sponsor: Fred Mills
Commends, posthumously, John P. Nelson Jr. for his contributions to civil rights in Louisiana.
Sponsor: Dan Claitor
Establishes the Louisiana Checkbook website to provide transparency of state fiscal information (EG INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Taylor Barras
Creates a task force to study issues relative to the employment of retired teachers to meet teacher shortages in public schools
Sponsor: Lawrence Bagley
Commends Baton Rouge police officer Deena Weissberg for her efforts to raise funds for Back the Blue of Baton Rouge
Sponsor: Paula Davis
Commends the Baker High School Symphonic Band for its performance at Carnegie Hall.
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Commends the organizers of the LA Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership seminars and recognizes Monday, April 23, 2018, as "HOBY Youth Leadership Day" at the state capitol.
Sponsor: Jonathan Perry
Creates a program for education savings accounts for tuition expenses for elementary and secondary schools (RR INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Jerome Zeringue
Expresses the condolences of the Senate of the Louisiana Legislature upon the death of U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Dominique J. Clement.
Sponsor: Jonathan Perry
Expresses the condolences of the Senate of the Louisiana Legislature on the death of U.S. Naval Aviation Instructor Lieutenant Patrick L. Ruth.
Sponsor: Jonathan Perry
To express condolences from the Senate of the Louisiana Legislature on the death of U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Taylor Conrad.
Sponsor: Jonathan Perry
Recognizes the celebration of the National Day of Prayer at Mt. Calvary Baptist Church on May 3, 2018
Sponsor: Terry Landry
Commends the Jehovah-Jireh High School boys basketball team on winning the 2018 LHSAA Division V state championship.
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Expresses sincere and heartfelt condolences upon the death of Dr. William David Thompson.
Sponsor: John Alario
Expresses condolences on the death of Willard Jones, Sr.
Sponsor: Kenny Cox
Expresses condolences on the death of Clyde "Rock" Gisclair, former assessor for St. Charles Parish.
Sponsor: Gary Smith
Requests BESE, DOE, and K-12 governing authorities to develop policies relative to student participation in state-mandated assessments.
Sponsor: Ronnie Johns
Requests the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to study the possibility of lowering the performance rating required for teachers to be granted tenure or to reacquire tenure
Sponsor: Frank Hoffmann
Recognizes May 9, 2018, as Purple and Teal Day in Louisiana.
Sponsor: Ronnie Johns
Commends Dennis S. Cousin for his service to the St. Tammany Parish School Board and the community.
Sponsor: Sharon Hewitt
Provides relative to nonprofit funeral service associations
Sponsor: Edmond Jordan
Commends Charlie "Coach" Bowman for his service with St. Tammany Parish School Board and to the community.
Sponsor: Sharon Hewitt
Corrects statutory references remaining from the transfer of the State Land Office from the Department of Natural Resources to the Division of Administration
Sponsor: Rodney Lyons
To express the condolences of the Senate of the Louisiana Legislature on the death of U.S. Army Sergeant Brock Rollins.
Sponsor: Jonathan Perry
Expresses condolences on the death of Mamie Wallace, revered Shreveport civil rights activist.
Sponsor: Gregory Tarver
Commends Margaret Britton on achieving the Girl Scout Gold Award.
Sponsor: Eddie Lambert
Expresses the condolences of the Louisiana Senate on the death of U.S. Naval Aviation Boatswain's Mate Matthew Chialastri.
Sponsor: Jonathan Perry
Provides for insurance producer prelicensing program requirements
Sponsor: Edmond Jordan
Provides relative to exceptions of limitation of liability for loss connected with sale, serving, or furnishing of alcoholic beverages. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Rick Ward
Increases limitations on fees relative to the Louisiana State Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors
Sponsor: John Bagneris
Creates the TOPS-Tech 2Plus2 Award. (gov sig) (RE SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Mack White
Exempts the exclusive practices of shampooing and threading from regulation by the Louisiana State Board of Cosmetology
Sponsor: Julie Emerson
Provides relative to continuing education requirements for insurance producers. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: John Smith
Provides relative to the electronic filing of documents. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: John Smith
Provides relative to the registration of catastrophe or emergency claims adjusters. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: John Smith
Provides relative to the discretion vested in the commissioner of insurance to levy fines for the violation of complaint directives. (8/1/18) (EG SEE FISC NOTE SG RV See Note)
Sponsor: John Smith
Provides for health insurance policy coverage of incarcerated persons prior to adjudication. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: John Smith
Provides relative to continuing education for insurance adjusters. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: John Smith
Recognizes April as Sarcoidosis Awareness Month in Louisiana
Sponsor: Barbara Carpenter
Provides equal pay for women
Sponsor: Barbara Norton
Provides relative to the issuance of occupational or professional licenses to military families in the state
Sponsor: Randal Gaines
Commends certain entities for their commitment to Louisiana's military installations, military personnel, and their communities and families
Sponsor: James Armes
Designates May 2, 2018, as LMA Municipal Day at the state capitol
Sponsor: John Berthelot
Commends the Catholic High School football team on winning the 2017 Allstate Sugar Bowl Louisiana High School Athletic Association Division I state championship
Sponsor: Stephen Carter
Designates April 24, 2018, Oil and Natural Gas Industry Day at the state capitol
Sponsor: Stuart Bishop
Encourages restaurants, bars, or other establishments that provide television viewing for its customers to display captioning when available
Sponsor: Patricia Smith
Recognizes May 6-12, 2018, as National Travel and Tourism Week
Sponsor: Ken Brass
Provides relative to supplemental pay for levee district police officers (EG INCREASE LF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Stephanie Hilferty
Recognizes April 25, 2018, as Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Incorporated, Day at the state capitol
Sponsor: Edward James
Expresses condolences upon the death of Elton "Bee" Cormier
Sponsor: Phillip DeVillier
Commends David and Kathy Jones on the tenth anniversary of their service to Hollywood Road Church of Christ in Houma
Sponsor: Tanner Magee
Recognizes May 7-12, 2018, as National Economic Development Week
Sponsor: Ken Brass
Recognizes May 9, 2018, as March of Dimes Day at the state capitol
Sponsor: Frank Hoffmann
Requests La. State Police and the sheriff of each parish to develop a procedure for notification to law enforcement of individuals who are prohibited from possessing a firearm.
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Designates May 8, 2018, as Elmer's Candy Day in Louisiana
Sponsor: Stephen Pugh
Commends the Baker High School Symphonic Band for its many achievements and for participating in the March 2018 Conductor-Composer Clinic at Carnegie Hall in New York
Sponsor: Barbara Carpenter
Commends the Louisiana Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) programs and volunteers
Sponsor: Lowell Hazel
Recognizes May 6-12, 2018, as National Nurses Week in Louisiana
Sponsor: Dustin Miller
Commends The Dunham School boys' basketball team on winning the 2018 LHSAA Division III state championship
Sponsor: Franklin Foil
Commends the organizers, volunteers, and royal court of the 2018 Italian Festival in Tickfaw
Sponsor: Nicholas Muscarello
Provides relative to the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans
Sponsor: Stephanie Hilferty
Recognizes April 25, 2018, as Greater New Orleans, Incorporated, NextGen Day at the state capitol
Sponsor: Walt Leger
Commends SMILE Community Action Agency on its fiftieth anniversary and recognizes May 2018 as Community Action Month in Louisiana
Sponsor: Terry Landry
Commends the organizers of the Louisiana Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership seminars and designates April 23, 2018, as Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership Day
Sponsor: Taylor Barras
Expresses condolences on the death of Christopher Michael "Chris" Lawton
Sponsor: Kenneth Havard
Commends David Milos Pavlovich, posthumously, for his many contributions to Plaquemines Parish
Sponsor: Christopher Leopold
Commends Coach Dale Weiner on his induction into the Louisiana High School Sports Hall of Fame
Sponsor: Stephen Carter
Commends Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated, on its one hundred twelfth anniversary and recognizes April 24, 2018, as Alpha Phi Alpha Day at the state capitol
Sponsor: Ken Brass
Commends the Ash family of Vacherie on the occasion of its first family reunion
Sponsor: Ken Brass
Designates April 26, 2018, as Children's Advocacy Centers Day
Sponsor: Stephen Carter
Provides relative to the relocation of the gaming operations of a riverboat licensee. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Daniel Martiny
Provides relative to the designated gaming area at live horse racing facilities. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Eric LaFleur
Authorizes the securitization of the economic damage portion of the Deepwater Horizon income stream. (gov sig) (RE INCREASE SG EX See Note)
Sponsor: Eric LaFleur
Provides for a referendum election in Tangipahoa Parish regarding riverboat gaming. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Mack White
Creates a task force to study the issue of a minimum wage for certain tipped employees and whether an increase would reduce instances of sexual harassment
Sponsor: Edmond Jordan
Provides for the order of payment of judgments and compromises against the state, subject to funding. (gov sig) (EGF INCREASE SD EX See Note)
Sponsor: Dan Claitor
Establishes lane use requirements for certain motor vehicles on interstate highways
Sponsor: Stephen Carter
Commends Mayor Ron Roberts of DeRidder, Louisiana, upon his retirement after three terms as mayor.
Sponsor: John Smith
Requests the Department of Insurance to establish a task force to make recommendations for proposed legislation to address the issue of balance billing in Louisiana
Sponsor: Kirk Talbot
Provides relative to reemployment of retirees of the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana (EG INCREASE APV)
Sponsor: Kevin Pearson
Provides relative to riverboat gaming. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Daniel Martiny
Increases penalties for the manufacture, production, distribution, or possession with intent to distribute heroin (EG SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Franklin Foil
Provides relative to the Recognition of Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact ("REPLICA"). (gov sig) (EG SEE FISC NOTE SG EX See Note)
Sponsor: Barrow Peacock
Prohibits the intentional falsification of reports or records related to criminal investigations or complaints
Sponsor: Edward James
Provides for the filiation of a child under certain circumstances
Sponsor: Robert Billiot
Continues and provides with respect to the Task Force on Telehealth Access
Sponsor: Scott Simon
Provides right of an oral argument in contradictory proceedings. (gov sig)
Sponsor: John Milkovich
Commends the town of Abita Springs for joining the Sierra Club Ready for 100 program
Sponsor: Paul Hollis
Expresses the intent of the legislature that only district members of the New Orleans City Council in whose district a non-flood asset is located shall appoint a member to the Non-Flood Protection Asset Management Authority.
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Commends James Gill upon his induction into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame.
Sponsor: Gerald Long
Expresses sincere condolences to the family and friends of N.J. "Woody" Oge' Jr. on the occasion of his passing.
Sponsor: John Alario
Commends Newell D. Normand upon his induction into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame.
Sponsor: Gerald Long
Expresses condolences upon the death of Dr. Vincent C. Marsala, former chancellor of LSU Shreveport.
Sponsor: Barrow Peacock
Restructuring of hunting and fishing licenses (EG INCREASE SD RV See Note)
Sponsor: Jerome Zeringue
Recognizes April 19, 2018, as Pastor Appreciation Day at the state capitol
Sponsor: Rick Edmonds
Provides relative to the statutory rights of teachers
Sponsor: Stephen Carter
Provides relative to special permit fees (OR INCREASE SD RV See Note)
Sponsor: Terry Landry
Enacts the Louisiana Right to Earn a Living Act. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Rick Ward
Expresses condolences on the death of Mother Evelyn Jewel "Tina" Jones
Sponsor: Katrina Jackson-Andrews
Prohibits the raffle or giving away of certain animals as a novelty or prize at a carnival or fair. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Troy Carter
Provides relative to medical malpractice and certain limitations of liability and procedures. (8/1/18) (EG NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: Rick Ward
Enacts the Inmate Rehabilitation and Computer Technology Development Act (EG SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Barry Ivey
Provides relative to industrial development boards in certain municipalities
Sponsor: Jimmy Harris
Provides for nonstate entity capital outlay projects
Sponsor: Neil Abramson
Commends Sanchicaun Bryant for service to her community
Sponsor: Patricia Smith
Provides for a hybrid plan for rank and file members. (2/3 - CA 10s29(F)) (6/30/18) (EG INCREASE APV)
Sponsor: Barrow Peacock
Commends the Belle Chase High School varsity cheerleaders on winning the NCA High School National Championship and the Small Varsity Non-Tumbling national title.
Sponsor: Troy Carter
Designates Tuesday, April 17, 2018, as Bankers Day at the state capitol.
Sponsor: Gerald Long
Commends LSU student Madelyn Smith on being named a 2018 Udall Scholar.
Sponsor: Patrick Cortez
Commends Sarah Michelle Procopio upon being selected as a recipient of the 2018 College Women of Excellence Award and a Louisiana Legislative Women's Caucus Foundation Scholarship.
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Commends Perrye K. Turner for serving as special agent in charge of the Houston, Texas, field office.
Sponsor: Wesley Bishop
Commends the Grambling State University Tigers men's basketball team for its outstanding season.
Sponsor: Edward Price
Commends Margaret Elizabeth Britton upon being selected as a recipient of a 2018 High School Women of Excellence Award and a Louisiana Legislative Women's Caucus Foundation Scholarship.
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Commends Ray Dupuy, posthumously, for his service to the Slidell Police force and community.
Sponsor: Sharon Hewitt
Commends Adriana Martin on her new record for the rendition of the numerical quotient of Pi.
Sponsor: Barrow Peacock
Commends Rachel Margaret Lautigar upon her receipt of a 2018 Women of Excellence Award and a Louisiana Legislative Women's Caucus Foundation Scholarship.
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Commends Tulane University on its decision to retire No.18 in all sports in honor of Devon Walker.
Sponsor: Wesley Bishop
Expresses condolences on the death of Elnora Sonnier Jolivette.
Sponsor: Gerald Boudreaux
Commends the LSU Health New Orleans School of Dentistry for receiving the 2018 Gies Award for Vision in Academic Dental Institutions.
Sponsor: Wesley Bishop
Commends Emily Ames Otken upon being selected as a recipient of the 2018 High School Women of Excellence Award and a Louisiana Legislative Women's Caucus Foundation Scholarship.
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Requests the New Orleans City Council to develop a way to appropriately honor Antoine "Fats" Domino Jr., for his commitment to and history with the community, the city of New Orleans, and the country.
Sponsor: Wesley Bishop
Commends Olivia Maria Adams upon being selected as a recipient of a 2018 High School Women of Excellence Award and a Louisiana Legislative Women's Caucus Foundation Scholarship.
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Commends the LSUA men's basketball team for advancing to the NAIA Division I Men's Basketball National Championship game.
Sponsor: Gerald Long
Prohibits the use of zip codes as the sole basis for rate determinations
Sponsor: Marcus Hunter
Recognizes April 12, 2018, as Louisiana Children's Trust Fund Day at the Capitol
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Commends the 2018 individual nominees for the Unsung Hero Award of Community Against Drugs and Violence.
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Commends Glen F. Post III upon his retirement from CenturyLink, Inc.
Sponsor: Michael Walsworth
Commends Kevin L. Dupuy for his service to the Slidell Police Department and community.
Sponsor: Sharon Hewitt
Commends Tayler Brishaune Pierre upon being selected as a recipient of a 2018 College Women of Excellence Award and a Louisiana Legislative Women's Caucus Foundation Scholarship.
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Commends Paul Mainieri on the 1,400th victory of his college baseball coaching career.
Sponsor: Gerald Long
Commends Willie B. Jeter for his years of service to the St. Tammany Parish schools and community.
Sponsor: Sharon Hewitt
Commends Mayor Lawrence Henagan of Dequincy, Louisiana, upon his retirement.
Sponsor: John Smith
Expresses condolences upon the death of Willie Aubrey Salard, champion horse breeder.
Sponsor: Barrow Peacock
Commends the Louisiana Athletic Trainers Association and designates Tuesday, April 17, 2018, as Louisiana Athletic Trainers Association Day at the Louisiana State Capitol.
Sponsor: Michael Walsworth
Commends Anthony Alfred for his service to the St. Tammany Parish School Board and to the community.
Sponsor: Sharon Hewitt
Provides with regard to voiding acknowledgment of paternity
Sponsor: Edward James
Commends Charlie "Coach" Bowman for his service with St. Tammany Parish School Board and to the community.
Sponsor: Sharon Hewitt
Establishes reporting requirements for businesses and governmental entities using service providers. (8/1/18) (RE SEE FISC NOTE GF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Eric LaFleur
Requests the Department of Economic Development to encourage further economic ties between the state of Louisiana and Taiwan.
Sponsor: Neil Riser
Expresses condolences on the death of Judge James J. "Jim" Brady.
Sponsor: W. Jay Luneau
Designates May 30, 2018, as 4-H Day at the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana and commends the state 4-H officers.
Sponsor: Francis Thompson
Commends the efforts of The Links, Incorporated and designates Wednesday, April 18, 2018 as Louisiana Links Day at the state capitol.
Sponsor: Karen Peterson
Designates April 26, 2018, as FFA Day at the Louisiana State Capitol and commends the state officers of the Louisiana FFA Association.
Sponsor: Francis Thompson
Expresses condolences upon the death of George Edward Clyde Sr.
Sponsor: Ronnie Johns
Declares Thursday, May 3, 2018, as Rotary Peace Day.
Sponsor: Ronnie Johns
Designates April 17, 2018, as Bankers Day at the state capitol
Sponsor: Robert Shadoin
Commends LSU Health New Orleans for its dedication to forming, promoting, and sustaining STEM programs.
Sponsor: Sharon Hewitt
Recognizes Monday, April 16, 2018, as DASH Diet Day.
Sponsor: Dan Claitor
Commends Thomas Hodgson on achieving the rank of Eagle Scout.
Sponsor: Eddie Lambert
Recognizes Wednesday, April 11, 2018, as Ports Day at the state capitol.
Sponsor: Daniel Martiny
Expresses condolences on the death of John Daniel Gielen III.
Sponsor: Dan Morrish
Re-creates the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry. (6/30/18)
Sponsor: Francis Thompson
Commends champion boxer Regis "Rougarou" Prograis for his many accomplishments
Sponsor: Royce Duplessis
Provides relative to the Old Arsenal Museum. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Jonathan Perry
Commends Kirk Lepine of Plaquemines Parish for his many accomplishments
Sponsor: Christopher Leopold
Designates April 17, 2018, as LSU Day at the state capitol
Sponsor: Walt Leger
Designates Wednesday, May 30, 2018, as 4-H Day at the state capitol
Sponsor: Clay Schexnayder
Recognizes April 16, 2018, as Suicide Prevention Day
Sponsor: Walt Leger
Recognizes April 2018 as Parkinson's Awareness Month
Sponsor: Paula Davis
Provides relative to advanced practice registered nursing. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Fred Mills
Commends LSU Health Sciences Center at New Orleans for its participation in the Southeast Partnership for Improving Research and Training in Cancer Health Disparities and its receipt of a National Institutes of Health P20 Exploratory Center Grant
Sponsor: Julie Stokes
Provides relative to transportation network company requirements
Sponsor: Taylor Barras
Recognizes April 19, 2018, as Louisiana Senior Citizen Day
Sponsor: Charles Chaney
Expresses condolences upon the death of Edward McNeill, Jr., of New Orleans
Sponsor: Walt Leger
Provides for the establishment and maintenance of a monument on the east side of the state capitol to honor the sacrifices of Louisiana Gold Star Families. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Jonathan Perry
Memorializes congress and the Louisiana Congressional Delegation to work towards a dependable and equitable revenue sharing for Louisiana mineral and gas production
Sponsor: Raymond Garofalo
Commends LSU student Jack Green of Lake Charles upon being named a 2018 Udall Scholar
Sponsor: Mark Abraham
Designates April 24, 2018, as AKA day at the state capitol
Sponsor: Patricia Smith
Commends the organizers and volunteers of the 2018 Plaquemines Parish Fair and Orange Festival, Orange Queen Hope Noelle Wilkins, and Teen Orange Queen Jenna Reneé Hewitt
Sponsor: Christopher Leopold
Approves the annual integrated coastal protection plan for Fiscal Year 2019, as adopted by the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority Board.
Sponsor: Stuart Bishop
Commends the Louisiana Athletic Trainers Association and designates April 17, 2018, as LATA Day at the state capitol
Sponsor: Stephen Pugh
Designates a portion of Louisiana Highway 377 as the "SSGT S.E. Howell, Jr. Memorial Highway"
Sponsor: Dorothy Hill
Provides for the age limit for a child to accompany a parent or guardian into the voting machine (EG NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: Marcus Hunter
Designates April 18, 2018, as AARP Louisiana Caregiver Day at the state capitol
Sponsor: Edward James
Commends LSU student Corey Matyas upon being named a 2018 Goldwater Scholar
Sponsor: Franklin Foil
Authorizes the state Dept. of Education and the Dept. of Health to survey students regarding certain risk behavior associated with chronic health conditions. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Dan Claitor
Commends the Lafayette Christian Academy football team upon winning its first Louisiana High School Athletic Association Division IV state championship
Sponsor: Vincent Pierre
Commends the Welsh High School football team on winning the 2017 Class 2A state championship
Sponsor: John Guinn
Commends Joe Arthur Sturges for his many accomplishments and recognizes May 9, 2018, as Joe Arthur Sturges Day in Claiborne Parish
Sponsor: Patrick Jefferson
Commends the organizers and volunteers of the 2018 Plaquemines Parish Heritage and Seafood Festival, and Seafood Queen Emily Blair Fincher
Sponsor: Christopher Leopold
Provides relative to behavioral health services providers. (gov sig)
Sponsor: W. Jay Luneau
Commends LSU student Madelyn Smith of Lafayette on being named a 2018 Udall Scholar
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Coussan
Requests schools to offer American Sign Language (ASL) instruction and ASL club opportunities on school campuses
Sponsor: Patricia Smith
Commends St. Peter Catholic Church on its one hundred seventy-fifth anniversary
Sponsor: Mark Wright
Authorizes a rebate for taxpayers who donate to certain higher education scholarship and grant programs (RE -$5,000,000 GF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Edward James
Commends Bishop Michael G. Duca of the Diocese of Shreveport on the fortieth anniversary of his priestly ordination and the tenth anniversary of his Episcopal ordination
Sponsor: Charles Chaney
Commends Perrye K. Turner for serving as special agent in charge of the Houston, Texas, FBI field office
Sponsor: Kenny Cox
Commends Annie Carr for her years of service to public health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Sponsor: Edmond Jordan
Provides relative to appellate records. (gov sig)
Sponsor: John Milkovich
Provides relative to emergency management
Sponsor: Franklin Foil
Provides relative to the eligibility requirements for the inmate rehabilitation and workforce development program
Sponsor: Patricia Smith
Changes the effective date of the definition of "child". (6/1/18)
Sponsor: Michael Walsworth
Provides relative to administrative sanctions
Sponsor: Stephen Dwight
Provides relative to searches of persons placed on probation or parole
Sponsor: Stephanie Hilferty
Urges the governor to declare a state of emergency concerning the quality of drinking water in Louisiana
Sponsor: Marcus Hunter
Requires the La. Department of Health to implement the Medicaid health home option for persons with serious mental illness (EG INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Barbara Norton
Provides relative to the statutory rights of teachers
Sponsor: Stephen Carter
Allows certain Type 1 charter schools to act as their own local education agencies (EG SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Julie Stokes
Urges the governor to declare a state of emergency concerning the quality of drinking water in Louisiana
Sponsor: Marcus Hunter
Provides for public access to the running waters of the state
Sponsor: Kevin Pearson
Designates April 16, 2018, as DASH Diet Day at the state capitol
Sponsor: Franklin Foil
Creates the Cypress Point Improvement District in East Baton Rouge Parish
Sponsor: Stephen Carter
Provides for automatic voter registration through driver's license facilities (OR +$81,300 GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Randal Gaines
Provides relative to virtual charter schools. (gov sig) (OR DECREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Gerald Boudreaux
Provides relative to the exemption of certain Louisiana residents from the crime of illegal carrying of weapons when the firearm is legally obtained, manufactured, and possessed
Sponsor: Barry Ivey
Commends the White Castle boys' basketball team on winning the Louisiana High School Athletic Association Class 1A state championship
Sponsor: Ken Brass
Provides for the assessment for certain commercial marine vessels and other commercial water craft that operate solely on inland waterways (EG SEE FISC NOTE LF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Julie Stokes
Creates a new Taylor Opportunity Program for Students (TOPS) award, the TOPS Transfer Award, and raises grade point average and ACT score required for initial eligibility for a TOPS Opportunity Award (EG DECREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Barry Ivey
Provides relative to a "concealed" firearm or weapon
Sponsor: Barry Ivey
Commends J.K. Haynes Charter Schools, Inc., on its twenty-year anniversary
Sponsor: Barbara Carpenter
Commends Kimberly Eckert on being selected as the 2018 Louisiana Teacher of the Year
Sponsor: Edmond Jordan
Commends Lula Mae Harris and recognizes April 15, 2018, as Mrs. Lula Mae Harris Day in Louisiana
Sponsor: Katrina Jackson-Andrews
Provides relative to the Port of South Louisiana
Sponsor: Sam Jones
Prohibits a manufacturer or wholesale distributor from engaging in price gouging in the sale of an essential off-patent or generic drug
Sponsor: Kirk Talbot
Commends the members of the United States Army War College team participating in the Eisenhower Series College Program and welcomes them to Louisiana in April of 2018
Sponsor: Franklin Foil
Creates a task force to study certain policies of the Baton Rouge Police Department
Sponsor: Denise Marcelle
Commends Walt Leger III, speaker pro tempore of the House of Representatives, upon his induction into the LSU Alumni Association Hall of Distinction and recognition as the 2018 Young Alumnus of the Year
Sponsor: Taylor Barras
Creates the crime of failure to identify the possession of a concealed handgun to a law enforcement officer
Sponsor: Barry Ivey
Raises grade point average required to maintain eligibility for the Taylor Opportunity Program for Students (TOPS) Opportunity Award (EG DECREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Barry Ivey
Commends the Walker High School boys' basketball team, 2018 Louisiana High School Athletic Association Class 5A state champions
Sponsor: Rogers Pope
Creates the Louisiana Commission on Safe Schools
Sponsor: Ken Brass
Expresses condolences upon the passing of Grady Wyly "Bubber" Brown Sr.
Sponsor: Francis Thompson
Commends and recognizes Alyssa Carson on her many accomplishments.
Sponsor: Sharon Hewitt
Commends Lafayette Christian Academy on winning the 2017 Division IV state football championship.
Sponsor: Gerald Boudreaux
Commends Mallory McConathy for being named as a student member at large on Alpha Lambda Delta's National Council.
Sponsor: Gerald Long
Provides 18 years of age shall be the minimum age for marriage. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Karen Peterson
Commends and congratulates Vermilion Bank on its sixtieth anniversary.
Sponsor: Jonathan Perry
Recognizes Tuesday, April 10, 2018, as Dental Hygiene Day and commends the Louisiana Dental Hygienists' Association on celebrating 105 years of Dental Hygienists Profession.
Sponsor: Fred Mills
Commends The Pentecostals of Bossier City for their 75th anniversary and Pastors Jerry and Gina Dean for their 30 years of pastoral service.
Sponsor: Ryan Gatti
Commends incoming NSU Student Government Association president Otha "Tre" Nelson III on his achievements and leadership.
Sponsor: Gerald Long
Commemorates the Fair Housing Act on its 50th Anniversary.
Sponsor: John Alario
Commends former State Senator Donald R. Cravins Jr. on being inducted into the Southern University Law Center Hall of Fame.
Sponsor: Wesley Bishop
Prohibits the importation, manufacture, sale, purchase, possession, or transfer of a rapid-fire device. (1/1/19)
Sponsor: Troy Carter
Commends John Leigh "Jay" Dardenne Jr. upon his induction into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame.
Sponsor: Gerald Long
Creates regional authority for certain infrastructure needs and provides relative to taxing powers and uses. (gov sig) (RE1 INCREASE LF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Rick Ward
Commends the Walker High School boys basketball team upon winning the LHSAA Class 5A state championship.
Sponsor: Dale Erdey
Creates the Right to Earn a Living Act
Sponsor: Polly Thomas
Commends the Grambling State University Tigers women's basketball team for its outstanding season.
Sponsor: Edward Price
Commends the Louisiana Physical Therapy Association for its achievements and recognizes April 10, 2018, as Physical Therapy Association Day.
Sponsor: Fred Mills
Eliminates the death penalty. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Designates April 11, 2018 as Tourism Day.
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Commends Professor Cynthia N. Reed on her being inducted into the Southern University Law Center Hall of Fame.
Sponsor: Karen Peterson
Recognizes the Junior Auxiliary of Slidell and designates April 15-21 as Junior Auxiliary Week at the Louisiana Senate.
Sponsor: Sharon Hewitt
Commends the Rayville High School Hornets boys basketball team upon winning the 2018 Allstate Sugar Bowl/LHSAA Tournament Class 2A State Championship.
Sponsor: Francis Thompson
Requests that the Southern University Board of Supervisors submit a proposal to the Board of Regents for establishing an associate of applied science degree program in process technology and that the Board of Regents approve it
Sponsor: Edmond Jordan
Commends the Rayville Junior High School Lady Hornets basketball team upon winning the 2017 Louisiana State Games Middle School 8th Grade Championship.
Sponsor: Francis Thompson
Commends the University of Louisiana at Monroe Warhawk Water Ski team upon winning the 2017 National Collegiate Water Ski Association National Championship.
Sponsor: Francis Thompson
Commends Lucille "Lucy" H. McDonald on 42 years of service with the Louisiana Department of Education.
Sponsor: Dan Claitor
Expresses condolences upon the death of Charles Rodney Prejean Sr.
Sponsor: Rick Ward
Provides relative to the educational requirements of the ATF Responsible Vendor Program for bartenders and servers (OR +$100,000 GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Stephanie Hilferty
Recognizes April 11, 2018, as Louisiana Entrepreneur Day at the state capitol and commends entrepreneurs and small business owners
Sponsor: Walt Leger
Provides for the licensing of bail enforcement agents
Sponsor: Katrina Jackson-Andrews
Commends Country Music Television, the Louisiana Community and Technical College System, Louisiana Calling, and Courtney Cole on the CMT Empowering Education Tour
Sponsor: Gregory Miller
Recognizes the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sponsor: Randal Gaines
Commends the Bossier Parish Community College debate team on winning the Community College National Championship at the 2018 International Public Debate Association National Tournament
Sponsor: Raymond Crews
Recognizes May 17, 2018, as Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG) Day
Sponsor: John Anders
Commends the Grambling State University men's basketball team for its outstanding 2017-2018 season
Sponsor: Patrick Jefferson
Commends David Scotton and his family upon the release of the documentary film "I Lived on Parker Avenue"
Sponsor: Frank Hoffmann
Commends DeSoto Parish Sheriff Rodney Arbuckle on his retirement
Sponsor: Lawrence Bagley
Provides relative to the salary of the commissioner of the Twenty-Second Judicial District Court
Sponsor: Malinda White
Commends the Nicholls State University women's basketball team for its outstanding 2017-2018 season
Sponsor: Beryl Amedee
Provides relative to battery of a dating partner, domestic abuse, and uniform abuse prevention orders (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)
Sponsor: Patricia Smith
Designates April 10, 2018, as Ponchatoula Strawberry Festival Day
Sponsor: Stephen Pugh
Makes permanent reductions to certain tax incentive rebate programs. (gov sig) (RE INCREASE GF RV See Note)
Sponsor: W. Jay Luneau
Commends New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary on the seminary's one hundredth anniversary celebration
Sponsor: Rick Edmonds
Designates April 17, 2018, as Plaquemines Parish Day at the state capitol
Sponsor: Christopher Leopold
Designates April 11, 2018, as Tourism Day at the state capitol
Sponsor: Julie Stokes
Commends the Grambling State University women's basketball team for its outstanding 2017-2018 season
Sponsor: Patrick Jefferson
Requires a mental health evaluation of persons who threaten public safety or physical harm to other persons (OR INCREASE EX See Note)
Sponsor: Tony Bacala
Commends Dr. Christopher Kevil of LSU Health Sciences Center at Shreveport on being awarded a Centers for Biomedical Research Excellence grant from the National Institutes of Health
Sponsor: Lawrence Bagley
Provides with respect to wage secrecy
Sponsor: Patrick Jefferson
Commends and expresses appreciation to the Honorable Helena Moreno for her outstanding legislative service and recognizes her contributions to her district and the state
Sponsor: Taylor Barras
Designates April 10, 2018, as Dental Hygiene Day at the state capitol and commends the Louisiana Dental Hygienists' Association
Sponsor: Frank Hoffmann
Commends the Southeastern Louisiana University Lionettes dance team on winning a gold medal at the 2018 Universal Dance Association Dance Team National Championships
Sponsor: Nicholas Muscarello
Recognizes April 10, 2018, as Liquified Natural Gas Day at the Legislature
Sponsor: Stuart Bishop
Commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the Fair Housing Act
Sponsor: Walt Leger
Commends the Louisiana Physical Therapy Association and designates April 10, 2018, as Louisiana Physical Therapy Association Day at the state capitol
Sponsor: Joseph Stagni
Recognizes Wednesday, April 11, 2018, as Sexual Assault Awareness Day in Louisiana
Sponsor: Patricia Smith
Moves families from poverty to empowerment. (gov sig) (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Adds licensed athletic trainer under the medical malpractice act
Sponsor: Stephen Pugh
Provides for the groundwater resources in and the commissioners of the Capital Area Groundwater Conservation District
Sponsor: Denise Marcelle
Provides relative to the admissibility of evidence of failure to wear a safety belt
Sponsor: Jack McFarland
Relative to safety, provides for instruction in public schools and public postsecondary education institutions, provides for reporting online content to school and campus security officers and local law enforcement agencies (OR SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)
Sponsor: Barbara Norton
Provides relative to public water systems
Sponsor: Clay Schexnayder
Authorizes and provides relative to certain electronic notarial acts. (8/1/19)
Sponsor: W. Jay Luneau
Provides for the fair pricing of gasoline
Sponsor: Lance Harris
Provides relative to the payment of restitution to the victim of a crime
Sponsor: Sherman Mack
Provides relative to requirements for enrollment of economically disadvantaged students in charter schools for children of military personnel
Sponsor: Christopher Leopold
Prohibits the open burning of munitions and waste explosives
Sponsor: Denise Marcelle
Provides for the purpose of payments made to waste tire processors
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Coussan
Prohibits sale of assault weapons to any person under the age of twenty-one. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Troy Carter
Revises processes for disciplinary action against nontenured and tenured teachers
Sponsor: Samuel Jenkins
Authorizes a qui tam action for persons who disclose certain cases of fraud
Sponsor: Raymond Crews
(Constitutional Amendment) Provides for the subject matters considered during regular legislative sessions (EG NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: Julie Stokes
Establishes procedures for review of future utility of well sites that have been inactive for more than ten years. (8/1/18) (RE INCREASE SD EX See Note)
Sponsor: R. Bret Allain
Amends and repeals administrative licensing requirements relative to alternative hair and alternative hair design
Sponsor: Julie Emerson
Provides for unregulated services within the Louisiana Cosmetology Act
Sponsor: Julie Emerson
Reduces the percentage of a teacher's evaluation that is based on growth in student achievement
Sponsor: Frank Hoffmann
Provides an ethics exception to allow legislators, statewide elected officials, specified public servants, immediate family members, and related legal entities to enter into contracts to be a public defender
Sponsor: Marcus Hunter
Repeals relative to retail florists and wholesale florists
Sponsor: Julie Emerson
Provides relative to registration and voting by a person convicted of a felony (OR INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Barry Ivey
Requires that the prescribers transmit prescriptions for opioids to pharmacies electronically (EG SEE FISC NOTE SG EX See Note)
Sponsor: Dustin Miller
Provides with respect to the development of appraisals and assessments of public service properties by the La. Tax Commission (OR INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Patrick Connick
Authorizes the retail sale of milk and milk products at less than cost and removes the authority of the Dairy Stabilization Board and the commissioner of agriculture to regulate the retail price of milk. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Beth Mizell
Requires insurance for persons handling explosives. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Ryan Gatti
Commends the Lafayette Christian Academy Knights basketball team on winning the LHSAA Class 1A state championship.
Sponsor: Gerald Boudreaux
Commends the Lafayette Christian Academy Lady Knights basketball team on winning the LHSAA Division IV state championship.
Sponsor: Gerald Boudreaux
Requires the Public Retirement Systems' Actuarial Committee to report to the legislature (RE +44,300 FC GF EX)
Sponsor: Barry Ivey
Expresses condolences upon the death of lobbyist, Paul Gallagher.
Sponsor: John Alario
Commends the Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center on hosting its 11th annual "Fest for Life" health event on Saturday, April 14, 2018.
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Commends the St. Thomas More Catholic High School Lady Cougars soccer team on winning the LHSAA Division II state championship.
Sponsor: Jonathan Perry
Designates April 4, 2018, as Nelson Chapel A.M.E. Church Day in the Louisiana Senate.
Sponsor: Edward Price
Commends First Mount Carmel Baptist Church for 150 years of service to its community and the members of its congregation.
Sponsor: Edward Price
Welcomes Michael Lebert to Louisiana and to the state capitol.
Sponsor: Beth Mizell
Expresses condolences upon the death of journalist and writer, Lou Gehrig Burnett.
Sponsor: Barrow Peacock
Commends Brayden Aime on achieving a perfect score on the ACT.
Sponsor: Eddie Lambert
Recognizes April as Sarcoidosis Awareness Month in Louisiana and designates April 2, 2018, as Sarcoidosis Awareness Day at the state capitol.
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Commends Jesseca Dupart on her many accomplishments.
Sponsor: Wesley Bishop
Expresses condolences upon the death of statesman and former state senator and representative, Tom Casey.
Sponsor: John Alario
Provides relative to compulsory motor vehicle liability security. (8/1/18) (OR DECREASE SD RV See Note)
Sponsor: John Milkovich
Designates July 2018 as Shingles Awareness and Improvement Month in Louisiana.
Sponsor: Fred Mills
Requires annual sexual harassment training for all public servants. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Commends the Delhi High School Lady Bears basketball team upon winning the 2018 Class 1A State Championship.
Sponsor: Francis Thompson
Commends NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility on being awarded the "Certified Louisiana" logo by the Department of Agriculture and Forestry.
Sponsor: Francis Thompson
Commends, posthumously, Reverend Avery Caesar Alexander upon his induction into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame.
Sponsor: Gerald Long
Provides relative to sexual harassment prevention policies and training for public servants. (gov sig) (EG SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Sharon Hewitt
Commends Country Music Television, Louisiana Calling, and the Louisiana Community and Technical College System on the Spring 2018 Empowering Education Tour.
Sponsor: Gerald Long
Designates November 2018 as School Psychology Awareness Month.
Sponsor: Dan Morrish
Commends the American Legion and its Auxiliary for hosting the 55th annual Vermilion Parish Government Day program.
Sponsor: Jonathan Perry
Expresses condolences upon the death of educator and former legislator, Dr. B. L. "Buddy" Shaw.
Sponsor: Barrow Peacock
Provides relative to the term of office of the Acadia Parish treasurer
Sponsor: John Stefanski
Provides relative to per diem paid to commissioners of Tangipahoa Parish Recreation District No. 3
Sponsor: Robert Carter
Expresses condolences upon the death of Alfred A. "Buck" Bayhi.
Sponsor: Ronnie Johns
Recognizes April 9, 2018, as Louisiana Drug and Specialty Court Day at the state capitol and commends the Louisiana Supreme Court Drug and Specialty Court Office and the Louisiana Association of Drug Court Professionals
Sponsor: Reid Falconer
Declares Wednesday, April 4, 2018, as Start by Believing Day.
Sponsor: Ryan Gatti
Recognizes March 2018 as Youth Art Month.
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Expresses opposition to the "One Lake" project proposing to dam the Pearl River and to build a 1,500 acre lake near Jackson, Mississippi and requests the United States Army Corps of Engineers to deny a pending permit for the project.
Sponsor: Beth Mizell
Commends the Delhi High School Bears boys basketball team upon being the Class 1A runner-up at the 2018 Allstate Sugar Bowl/LHSAA Tournament.
Sponsor: Francis Thompson
Commends the Louisiana Federation of Democratic Women and welcomes its members to the state capitol on May 15, 2018, in celebration of Women in Blue Day.
Sponsor: Karen Peterson
Commends the Carencro High School Golden Bears basketball team on winning the LHSAA Class 4A state championship.
Sponsor: Gerald Boudreaux
Commends Quentin D. Dastugue upon his induction into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame.
Sponsor: Michael Walsworth
Commends Louisiana's pregnancy resource centers, adoption agencies, social services, and pro-life organizations and citizens and recognizes April 4, 2018, as Pro-Life Day at the state capitol
Sponsor: Frank Hoffmann
Requests the Louisiana State Law Institute to review state laws, rules, regulations, policies, and procedures relative to mental health evaluations used in child custody and visitation proceedings.
Sponsor: Jonathan Perry
Recognizes April 25, 2018, as "Kappa Day at the Kapitol".
Sponsor: Troy Carter
Expresses condolences on death of Warren "Joe" Breaux Sr.
Sponsor: Gerald Boudreaux
Constitutional amendment to remove the mandatory retirement age for judges. (2/3 - CA13s1(A))
Sponsor: Dan Claitor
Commends Dennis J. O'Callaghan, PhD, for nearly 34 years of service as Chairman of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at LSU Health Shreveport.
Sponsor: Ryan Gatti
Provides relative to the La. Public Defender Fund
Sponsor: Sherman Mack
Invites Madame Chief Justice Bernette Johnson of the Louisiana Supreme Court to address a joint session of the legislature on Monday, April 23, 2018, at 2:00 p.m.
Sponsor: John Alario
Provides relative to health care emergency visit alternative treatment reimbursement. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Fred Mills
Requires advance notice of mass layoffs and closure of certain businesses. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Extends the prescriptive period for instituting certain claims. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Revises procedures relative to a student's inability to pay for school meals and a student's meal debt (RE INCREASE LF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Patricia Smith
Re-creates the Department of State and the statutory entities made a part of the department by law
Sponsor: Robert Shadoin
Provides for an increase of commissioners to the Recreation and Park Commission for the parish of East Baton Rouge. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Requires the Used Motor Vehicle Commission to report information collected by salvage pools and salvage disposal sales
Sponsor: Thomas Carmody
Provides for an exception relative to contracts in which public entities are participants. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Wesley Bishop
Provides relative to admissions to treatment facilities under an emergency certificate
Sponsor: Franklin Foil
Provides for military educational training to be used in lieu of college educational training in the licensure of physicians assistants. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Neil Riser
Limits expenditure of motor vehicle license tax proceeds dedicated to State Highway Fund No. 2. (gov sig) (EG SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Repeals requirement that nonprofits that own property in New Orleans annually apply to the assessor for the property tax exemption granted by the state constitution
Sponsor: John Bagneris
Provides relative to school employee participation in student-initiated prayer. (gov sig)
Sponsor: John Milkovich
Provides for coverage for fertility preservation for individuals diagnosed with cancer (EG INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Julie Stokes
Repeals the prohibition on the manufacture, ownership, possession, custody, or use of certain knives and similar instruments
Sponsor: Mark Wright
Provides, under specified circumstances, for repayment of a Taylor Opportunity Program for Students (TOPS) award (EG INCREASE GF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Raymond Garofalo
Authorizes public postsecondary education management boards to increase tuition and provides for limitations and exceptions (EG INCREASE SG RV See Note)
Sponsor: Barry Ivey
Commends Representative Blake Miguez on receiving the Greater Baton Rouge Business Report Top 20 Under 40 recognition
Sponsor: Taylor Barras
Recognizes April 2, 2018, as Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge Day at the state capitol and commends the council staff
Sponsor: Patricia Smith
Provides relative to the prohibition on public funding for entities that perform abortions (OR NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: Frank Hoffmann
Amends regulations on restaurants, parking lots, and fuel sales at qualified truck stop facilities and requirements for video poker games on video draw poker devices
Sponsor: Stuart Bishop
Provides relative to group insurance expenses of the clerk of court in St. Mary Parish
Sponsor: Sam Jones
Commends Second Good Hope Baptist Church in New Orleans upon the occasion of its 150th anniversary
Sponsor: Gary Carter
Provides relative to the regulations for and authority of owners or lessors of a qualified truck stop facility
Sponsor: Kirk Talbot
Expresses condolences on the death of John Daniel Gielen, III
Sponsor: John Stefanski
Establishes the Information Technology Infrastructure Fee to be assessed on certain state transactions to support the state's information technology infrastructure (OR INCREASE SD RV See Note)
Sponsor: Barry Ivey
Commends Julia "Hurricane" Hawkins for her many athletic accomplishments
Sponsor: Katrina Jackson-Andrews
Provides relative to quarter horse racing. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Eric LaFleur
Requires that all legislative instruments creating tax preferences include a sunset date.
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Provides relative to the filing of claims under the Uniform Unclaimed Property Act of 1997
Sponsor: Walt Leger
Provides relative to the Louisiana Smoke Free Air Act
Sponsor: Dustin Miller
Authorizes public institutions of higher education, when licensed, to conduct raffles. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Dan Morrish
Requires ignition interlock devices as a condition of obtaining restricted driver's licenses
Sponsor: Tanner Magee
Provides relative to inmate compensation and deductions from wages
Sponsor: Edward James
Provides relative to student discipline
Sponsor: Kenny Cox
Prohibits the acceptance of certain campaign contributions by the chairman of the State Bond Commission
Sponsor: Julie Stokes
Provides relative to the reimbursement methodology for nursing homes. (8/1/18) (OR SEE FISC NOTE SD EX)
Sponsor: John Milkovich
Provides for election sections for the election of judges to the Thirty-Second Judicial District Court
Sponsor: Randal Gaines
Provides for electronic access of information of the office of the state fire marshal to certain entities
Sponsor: Cedric Glover
Provides relative to probation and parole violations
Sponsor: John Morris
Provides for a five-year DROP period. (6/30/18) (OR INCREASE APV)
Sponsor: John Milkovich
Provides relative to riverboat gaming operations on the portion of the Ouachita River lying within the boundary of the Southside Economic Development District
Sponsor: Marcus Hunter
Makes supplemental appropriations for Fiscal Year 2017-2018
Sponsor: Walt Leger
Changes the threshold amount for construction management at risk projects
Sponsor: Kirk Talbot
Provides for the prosecution of officer-involved incidents
Sponsor: Denise Marcelle
Provides relative to the suspension of child support obligations for persons who are incarcerated
Sponsor: John Morris
Provides relative to school crisis management and response plans
Sponsor: Katrina Jackson-Andrews
Provides relative to eligibility for reentry court for persons convicted of certain offenses. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Dan Claitor
Provides relative to the moratorium on licensure of level 4 adult residential care providers
Sponsor: Bob Hensgens
Provides relative to justices of the peace and constables in Webster Parish
Sponsor: Eugene Reynolds
Requires the governor to review all cooperative endeavors with the Saints and Pelicans and authorizes him to renegotiate the agreements
Sponsor: Beryl Amedee
Provides relative to conditions for charging the employer's experience-rating account for unemployment benefits. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Dan Morrish
Provides relative to customary and reasonable fees paid by appraisal management companies
Sponsor: Thomas Carmody
Extends the termination date of law authorizing recommendation or prescription of medical marijuana
Sponsor: Vincent Pierre
Provides relative to incarcerated women. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Authorizes the state Dept. of Education and the Dept. of Health to survey students regarding certain risk behavior associated with chronic health conditions
Sponsor: Patricia Smith
Provides relative to per diems for the Port of South Louisiana Commission
Sponsor: Randal Gaines
Provides for reinstatement of driving while intoxicated hardship license by court order
Sponsor: Marcus Hunter
Creates the Internet and Social Media Data Protection Act
Sponsor: John Morris
Requires permits for timber hauling
Sponsor: Jack McFarland
Creates the crime of illegally purchasing or selling a firearm
Sponsor: Gary Carter
Requires the Department of Revenue to annually report certain tax expenditure information (OR NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Robert Johnson
Provides for early voting on Sunday (OR INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Gary Carter
Prohibits the restriction of access to roads that are adjacent to levees
Sponsor: Sam Jones
Dedicates any new revenue realized as a result of the enactment of legislation relative to sports betting and other forms of gaming to the La. Early Childhood Education Fund (OR DECREASE GF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Stephanie Hilferty
Provides relative to cell phone charges when provider discontinues service by error. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: R. Bret Allain
Establishes an informed choice in long-term care pilot program at the Northeast Delta Human Services Authority for Louisiana citizens vulnerable to nursing home admission. (8/1/18) (OR +$1,401,916 GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: John Milkovich
Provides relative to the brewing and sale of alcoholic beverages. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Troy Carter
Provides relative to sex education instruction in public schools (OR SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)
Sponsor: Patricia Smith
Revises the process for appointments to the Morgan City Harbor and Terminal District
Sponsor: Sam Jones
Provides relative to the Teche-Vermilion Fresh Water District
Sponsor: Stuart Bishop
Requires vapor recovery systems at service stations
Sponsor: Robert Shadoin
Provides an insurance premium discount for members of the Louisiana National Guard who have not been activated. (8/1/18) (EG -$1,100,000 GF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Eddie Lambert
Provides for a statewide referendum election on sports wagering as an authorized form of gaming. (See Act) (EG INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Daniel Martiny
Requires the state inspector general to investigate certain cases
Sponsor: Dustin Miller
Constitutional amendment to provide for consideration of certain matters during regular sessions in even-numbered years. (2/3 - CA3s2(A))
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Provides relative to powers of the governor during times of a disaster or emergency. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Ryan Gatti
Commends the Holy Cross School robotics team on winning the 2018 Louisiana state robotics championship
Sponsor: Lowell Hazel
Provides relative to the renewal of concealed handgun permits. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Gary Smith
Provides relative to probation and the defendant's eligibility to earn compliance credits or early termination (EG INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Sherman Mack
Expresses condolences on the death of Mark Anthony "Tony" Holtzclaw
Sponsor: Robert Shadoin
Provides relative to the credit a defendant receives for time served while on probation when probation is revoked
Sponsor: Sherman Mack
Expresses condolences on the death of Joseph Cornelius "Cocie" Rathborne, III
Sponsor: Patrick Connick
Dedicates a portion of certain state funds into the Louisiana Early Childhood Education Fund
Sponsor: Gary Carter
Commends John DeSantis for his authorship of The Thibodaux Massacre
Sponsor: Jerome Richard
Commends the athletes and coaches of the Lutcher High School girls' powerlifting team on winning the 2018 Division II state championship
Sponsor: Clay Schexnayder
Provides relative to the payment of restitution to the victim of a crime. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Dan Claitor
Commends Irene Harrison Burrus on the occasion of her ninety-fifth birthday
Sponsor: Gary Carter
Commends the Holden Lady Rockets girls' basketball team on winning the 2018 Class B state championship
Sponsor: Sherman Mack
Provides relative to the membership of the board of commissioners of an economic development district in certain municipalities. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Francis Thompson
Provides relative to parole violations
Sponsor: Ken Brass
Defines inactive well and provides for the powers and duties of the commissioner of conservation. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: R. Bret Allain
Decreases the minimum number of applicants required for the issuance of the United States Merchant Marine Academy special prestige license plate
Sponsor: Julie Stokes
Provides relative to MFP expenditures and reporting of certain education-related expenditure data. (gov sig) (OR INCREASE LF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Beth Mizell
Provides for public water supply testing by public water systems (OR +$34,467,204 GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Marcus Hunter
Requires that levels of THC be carefully monitored in order to ensure optimal therapeutic values for medicines produced from any lawfully cultivated Cannabis plants. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Yvonne Dorsey-Colomb
Provides for reduction of investment fees and allocation of savings. (6/30/18) (OR INCREASE APV)
Sponsor: John Milkovich
Provides relative to facility air quality monitoring
Sponsor: Katrina Jackson-Andrews
Provides for the electronic notice of certain workers' compensation information
Sponsor: Lawrence Bagley
Establishes parent-taught driver education
Sponsor: Beryl Amedee
Recognizes March 28, 2018, as National Federation of Independent Business/Louisiana Small Business Day at the capitol
Sponsor: Jack McFarland
Shortens the period between the close of registration records and an election
Sponsor: Gary Carter
Removes prohibition on the disbursement of state appropriated funds for the support of any privately provided for profit nutrition program administered by the state Department of Education
Sponsor: Kirk Talbot
Designates March as Endometriosis Awareness month in Louisiana
Sponsor: Helena Moreno
Increases individual sewage fees imposed by the office of public health (EG +$537,850 SG RV See Note)
Sponsor: Joseph Stagni
Provides for exemplary damages when injuries are caused by a driver operating a motor vehicle while using a wireless telecommunications device
Sponsor: Gregory Miller
Provides relative to the collateral source rule
Sponsor: Major Thibaut
Provides relative to the special campaign finance reports due within the period beginning twenty days prior to the election
Sponsor: Gregory Miller
Recognizes March 26, 2018, as United Way Women United Day at the state capitol and commends Women United for its dedication to the advancement of early childhood care and education
Sponsor: Walt Leger
Provides relative to qualified health plan prescription drug coverage. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Fred Mills
Creates a penalty for the registration of certain motor vehicles
Sponsor: John Guinn
Commends Younne Anthony Reid, head coach of Southern University at New Orleans' women's track and field team, on being named Coach of the Year for the NAIA Southern Region 2018 Indoor Track and Field season
Sponsor: Barbara Carpenter
Commends retired Brigadier General Robert Joseph LeBlanc for World War II service that is being awarded a Congressional Gold Medal
Sponsor: Bob Hensgens
Recognizes the forty-fourth anniversary of the ratification of the Constitution of Louisiana of 1974 and commends the delegates for their extraordinary public service to the state
Sponsor: Taylor Barras
Provides for the creation of multiparish taxing districts for the purpose of funding highway improvements
Sponsor: Stephen Carter
Provides for specific procedures before a motor vehicle can be immobilized by a municipality for unpaid fines. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Commends the Summerfield High School boys' basketball team, 2017-2018 Class C state champions
Sponsor: Patrick Jefferson
Provides relative to the recovery of child support payments in certain circumstances
Sponsor: Katrina Jackson-Andrews
Allows certain peace officers, with the approval of the principal, to patrol schools. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Ryan Gatti
Establishes a temporary dedication of a portion of certain revenues available under the Uniform Unclaimed Property Act for purposes of the Comite River Diversion Canal project (OR -$20,000,000 GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Valarie Hodges
Provides relative to security deposits for residential leases
Sponsor: Katrina Jackson-Andrews
Provides relative to safety belts. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Sharon Hewitt
Provides for an appropriation to the account of the Lafourche Parish School Board for Fiscal Year 2017-2018
Sponsor: Beryl Amedee
Provides for use of restraints in juvenile court proceedings. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Recognizes March 28, 2018, as Southern University Day at the state capitol
Sponsor: Barbara Carpenter
Constitutional Amendment to abolish the Board of Regents and the postsecondary management boards and transfer their powers, duties, functions, and responsibilities to a newly created Board of Trustees for Postsecondary Education. (2/3-CA13sl(A)) (EG INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Conrad Appel
Provides relative to plumbing regulations
Sponsor: Thomas Carmody
Provides relative to the availability of certain seating in restaurant establishments
Sponsor: Stuart Bishop
Commends Brayden Aime for receiving a perfect composite score of 36 on the ACT
Sponsor: Clay Schexnayder
Provides relative to concealed carry on college campuses
Sponsor: Julie Emerson
Provides relative to violations of probation and parole. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Michael Walsworth
Prohibits the Amite River Basin Drainage and Water Conservation District from establishing a trust to provide health benefits to its retired employees. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Mack White
Exempts taxing authorities in Lafayette Parish from certain public notice requirements regarding increases or renewals of property taxes which requirements are in excess of general requirements for public notices as provided in the open meetings law (OR NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Stuart Bishop
Provides relative to employee and employer contributions under certain circumstances. (6/30/18) (OR INCREASE APV)
Sponsor: Mack White
Provides relative to sales of property adjudicated to a local government for nonpayment of property taxes (OR SEE FISC NOTE LF RV)
Sponsor: Sam Jones
Provides for the number of members on the Lafourche Parish School Board. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Norby Chabert
Provides with respect to the payment of certain employees in certain riverboat gaming facilities. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Edward Price
Commends Southern University women's basketball coach Sandy Pugh on being named 2018 SWAC Coach of the Year
Sponsor: Barbara Carpenter
Provides relative to benefits for hearing loss
Sponsor: Patrick Connick
Designates April 4, 2018, as Nelson Chapel A.M.E. Church Day in the Louisiana House of Representatives
Sponsor: Chad Brown
Provides relative to the licensing of foreign and alien insurers
Sponsor: Vincent Pierre
Acknowledges zydeco music as a cultural asset and recognizes Zydeco Wine
Sponsor: Vincent Pierre
Commends Mr. and Mrs. Joseph James Cyprien, Sr., on their fiftieth wedding anniversary
Sponsor: Vincent Pierre
Provides relative to the deferment of and exemption from payment of court costs by the state and its political subdivisions (OR INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Denise Marcelle
Provides relative to prohibitions and limitations on forest activities and the transportation of harvested timber
Sponsor: Jack McFarland
Provides relative to persons convicted of certain terrorism offenses
Sponsor: Stephanie Hilferty
Commends the East Ascension High School Lady Spartans basketball team on winning the LHSAA Class 5A state championship.
Sponsor: Edward Price
Express condolences upon the death of Matthew Burroughs.
Sponsor: Ryan Gatti
Expresses condolences on the death of Patrick J. Huval.
Sponsor: Fred Mills
Commends Danny Broussard, head basketball coach at St. Thomas More Catholic High School, on being inducted into the LHSBCA Hall of Fame.
Sponsor: Jonathan Perry
To commend Shirley Ann Unangst on the occasion of her birthday.
Sponsor: Neil Riser
Commends Danny Broussard, head coach of the St. Thomas More Catholic High School basketball team, on having reached 900 career wins.
Sponsor: Patrick Cortez
Recognizes the 45th anniversary of the Constitutional Convention of 1973 and commends the framers of the resulting Louisiana Constitution for their extraordinary public service to the state.
Sponsor: John Alario
Prohibits employers from requiring prospective employees to disclose wage information. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Provides relative to the Department of Transportation and Development. (See Act)
Sponsor: Patrick Cortez
Provides for the expiration of Class "D" and "E" drivers' licenses on a person's twenty-first birthday (RE INCREASE SG RV See Note)
Sponsor: John Stefanski
Provides relative to the collection and sharing of certain student information
Sponsor: Stephen Carter
Commends Younne Anthony Reid for his accomplishments as head track coach at Southern University at New Orleans.
Sponsor: Wesley Bishop
Commends Sandy Pugh for her accomplishments as basketball coach for Southern University.
Sponsor: Wesley Bishop
Recognizes Wednesday, March 28, 2018, as Southern University Day at the state capitol.
Sponsor: Wesley Bishop
Provides an exemption for highways designated in honor of military personnel, law enforcement officers, and firefighters killed in the line of duty
Sponsor: Terry Brown
Authorizes the La. Tax Commission to establish a statewide homestead exemption audit program (RE SEE FISC NOTE SD RV See Note)
Sponsor: Julie Stokes
Requires agencies to provide specified information to the legislature upon request
Sponsor: John Morris
Provides for an increase in the state minimum wage. (2/3 - CAs2.1)(8/1/18)
Sponsor: Troy Carter
Requires that any contractor who enters into a contract with a state entity comply with the Louisiana Equal Pay for Women Act. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Commends Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated upon the celebration of its one hundred eleventh anniversary as an organization and designates April 24, 2018, as Alpha Phi Alpha Day at the Louisiana State Capitol.
Sponsor: Wesley Bishop
Commends the 2018 Prudential Spirit of Community Award winners.
Sponsor: Michael Walsworth
Requests the House and Governmental Affairs and Senate and Governmental Affairs committees to meet and function as a joint committee to study the use of technology in Louisiana's elections
Sponsor: Walt Leger
Provides for certain deadlines for treatment and appeals pursuant to the medical treatment schedule
Sponsor: Randal Gaines
Requires that any contractor who enters into a contract with a public entity comply with the Louisiana Equal Pay for Women Act
Sponsor: Joseph Bouie
Establishes a state minimum wage rate (OR INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Joseph Bouie
Provides for licensure of genetic counselors (OR INCREASE SG EX See Note)
Sponsor: Julie Stokes
Provides for the Dedicated Fund Review Subcommittee of the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget and submission and approval of plans related to special funds and dedications (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Rick Edmonds
Provides for a single preferred drug list in Medicaid managed care (EG INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Kenny Cox
Creates a task force to study certain policies of the Baton Rouge Police Department
Sponsor: Edward James
Provides with respect to the casino operating contract (EG +$3,600,000 SD RV See Note)
Sponsor: Jimmy Harris
Provides relative to the disposal of unclaimed property seized in connection with criminal investigations of municipal police departments
Sponsor: Michael Danahay
Establishes the Occupational Licensing Review Act. (7/1/18)
Sponsor: Francis Thompson
Repeals the seventy-two-hour waiting period before performing a marriage ceremony
Sponsor: Julie Emerson
Provides relative to suits against the state and state officials and employees. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Jonathan Perry
Provides relative to ownership of immovable property by foreign partnerships
Sponsor: Raymond Garofalo
Provides relative to the allocation of incarcerated persons for the purposes of all redistricting by the legislature (EG INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Patricia Smith
Establishes the Occupational Licensing Review Act
Sponsor: Julie Emerson
Relative to the disposition of property with respect to certain waterways
Sponsor: Gregory Miller
Commends U.S. Congressman Steven Joseph Scalise upon his induction into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame.
Sponsor: Michael Walsworth
Designates Wednesday, March 21, 2018, as School-Based Health Care Awareness Day in Louisiana.
Sponsor: Wesley Bishop
Commends Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. and recognizes Thursday, March 23, 2018, as the thirty-fourth annual Red and White Day at the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana.
Sponsor: Karen Peterson
Increases time period that publishers have to respond to textbook reviews and provides relative to the local purchase of textbooks not reviewed by the the state Dept. of Education
Sponsor: Eugene Reynolds
Provides relative to bail bond premium fees in certain parishes (OR INCREASE LF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Denise Marcelle
Expresses condolences upon the death of Reverend Billy Graham, known as "America's pastor".
Sponsor: John Milkovich
Commends Bossier Parish School for Technology and Innovative Learning (BPSTIL) on being named a 2017 World-Leading Learner.
Sponsor: Ryan Gatti
Commends Anna Claire Lemoine, Miss Spirit of the Ouachita's Outstanding Teen 2018
Sponsor: Frank Hoffmann
Provides relative to the delivery of alcoholic beverages. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Dan Morrish
Commends Brigadier General Robert Joseph Leblanc on being awarded the Congressional Gold Medal.
Sponsor: Jonathan Perry
Recognizes Wednesday, March 21, 2018, as Forum 35 Day.
Sponsor: Mack White
Commends the Holden High School Lady Rockets on winning the LHSAA Class B girls basketball championship.
Sponsor: Dale Erdey
Commends, posthumously, former Jefferson Parish Sheriff Harry Lee for his contributions to the parish and the state of Louisiana.
Sponsor: John Alario
Expresses condolences upon the death of Emilie Michelle Gibson.
Sponsor: Barrow Peacock
Commends Vicki's School of Dance on its 47th anniversary.
Sponsor: Ryan Gatti
Commends Bossier Parish on the occasion of its 175th anniversary.
Sponsor: Ryan Gatti
Provides that the positions of police chief and deputy police chief in the city of Baton Rouge are in the unclassified service
Sponsor: Edward James
To provide for the confidentiality of certain risk management information in early learning centers. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Beth Mizell
Commends Ready Louisiana and recognizes March 26, 2018, as Early Education Day at the state capitol.
Sponsor: John Alario
Expresses condolences on the death of Paul Marion Toce Sr.
Sponsor: Gerald Boudreaux
Expresses sincere and heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of Thomas Milton "Tom" Benson on the occasion of his passing.
Sponsor: John Alario
Provides relative to the possession, transfer, registration, license to possess, and surrender of an assault weapon
Sponsor: Terry Landry
Recognizes March 21, 2018, as Stop the Bleed Day at the Louisiana State Capitol.
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Commends Thomas H. Lillie on his many accomplishments.
Sponsor: Fred Mills
Commends Brammer Engineering, Inc. upon the celebration of its 50th anniversary.
Sponsor: Ryan Gatti
Commends Kevin John Melancon on his numerous outstanding accomplishments.
Sponsor: Patrick Cortez
Prohibits video and audio recordings of hearings by the Board of Pardons and committee on parole
Sponsor: Robert Billiot
Commends Kingston Elementary School on being named the 2017 elementary world archery champions.
Sponsor: Ryan Gatti
Commends the Geaux for the Gold With Purpose campaign at Loyola University for working to ensure that children with pediatric cancer have access to safe and effective treatment options.
Sponsor: Karen Peterson
Provides relative to the practice of telemedicine
Sponsor: Katrina Jackson-Andrews
Commends Anna Katherine Thompson, Miss Heart of Trenton's Outstanding Teen 2018
Sponsor: Frank Hoffmann
Commends Miss Louisiana 2017, Laryssa Bonacquisti
Sponsor: Frank Hoffmann
Commends Providence Classical Academy on the dedication of the Dr. Fred Lowery Library.
Sponsor: Ryan Gatti
Commends Benton Middle School for its third consecutive Middle School World Archery championship.
Sponsor: Ryan Gatti
Commends Summer Holloway on achieving a perfect score on the ACT.
Sponsor: Michael Walsworth
Commends First Baptist Church of Minden for its rich history and the faithful foundation upon which it was built.
Sponsor: Ryan Gatti
Commends The705 Young Professional Organization and recognizes Wednesday, March 21, 2018, as The705 Day at the Louisiana State Capitol.
Sponsor: Patrick Cortez
Expresses condolences on the death of Steve Shows.
Sponsor: Ryan Gatti
Changes the name of the Louisiana Workforce Commission to the Louisiana Department of Labor. (gov sig) (EG FF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Troy Carter
Commends Sunakshi Sharma for being named a Distinguished Finalist as one of the top youth volunteers in Louisiana for 2018, in the 23rd annual Prudential Spirit of Community Awards.
Sponsor: Francis Thompson
Recognizes and designates March 21, 2018, as Kick Butts Day in the Senate.
Sponsor: Conrad Appel
Recognizes March 20, 2018, as the Louisiana Community and Technical College System Workforce Experience Day at the state capitol.
Sponsor: Beth Mizell
Requests the New Orleans City Council to rename a portion of Higgins Boulevard as Johnny Jackson Jr. Boulevard to honor the memory of Johnny Jackson Jr., a former city councilman, state representative, and community leader.
Sponsor: Wesley Bishop
Commends Ricky E. Carter for twenty-five years of service as pastor of Good Hope Baptist Church.
Sponsor: Gerald Boudreaux
Commends Lawrence and Varrie Player for being the longest married couple in Louisiana.
Sponsor: Ryan Gatti
Removes Comite River and Bayou Manchac from the Louisiana Scenic Rivers Act. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Mack White
Recognizes May 12, 2018, as Louisiana Firefighters' Appreciation Day and commends all firefighters across the state for their dedication to public safety, and for their service to the citizens of Louisiana and the United States of America.
Sponsor: Ronnie Johns
Commends Charles Doerr Lancaster Jr. upon his induction into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame.
Sponsor: Michael Walsworth
Provides that the positions of police chief and deputy police chief in certain municipalities are in the unclassified service
Sponsor: Edward James
Recognizes March 22, 2018, as the thirty-fourth annual Red and White Day at the Louisiana Legislature
Sponsor: Edward James
Provides for the payment of refunded contributions to members of the Firefighters' Retirement System and for survivor benefits in certain circumstances (EG INCREASE APV)
Sponsor: Barry Ivey
Expresses condolences upon the death of William P. Black Sr. of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, known for his decades-long children's television persona, Buckskin Bill.
Sponsor: John Milkovich
Expresses condolences upon the death of Patricia R. Theunissen, wife of former Louisiana State Senator Jerry Theunissen.
Sponsor: Dan Morrish
Commends Bossier Sign Company, Inc. on its 50th anniversary.
Sponsor: Ryan Gatti
Provides relative to standards for Medicaid-funded substance use disorder treatment (OR INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Walt Leger
Commends Ana Deloach, Miss Heart of Trenton 2018
Sponsor: Frank Hoffmann
Posthumously commends Michael "Gro'-Mike" Francis Neck upon the dedication of Mike Neck Studios in his honor
Sponsor: Robert Johnson
Recognizes March 21, 2018, as Stop the Bleed Day at the Louisiana State Capitol.
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Provides relative to contracts for projects by the Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Prohibits forced arbitration in certain discrimination disputes
Sponsor: Robert Johnson
Requires oysters taken or sold to be "wholesome and marketable" and describes what qualifies as a "wholesome and marketable" oyster
Sponsor: Jerome Zeringue
Establishes a workforce training pilot initiative to serve public assistance recipients in certain parishes (OR SEE FISC NOTE)
Sponsor: Katrina Jackson-Andrews
Provides relative to the salary of the commissioner of the Twenty-Second Judicial District Court (OR +$41,500 LF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Malinda White
Requires a contractor for a state construction project to designate no less than two percent of man-hours in any apprenticeable occupation to registered apprentices. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Yvonne Dorsey-Colomb
Provides relative to take out service in certain municipalities. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Barrow Peacock
Provides relative to recovery of medical or healthcare expenses
Sponsor: Cameron Henry
Provides relative to the state medical assistance program
Sponsor: Jack McFarland
Enacts the Louisiana Employment Non-Discrimination Act. (See Act)
Sponsor: Troy Carter
Provides relative to the Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Designates March 19, 2018, as ExxonMobil Day at the legislature and commends ExxonMobil on their long-term contributions to the state of Louisiana
Sponsor: Edmond Jordan
Commends Horace Smith, Sr., on his eighty-ninth birthday
Sponsor: Dustin Miller
Commends Leadership Terrebonne and welcomes the 2018 class to the state capitol
Sponsor: Tanner Magee
Commends the Next Generation Pioneers for the group's community-building activities in Baton Rouge
Sponsor: Barbara Carpenter
Recognizes March 20, 2018, as Louisiana Community and Technical College System Workforce Experience Day at the state capitol
Sponsor: Charles Chaney
Commends the Simsboro High School boys' basketball team, 2018 Class B state champions
Sponsor: Patrick Jefferson
Commends Representative Blake Miguez on receiving The Daily Iberian's Top 20 Under 40 recognition
Sponsor: Taylor Barras
Recognizes March 27, 2018, as Alzheimer's Awareness Day at the state capitol
Sponsor: Beryl Amedee
Designates March 21, 2018, as School-Based Health Care Awareness Day in Louisiana
Sponsor: Stephen Carter
Designates June 2018 as Post-traumatic Stress Injury Awareness Month and Wednesday, June 27, 2018, as Post-traumatic Stress Injury Awareness Day in Louisiana
Sponsor: Frank Hoffmann
Commends Jesse Bernard Bilberry, Jr., on his thirty-fourth anniversary as pastor of Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church
Sponsor: Edward James
Recognizes March 21, 2018, as World Down Syndrome Day at the state capitol
Sponsor: Thomas Carmody
Recognizes March 21, 2018, as Stop the Bleed Day at the capitol and commends the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Stop the Bleed campaign
Sponsor: Bernard LeBas
Commends the Brother Martin High School wrestling team upon winning the Division I state championship at the Allstate Sugar Bowl Louisiana High School Athletic Association State Championships
Sponsor: Polly Thomas
Expresses condolences on the death of Kim Joseph LeBlanc
Sponsor: Dustin Miller
Commends the Brother Martin junior high wrestling team upon winning the state championship
Sponsor: Polly Thomas
Expresses condolences on the death of Richard David
Sponsor: Chad Brown
Recognizes March 21, 2018, as Forum 35 Day at the state capitol and commends members of the organization
Sponsor: Patricia Smith
Recognizes Tuesday, March 13, 2018, as Louisiana Association of Health Plans Day at the state capitol
Sponsor: Frank Hoffmann
Designates Thursday, April 26, 2018, as FFA Day at the state capitol and commends the state officers of FFA
Sponsor: Clay Schexnayder
Commends the students of Newcomb College Institute for their extraordinary contributions to women-centered education and research
Sponsor: Helena Moreno
Designates Tuesday, May 22, 2018, as LSU AgCenter Day at the state capitol
Sponsor: Clay Schexnayder
Commends Bishop Henry Ballard, Jr., upon celebration of thirty years of ministry
Sponsor: Raymond Garofalo
Recognizes March 21, 2018, as Tobacco-Free Living Day in Louisiana
Sponsor: Patricia Smith
Commends Don Briggs upon his retirement as president of the Louisiana Oil and Gas Association
Sponsor: Stuart Bishop
Commends the Brother Martin junior varsity wrestling team upon winning the state championship
Sponsor: Polly Thomas
Prohibits former agency heads in the executive branch of state government from assisting persons, for compensation, with their former departments or any agency therein for a period of three years after public service
Sponsor: Patrick Connick
Provides for calling a limited constitutional convention for finance matters. (gov sig) (EG INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Troy Carter
Provides relative to liberative prescription
Sponsor: Walt Leger
Provides relative to the Governmental Ethics exceptions for certain physicians
Sponsor: Dustin Miller
Provides relative to examination of service providers to Louisiana state-chartered financial institutions. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Daniel Martiny
Provides relative to financial transactions attempting financial exploitation of certain adults. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Daniel Martiny
Provides relative to removal and prohibition authority of commissioner in response to certain officer or employee actions at financial institutions. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Daniel Martiny
Provides for a deduction of fees attributable to qualified wagers. (8/1/18) (EG SEE FISC NOTE GF RV)
Sponsor: Ronnie Johns
Prohibits a public body or official from filing suit against a person who has made a public records request
Sponsor: Raymond Garofalo
Provides relative to supervisory control of state banks. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Daniel Martiny
Provides relative to acquisition or change of control of state-chartered financial institutions or holding companies. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Daniel Martiny
Provides relative to online licensure verification for licensed practical nurses. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Francis Thompson
Appropriates funds for the payment of the judgment against the State of Louisiana, DOTD, in "Evelyn J. Menard v. Cox Communications Louisiana, Inc., et al."
Sponsor: Stephen Dwight
Provides relative to the Melrose Place Crime Prevention District
Sponsor: Denise Marcelle
Provides relative to electronic prescribing of noncontrolled legend drugs. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Eric LaFleur
Prohibits a manufacturer or wholesale distributor from engaging in unrestrained price increases in the sale of an essential off-patent or generic drug
Sponsor: Paul Hollis
Provides relative to capital outlay reform (RE DECREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Phillip DeVillier
Sets turkey hunting season dates
Sponsor: Kenneth Havard
Creates the State Commission on Prosecutorial Oversight and the Code of Prosecutorial Conduct
Sponsor: Denise Marcelle
Commends former Louisiana state Senator Bill Keith upon his support and endorsement of teaching creationism in public schools.
Sponsor: John Milkovich
Repeals provision authorizing the city of Kaplan's elected police chief to manage police personnel. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Jonathan Perry
Requires employers who receive economic development incentives from the state to designate no less than two percent of the man-hours in any apprenticeable occupation to registered apprentices for a new construction project or the expansion of an existing construction project. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Yvonne Dorsey-Colomb
Authorizes a rebate for first-time home buyers (EG -$15,000,000 GF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Paula Davis
Constitutional amendment to require local government approval of the industrial property tax exemption. (2/3 - CA13s1(A)) (EG SEE FISC NOTE LF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Provides for reproduction of public records from district attorney's offices
Sponsor: Reid Falconer
Provides relative to coastal use permits for work done to maintain drainage by levee and drainage districts
Sponsor: Bob Hensgens
Expresses condolences on the death of Cecile Landry Daigle.
Sponsor: Gerald Boudreaux
Expresses condolences on the death of Donald Usie.
Sponsor: Gerald Boudreaux
Provides relative to the Recreation and Park Commission for the Parish of East Baton Rouge
Sponsor: Barbara Carpenter
Constitutional amendment to provide, with certain exemptions, for a state minimum wage effective August 1, 2019. (2/3 - CA13sl(A)) (EG INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Troy Carter
Designates March 19, 2018, as ExxonMobil Day at the State Capitol and to commend ExxonMobil for its long-term contributions to the economy of the state of Louisiana.
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Expresses condolences on the passing of Dr. Sammie Wayne Cosper.
Sponsor: Gerald Boudreaux
Requires certain legislative committees to approve line of credit recommendations for nonstate entity projects (EG NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Kirk Talbot
Expresses sincere condolences to the family and friends of Harold Joseph Johnson Sr. on the occasion of his passing.
Sponsor: Gerald Boudreaux
Expresses condolences upon the death of former Judge Lewis Doherty III.
Sponsor: Dan Claitor
Prohibits public servants in state government from engaging in certain activities with public funds and assets (EG SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)
Sponsor: Kirk Talbot
Expresses condolences on the death of Judge Kaliste Saloom Jr.
Sponsor: Gerald Boudreaux
Creates the Louisiana Jury Study Task Force. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Commends Firestone Polymers, LLC in Lake Charles on the celebration of its 75th Anniversary.
Sponsor: Ronnie Johns
Expresses sincere and heartfelt condolences on the death of Edward Desselle.
Sponsor: Gerald Boudreaux
Commends Teurlings Catholic High School for winning the Division II state volleyball championship.
Sponsor: Gerald Boudreaux
Commends posthumously Corporal Edward Desselle for his bravery and service in the Montford Point Marines and honors him as a recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal.
Sponsor: Gerald Boudreaux
Commends Commander Gregory Reed Koepp II for his outstanding naval career and upon his service as commanding officer of the USS Colorado.
Sponsor: John Alario
Expresses condolences upon the death of George F. Ballard Jr.
Sponsor: Dan Claitor
Commends Ted Davidson, head football coach of the Acadiana High School Wreckin' Rams, on his retirement.
Sponsor: Patrick Cortez
Commends the Louisiana Federation of Republican Women and welcomes its members to the state capitol.
Sponsor: Sharon Hewitt
Expresses condolences on the death of Excell Terrell.
Sponsor: Gerald Boudreaux
Expresses condolences upon the death of James Barrett Benton.
Sponsor: Dan Claitor
Commends Hospice of Acadiana on thirty-five years of service to the people of Acadiana.
Sponsor: Gerald Boudreaux
Recognizes March 2018 as National Kidney Month.
Sponsor: Fred Mills
Expresses condolences on the passing of John Melvin "Rock" Lee.
Sponsor: Gerald Boudreaux
Expresses condolences upon the death of William "Billy" Patout III.
Sponsor: R. Bret Allain
Commends the St. Katharine Drexel Preparatory High School Yellow Jackets basketball team on winning its first Louisiana High School Athletic Association Division III state championship.
Sponsor: Karen Peterson
Requests the New Orleans City Council to rename a portion of Higgins Boulevard as Johnny Jackson Jr. Boulevard to honor the memory of Johnny Jackson Jr., a former city councilman, state representative, and community leader.
Sponsor: Wesley Bishop
Provides relative to qualified truck stop facility amenities. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Commends Ray Escuriex, Sr., named 2017 Citizen of the Year by The Daily Iberian
Sponsor: Taylor Barras
Expresses condolences upon the death of Irvin Robert "Bobby" Boudreaux
Sponsor: Beryl Amedee
Provides relative to the sale of raw milk by a farmer to a consumer
Sponsor: Malinda White
Commends the Central High School cheerleaders for winning the Large Varsity Non-Tumble Game Day Division at the National High School Cheerleading Championship
Sponsor: Valarie Hodges
Commends Justin Nijoka upon being named a National Merit Finalist
Sponsor: Valarie Hodges
Commends Live Oak High School for placing first in the National High School Cheerleading Championship
Sponsor: Valarie Hodges
Encourages closer economic relationship between the U.S. and the Republic of China (Taiwan) and the negotiation of a bilateral trade agreement between two countries
Sponsor: Patrick Connick
Creates a task force to study issues related to teacher shortages in Louisiana (OR NO IMPACT See Note)
Sponsor: Lawrence Bagley
Provides for changes relative to the Louisiana Commission on HIV, AIDS, and Hepatitis C
Sponsor: Patricia Smith
Repeals the provisions of the Sulphur Industrial Development District
Sponsor: Michael Danahay
Provides for the selection and authority of commissioners representing the state when a convention is called to propose amendments to the U.S. Constitution pursuant to Article V.
Sponsor: Patrick Cortez
Provides for incentive rebates under the Quality Jobs Program. (gov sig) (EG -$3,128,880 GF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Ronnie Johns
Adds public defenders to the Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System (OR INCREASE APV)
Sponsor: Katrina Jackson-Andrews
Memorializes Congress to address the deaf and hard of hearing provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Sponsor: Yvonne Dorsey-Colomb
Reduces the expenditure limit for FY 2018-2019 (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Barry Ivey
Establishes the Comite River Diversion Canal Fund as a special fund within the state treasury and dedicates proceeds of state sales of unclaimed noncash assets to the fund (OR -$4,000,000 GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Valarie Hodges
Provides relative to Gravity Drainage Districts in Calcasieu Parish
Sponsor: Dorothy Hill
Provides relative to the passage of the Capital Outlay Bill
Sponsor: Kirk Talbot
Provides relative to establishments that sell alcoholic beverages
Sponsor: Julie Stokes
Provides relative to speed cameras. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Troy Carter
Provides for unemployment data to be transmitted for economic research and occupational forcasting. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Gerald Boudreaux
Provides relative to uniformity in local administration of the industrial tax exemption program. (gov sig) (OR NO IMPACT LF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Patrick Cortez
Constitutional amendment to remove the separate metering requirement from the definition of water sold directly to the consumer for residential use. (2/3 - CA13s1(A)) (OR DECREASE GF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Barrow Peacock
Provides with respect to the casino operating contract. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Karen Peterson
Authorizes multiple decks of cards in the game of video draw poker. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Daniel Martiny
Designates the Cajun waltz as an official state dance. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Norby Chabert
Provides with respect to the hiring of special counsel by school boards
Sponsor: Nancy Landry
Provides for the revision of certain terminology in marriage law. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Authorizes and provides protection for the release of medical and biological material information to coroners during investigations
Sponsor: Franklin Foil
Modifies requirements for motor vehicles issued a certificate of destruction
Sponsor: Lawrence Bagley
Requires governmental entities that receive state funding to select Louisiana companies
Sponsor: Stephen Pugh
Resolves that a committee be appointed to act with a similar house committee to notify the governor that the legislature has convened and organized and is prepared to receive his communications.
Sponsor: Gerald Long
Provides relative to members of municipal fire and police civil service boards
Sponsor: Kenneth Havard
Eliminates the death penalty for offenses committed on or after August 1, 2018 (OR DECREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Terry Landry
(Constitutional Amendment) Dedicates revenue to fund the inspector general's office (OR -$2,000,000 GF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Julie Stokes
Requires legislative authorization for any waiver of SNAP work requirements for able-bodied adults without dependents (OR +$2,520,812 GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: John Morris
Authorizes public colleges and universities to enter into cooperative endeavor agreements with local police departments for the purpose of providing extra security on and around campus. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Yvonne Dorsey-Colomb
Provides for the disposition of the proceeds from the sale of unclaimed property noncash assets. (gov sig) (OR -$4,000,000 GF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Mack White
Provides relative to tenure for teachers and other school employees
Sponsor: Nancy Landry
Allows START distributions for K-12 expenses. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Increases the amount of supplemental pay for eligible law enforcement and fire protection officers (OR +$60,942,000 GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Sherman Mack
Increases small succession from $125,000 to $250,000. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Eddie Lambert
(Constitutional Amendment) Expands the type of property that may be forfeited and disposed of in a civil proceeding
Sponsor: Jerome Zeringue
Provides that any reference to an attorney made by a criminal suspect constitutes an invocation of the right to counsel. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Wesley Bishop
Authorizes three separate additional lottery games with proceeds from each dedicated to veterans, senior citizens, and persons with disabilities. (See Act) (OR +$4,100,000 GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Troy Carter
Revises license fee amounts for facilities and providers licensed by the Louisiana Department of Health (OR +$717,070 SG RV See Note)
Sponsor: Walt Leger
Requires DOE to have an administrative search warrant in order to access video recordings of early learning centers and registered child care providers. (gov sig) (OR SEE FISC NOTE FF EX)
Sponsor: Beth Mizell
Reduces the fines for failure to maintain compulsory motor vehicle liability security. (8/1/18) (OR SEE FISC NOTE SG RV)
Sponsor: Wesley Bishop
Provides relative to certain reports of coroners. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Dan Claitor
Provides relative to the Early Childhood Care and Education Network. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Conrad Appel
Provides for a minimum wage for certain tipped employees
Sponsor: Edmond Jordan
Provides relative to parole eligibility and rates for earning diminution of sentence for good behavior for persons convicted of a violent or sex offense (OR DECREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Patricia Smith
Provides relative to the seizure and forfeiture of property used in the course of, derived from, or realized through a pattern of racketeering activity
Sponsor: Jerome Zeringue
Provides and clarifies the right of law enforcement officers while under investigation. (gov sig)
Sponsor: John Milkovich
Resolves that a committee be appointed to notify the House of Representatives that the Senate has convened and organized and is prepared to transact business.
Sponsor: Gerald Long
Provides for work and community engagement requirements in the state Medicaid program
Sponsor: Lance Harris
Provides for delegation of authority for issuing notices of violation
Sponsor: Stuart Bishop
Provides relative to misstatements or suppression of facts in alcoholic beverage permits
Sponsor: Jimmy Harris
Provides an exception to the crime of illegal carrying of weapons for clerks of court and tax assessors
Sponsor: Terry Brown
Establishes a hybrid retirement benefit structure for members of the state retirement systems first hired on or after July 1, 2020 (OR INCREASE APV)
Sponsor: Barry Ivey
Provides relative to opportunities to promote work and community engagement among Medicaid recipients. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Sharon Hewitt
Provides relative to former agency head employment. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Fred Mills
Appropriates funds for payment of the judgment against the State of Louisiana, DOTD, in "Jean Boudreaux and the Victims of the Flood of April 6, 1983, on the Tangipahoa River v. State of La."
Sponsor: Stephen Pugh
Provides relative to the classified police service in the city of DeRidder
Sponsor: James Armes
Allows each public school governing authority to determine the education content standards and assessments to be used in the schools under its jurisdiction. (gov sig) (OR INCREASE LF EX See Note)
Sponsor: John Milkovich
Classifies cruelty to animals as a "crime of violence". (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Authorizes Sales Tax District No. 4 of Lafourche Parish to levy an additional sales tax (OR +$2,800,000 LF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Jerome Richard
Creates the crime of battery of a utility service employee. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Ryan Gatti
Provides that making a false report triggering a law enforcement response resulting in a person's death constitutes second degree murder. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Provides relative to the La. Competency-Based Education Program and the La. Education Assessment Program (LEAP) tests. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Conrad Appel
Provides that certain provisions of the Code of Governmental Ethics are applicable to judges. (gov sig) (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)
Sponsor: Conrad Appel
Authorizes a city or parish school board or a parish governing authority to discuss economic development projects in executive session. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Michael Walsworth
Imposes on the Public Retirement Systems' Actuarial Committee a fiduciary duty to the state and statewide retirement systems
Sponsor: Barry Ivey
Provides relative to participation of charter school employees in the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana (OR INCREASE APV)
Sponsor: Kevin Pearson
Provides relative to the post-service restrictions applicable to certain public servants
Sponsor: Patrick Connick
Invites the governor to address a joint session of the legislature on Monday, March 12, 2018, at 1:00 p.m.
Sponsor: Gerald Long
Allows START distributions for K-12 expenses. (8/1/18) (OR DECREASE GF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Conrad Appel
Provides for a limitation on investment portfolio allocation to alternative investments (OR NO IMPACT APV)
Sponsor: Barry Ivey
Provides relative to fees for pretrial programs in DeSoto Parish
Sponsor: Lawrence Bagley
Establishes the Louisiana Fiscal Transparency Website as a source of information for state expenditures (OR INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Barry Ivey
Provides for the incorporation of the Registrars of Voters Employees' Retirement Plan into the Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System (OR SEE ACTUARIAL NOTE)
Sponsor: Kevin Pearson
Provides that a search of the residence of a defendant on probation may be conducted by any probation officer assigned by the Department of Public Safety and Corrections to conduct the search. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Beth Mizell
Adds members to the Public Retirement Systems' Actuarial Committee
Sponsor: Barry Ivey
Provides relative to applications for post-conviction relief filed by persons who are sentenced to death (OR INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Stephen Dwight
Provides that if one business gets an advantage from the government, all businesses in the state receive the same advantage. (8/1/18) (OR DECREASE GF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Ryan Gatti
Provides for the Sparta Groundwater Conservation District
Sponsor: Robert Shadoin
Provides for calling a limited constitutional convention for fiscal purposes and preparations therefor (OR INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Franklin Foil
(Constitutional Amendment) Provides relative to a unanimous jury in felony cases
Sponsor: Edmond Jordan
(Constitutional Amendment) Provides relative to referendum elections on a proposition to allow new forms of gaming, gambling, or wagering
Sponsor: Kirk Talbot
Prohibits credit reporting agencies from imposing certain charges on consumers. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Michael Walsworth
Permits introduction of evidence at a criminal trial that another person committed the crime of which the defendant stands accused. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: John Milkovich
Constitutional amendment to authorize local taxing authorities to enter into cooperative endeavor agreements to negotiate stipulated tax payments of ad valorem taxes. (2/3-CA13s1(A)) (OR SEE FISC NOTE LF RV)
Sponsor: Michael Walsworth
Provides for implementation of a Medicaid managed long-term services and supports system (OR +$1,250,000 GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Tony Bacala
Provides for a Medicaid hospital payment methodology (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)
Sponsor: John Morris
Provides for exemption of expungement fees in certain circumstances (OR DECREASE SG RV See Note)
Sponsor: Edward James
Requires the La.Tax Commission to annually study the development of capitalization rates to be used in the appraisal of public service properties (OR NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Kenneth Havard
Provide relative to school safety. (gov sig)
Sponsor: John Milkovich
Provides relative to the exemption from seizure of certain retirement accounts
Sponsor: Franklin Foil
Provides relative to child support enforcement. (8/1/18) (OR INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Beth Mizell
Provides relative to the sale of alcoholic beverages
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Coussan
Provides relative to sick leave granted to school bus operators and other public school employees in certain instances
Sponsor: Dorothy Hill
Provides relative to the habitual offender law
Sponsor: Chad Brown
Authorizes law enforcement agencies to enforce laws and rules regarding the unlawful transportation of diseased animals or livestock or adulterated meat. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: W. Jay Luneau
Provide relative to the carrying of a concealed weapon into a school, school campus, or a school bus
Sponsor: Rogers Pope
Allows employers to receive reimbursement for the costs of employee criminal background checks when certain employees terminate employment in less than ninety days. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Barrow Peacock
Provides for privileges and default options for owners of self-service storage facilities. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Provides for definition of "motor carrier" in motor carrier transportation contracts. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Edward Price
Requires that the attorney general receive certain annual reports from the owners of self-service storage facilities. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Provides relative to the La. State Board of Medical Examiners (OR +$8,276,000 GF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Franklin Foil
Requires public postsecondary education management boards to establish policies for forgiveness of outstanding student fee balances of certain students who have resigned and seek reenrollment (OR DECREASE SG RV See Note)
Sponsor: Reid Falconer
Provides relative to fees for state health laboratory services
Sponsor: Frank Hoffmann
(Constitutional Amendment) Provides with respect to the classification and valuation of property for purposes of ad valorem taxation (OR SEE FISC NOTE LF RV)
Sponsor: Barry Ivey
(Constitutional Amendment) Phases-in increases in property tax after statewide reappraisals under certain circumstances (OR SEE FISC NOTE LF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Walt Leger
Prohibits a chartering authority from approving or renewing charters until the legislative auditor conducts certain performance audits. (gov sig) (OR INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Regina Barrow
Provides relative to waste tire program fees. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Michael Walsworth
Relative to special notice provisions for meetings of local governments involving changes to ad valorem or sales and use taxes
Sponsor: Stuart Bishop
Provides relative to the operation of a Type 2 charter school. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Gerald Boudreaux
Provides relative to certain limitation on recovery of medical claims. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Barrow Peacock
Provides for mediation of the settlement of out-of-network health benefit claims involving balance billing
Sponsor: Kirk Talbot
Provides relative to the state's system of Medicaid-funded long-term care (OR +$28,255,109 GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Frank Hoffmann
Provides for the classification of and applicable fair market value percentages for property subject to ad valorem taxation (OR SEE FISC NOTE LF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Barry Ivey
Provides for the seizure of firearms of persons who pose a risk of imminent personal injury to self or others
Sponsor: Gary Carter
Provides that contracts for inmate telephone services must be awarded to the lowest bidder and prohibits the state from profiting from such contracts. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Wesley Bishop
Prohibits elementary and secondary schools that receive state funds from discriminating based on gender identity or sexual orientation. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Provides relative to tasks performed by direct service workers. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Sharon Hewitt
Provides relative to the Louisiana Board of Chiropractic Examiners. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Patrick Cortez
Exempts pulp and paper wastes from certain impoundment regulations
Sponsor: Jack McFarland
Provides relative to the Civil District Court for the parish of Orleans and domestic relations divisions. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell
Provides relative to a needs accommodation designation on a license plate
Sponsor: Frank Hoffmann
Provides relative to felony probation. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Ronnie Johns
Provides relative to the enforcement of support by income assignment
Sponsor: Paula Davis
Provides relative to maximum allowable drug pricing in the Medicaid pharmacy program. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: John Milkovich
Creates and provides for the Louisiana Medical Research Fund (OR INCREASE SD EX See Note)
Sponsor: Julie Stokes
Removes the average monthly fuel sales requirement for the operation of video draw poker devices. (8/1/18)
Sponsor: Troy Carter
Provides relative to phasing in ad valorem tax assessment increases under certain circumstances (OR SEE FISC NOTE LF RV See Note)
Sponsor: Walt Leger
Provides for hospital payment reform in the Medicaid program (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Polly Thomas
Requires state participation in the National Violent Death Reporting System
Sponsor: Edward James
Revises procedures relative to a student's inability to pay for school meals and a student's debt. (gov sig) (OR INCREASE LF EX See Note)
Sponsor: Dan Morrish
Prohibits the importation, manufacture, sale, purchase, possession, or transfer of a rapid-fire device
Sponsor: Patricia Smith
Provides for a referendum election in Tangipahoa Parish regarding riverboat gaming (OR SEE FISC NOTE)
Sponsor: Stephen Pugh
Provides relative to Medicaid financing of nursing home care (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)
Sponsor: Kirk Talbot
Provides relative to insurance claims for air ambulance services
Sponsor: Kirk Talbot
Changes the dedication of a portion of the truck and trailer fees collected in certain parishes and creates the Regional Maintenance and Improvement Fund (OR SEE FISC NOTE SD EX)
Sponsor: Patrick Connick
Requires that pharmacists report to certain parties when refills of certain psychiatric medications go undispensed
Sponsor: Lawrence Bagley
Provides for Senate confirmation of the state superintendent of education. (gov sig)
Sponsor: John Milkovich
Provides relative to Teacher Bill of Rights. (gov sig)
Sponsor: John Milkovich
Provides relative to the operation of a Type 2 charter school. (gov sig)
Sponsor: Gerald Boudreaux
Sponsors (12)
Passed (500)
Constitutional amendment to extend special assessment for, and exemptions for disabled veterans and their spouses, and for surviving spouses of military personnel, law enforcement and fire protection officers, and first responders from, ad valorem tax purposes on homesteads to apply to persons with usufruct when naked ownership is in trust. (2/3 - CA13s1(A)) (RE SEE FISC NOTE LF RV See Note)
Constitutional amendment to authorize the phase-in of increases in ad valorem taxation under certain circumstances. (2/3 - CA13s1(A)) (RE1 SEE FISC NOTE LF RV See Note)
Constitutional amendment to permit the donation of the use of public equipment and personnel to the state or a political subdivision. (2/3 - CA13s1) (EN SEE FISC NOTE See Note)
Constitutional amendment to require unanimous juries for felonies. (2/3 - CA13s1(A))
Constitutional amendment to remove authority to fund state police for traffic control from the Transportation Trust Fund. (2/3 - CA13s1(A)) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)
Constitutional amendment to provide for disqualification from seeking or holding an elective office. (2/3-CA13sl(A))
Prohibits disclosure by the registrar of voters, clerk of court, and Department of State of information that, if disclosed, may compromise the security of the state voter registration computer system and election management system
Extends the termination date of laws authorizing the recommendation or prescription of medical marijuana in the treatment of certain debilitating medical conditions
Provides for the transfer, deposit, and use of certain treasury funds (EG SEE FISC NOTE GF RV See Note)
Provides relative to threats of violence or terrorism at elementary and secondary schools, including investigation and reporting thereof and required mental health evaluations (EN INCREASE EX See Note)
Provides relative to emergency and disaster management
Provides for a hold on the renewal of an operator's license under certain circumstances (EN DECREASE SG RV See Note)
Provides relative to expungements
Provides for modifications to the standstill budget to include means of finance substitutions for discretionary and nondiscretionary requirements. (8/1/18) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Provides for the required reporting of certain revenue, exemptions, credits, rebates in the tax exemption budget and on LaTrac. (8/1/18) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Provides relative to the authorization for therapeutic use of marijuana
Requires certain state agencies to install internet filters to block content which is sexually explicit, pornographic, or sexually harassing. (8/1/18) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Provides relative to the Military Service Relief Act. (8/1/18)
Provides relative to appellate panels. (8/1/18)
Changes certain TOPS initial eligibility requirements and provides relative to the sharing of certain student data. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Authorizes payments funded by the system experience account to certain retirees and beneficiaries. (2/3 - CA 10s29(F)) (6/30/18) (EG $5,163,742 APV)
Provides relative to caller ID spoofing. (8/1/18)
Requires district offices of the Department of Transportation and Development to publish on the internet information regarding construction and maintenance work within the district. (8/1/18) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)
Provides relative to foster care children in high school. (gov sig) (EN +$961,264 GF EX See Note)
Provides with respect to the Office of Group Benefits. (8/1/18) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV See Note)
Provides relative to Fetal Organ Whistleblower Account. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD RV See Note)
Provides relative to confidentiality of certain taxpayer information concerning Medicaid eligibility. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Creates the crime of government benefits fraud (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Provides for certain insurance benefits for firemen and law enforcement officers who suffer a catastrophic injury resulting in permanent and total disability caused by an individual with the specific intent to kill an officer while the fireman or officer is engaged in the performance of his official duties. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Revises definition of "children" in the Children's Code. (gov sig)
Provides relative to disciplinary hearings by professional and occupational licensing boards and commissions. (8/1/18) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV See Note)
Provides for certain funds in the state treasury and the powers, duties, functions, and responsibilities of the Dedicated Fund Review Subcommittee of the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget. (See Act) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF RV See Note)
Provides relative to early release of offenders for "good time" and parole. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Abolishes boards and commissions, authorities, districts, and like entities that are inactive. (8/1/18) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Provides relative to felony probation. (See Act)
Provides for the comprehensive Capital Outlay budget
Requires reporting of data on healthcare provider claims submitted to Medicaid managed care organizations
Provides relative to capital outlay oversight process. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Provides for penalties for persons convicted for soliciting prostitutes. (8/1/18)
Provides relative to the Medicaid Pharmaceutical and Therapeutics Committee. (8/1/18)
Provides relative to the composition of charter school boards in certain parishes. (gov sig)
Provides relative to free expression on college campuses. (gov sig)
Provides relative to withdrawal of candidates. (gov sig) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Provides relative to death certificates. (1/1/19)
Defines abortion and feticide as "crimes of violence". (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Provides relative to school employee participation in student-initiated prayer. (gov sig)
Provides relative to the collection and reporting of certain data regarding students with exceptionalities. (gov sig) (EG1 NO IMPACT GF RV See Note)
Provides relative to the Medicaid Subcommittee of the Health and Social Services Estimating Conference. (gov sig) (EG NO IMPACT See Note)
Adds former members of the legislature to the list of persons who are excepted from the crime of illegal carrying of weapons
Provides relative to the special assessment level for, and exemptions for disabled veterans and their spouses, and for surviving spouses of military personnel, law enforcement and fire protection officers, and first responders from, ad valorem tax purposes on homesteads when naked ownership is in trust. (See Act) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF RV See Note)
Provides for military surplus motor vehicles. (8/1/18)
Provides relative to funding for waiver services for individuals with developmental disabilities. (8/1/18) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)
Re-creates the Department of State and the statutory entities made a part of the department by law. (6/30/18)
Requires public safety telecommunicators who provide dispatch for emergency medical conditions be trained in the delivery of telephone CPR. (8/1/18)
Creates the Empowering Families to Live Well Louisiana Act. (gov sig) (REF SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)
Provides relative to the regulation of pharmacy benefit managers (RE NO IMPACT See Note)
Authorizes nursing home residents or their legal representatives to have monitoring devices installed in those residents' rooms (RE SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Provides relative to motor vehicles and auto hulk sold as scrap for dismantling (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Provides relative to prescription drug pricing. (8/1/18) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Provides for benefits for certain members of the Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System totally and permanently disabled in the line of duty by an intentional act of violence (EN INCREASE APV)
Provides for instruction on threats to school safety in public schools and public postsecondary education institutions (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)
Requires reporting, policies, and education on hazing
Provides relative to the failure to seek medical assistance when reckless behavior results in serious bodily injury (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Provides relative to behavioral health services providers. (gov sig) (EG1 NO IMPACT See Note)
Amends penalties relative to the crime of hazing (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Provides relative to registration and voting by a person convicted of a felony (EN +$66,698 GF EX See Note)
Creates the crime of negligent arson. (gov sig)
Creates the Early Childhood Care and Education Commission and pilot programs for community early childhood care and education networks (RE SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Provides relative to information and access to breast reconstructive surgery. (gov sig)
Provides relative to conveyance devices (EN INCREASE SD RV See Note)
Provides relative to the Nurse Licensure Compact. (gov sig) (EG2 INCREASE SG EX See Note)
Provides relative to the composition of the La. State Board of Medical Examiners and investigations of physicians conducted by the board
Provides relative to free parking for disabled veterans at airports
Provides relative to powers of crime prevention districts
Authorizes certain parish tourism commissions to levy a hotel occupancy tax and overnight campsite parking tax to be distributed pursuant a cooperative endeavor agreement with the economic development authority. (7/1/18) (EN INCREASE LF RV See Note)
Requires the collection and reporting of information regarding inmate participation in certain work programs
Increases boat registration fees
Provides ethics exceptions to allow a public servant of a political subdivision, his immediate family members, or related legal entities to enter into specified transactions under the supervision or jurisdiction of the agency of the public servant under certain circumstances
Provides relative to the Major Events Incentive Program Fund and Louisiana Economic Development (EG1 SEE FISC NOTE GF RV See Note)
Provides relative to the reemployment of retirees of the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana (EN INCREASE APV)
Provides for access to behavioral health services providers in schools
Requires age and work status verification prior to work in a sexually oriented business to prevent human trafficking
Authorizes each public and nonpublic school governing authority to adopt a policy relative to the supply and administration of naloxone and other opioid antagonists
Provides for the membership of the Louisiana Deferred Compensation Commission (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Authorizes the levy, collection, and distribution of an additional hotel and motel tax of one percent by the Southwest Louisiana Convention and Visitors Bureau. (gov sig)
Requires notification by bed and breakfast businesses that rooms are under film surveillance
Authorizes public institutions of higher education, when licensed, to conduct raffles. (8/1/18)
Provides relative to the Consolidated Local Government Public Finance Act. (See Act) (EN NO IMPACT LF EX See Note)
Provides relative to definition of vapor products
Provides relative to the educational requirements of the ATC Responsible Vendor Program for bartenders, servers, and security personnel (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Provides relative to literacy screenings for students (EN INCREASE LF EX See Note)
Provides for electronic prescribing of noncontrolled legend drugs. (8/1/18)
Creates the Louisiana Jobs Now Fund for the purpose of funding postsecondary education degree and certificate production in high-demand fields (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)
Provides relative to the membership and quorum of the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board
Changes eligibility requirements for the Quality Jobs Program for employers in parishes with relatively low per capita income (RE NO IMPACT GF RV See Note)
Amends the criminal sentences and fines for convictions of pornography involving juveniles (EN INCREASE LF RV See Note)
Provides relative to foreign language immersion programs in public schools (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)
Provides relative to the observation or filming of a person and the disclosure of certain images of a person
Provides relative to membership on the Capital Area Groundwater Conservation District board of commissioners
Provides with respect to financial security for survivors of federal law enforcement officers (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Provides for the acquisition of blighted property in certain municipalities. (gov sig)
Provides relative to parole eligibility. (11/1/18)
Provides relative to non-gaming supplier permits (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD RV See Note)
Authorizes the commissioner of insurance to apply for a state innovation waiver to establish and implement a reinsurance program
Requires those who serve temporary protective orders or protective orders to transmit a service return to the Louisiana Protective Order Registry
Requires exhaustion of all other available coverage
Registration of non-motorized house boats (EN INCREASE SD RV See Note)
Transfers the responsibilities of the Atchafalaya Basin Research and Promotion Board and the Atchafalaya Basin Program from within the Department of Natural Resources to the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority. (7/1/18) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)
Provides relative to testing for lead in drinking water (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX See Note)
Provides relative to reports required of the executive branch by statute or resolution. (7/1/18) (EN NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)
Prohibits the transportation of live feral swine (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF RV See Note)
Establishes the Occupational Board Compliance Act (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Defines "economic development project" for purposes of a late approval recommendation from the secretary of the Dept. of Economic Development (EN NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)
Provides with respect to the Office of Group Benefits. (8/1/18) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Provides relative to the certification and employment in schools of certain persons convicted of felony offenses and the assessment of civil fines against public school boards who hire certain persons
Provides relative to the carrying of a concealed handgun at a school
Provides relative to placements minor's funds from a judgment or settlement. (8/1/18)
Provides relative to death investigation documents
Provides relative to tax sales and post-sale notice. (8/1/18) (EN NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)
Provides relative to a mental health evaluation upon the issuance of a protective order in domestic abuse cases
Creates and provides for the Dairy Stabilization Study Commission. (8/1/18)
Requires public school boards to notify certain school bus operators of route vacancies by certified mail
Establishes the Occupational Licensing Review Act
Provides relative to responsive verdicts (EN NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)
Provides for the annual amount of retirement allowance for members of the Registrars of Voters Employees' Retirement System (EN SEE ACTUARIAL NOTE APV)
Provides relative to the Louisiana Licensed Professional Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors Board of Examiners
Requires the division of administration to establish, maintain, and make public, a list of unpaid outstanding final tort judgments against the state (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Prohibits medical treatment furlough to any offender serving a sentence for a conviction of first degree murder. (8/1/18)
Provides relative to the direct shipment of wine. (8/1/18)
Provides relative to the Upper Audubon Security District in Orleans Parish
Provides for out-of-state automobile insurance coverage. (8/1/18)
Provides relative to group insurance expenses for certain clerks of court. (8/1/18)
Provides relative to the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Law (EN NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)
Removes the limitation on the number of expungements a person may receive for persons seeking an expungement under certain circumstances
Provides that public entities are liable for interest due for failure to pay progressive stage or final payments on public contracts under certain conditions. (8/1/18) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)
Provides relative to sharing of student information with certain postsecondary education institutions conducting academic research
Provides relative to the transfer of purse funds from one horse racing facility to another. (See Act)
Provides relative to student discipline. (gov sig)
Creates a program for education savings accounts for tuition expenses for elementary and secondary schools (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Provides relative to unauthorized entry of and criminal damage to a critical infrastructure
Increases the salary of the marshal of the City Court of Natchitoches. (gov sig)
Modifies requirements for obtaining a commercial driver's license when an applicant is employed in a specific military position
Provides relative to procedures for HIV testing in cases of possible exposure in certain healthcare settings and emergency situations
Requires companies who sell DNA testing kits to inform a purchaser of certain information. (8/1/18)
Provides for the establishment of airboat trails on wildlife management areas
Provides relative to maternity and adoptive leave for teachers (EN INCREASE LF EX See Note)
Appropriates funds for the expenses of the judiciary for Fiscal Year 2018-2019
Makes supplemental appropriations for Fiscal Year 2017-2018
Provides relative to video poker. (8/1/18)
Makes appropriations for the expenses of the legislature for Fiscal Year 2018-2019
Allows for the use of the Budget Stabilization Fund for the state costs associated with a declared disaster (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)
Provides relative to motor vehicle service contracts
Provides relative to the practice of chiropractic
Provides relative to local sales taxes in Lafourche Parish (EN +$2,800,000 LF RV See Note)
Revises the Parents' Bill of Rights for Public Schools
Increases the waste tire disposal fee applicable to passenger and light truck tires (EN +$1,144,363 SD RV See Note)
Provides relative to the authorized uses of inmate labor
Makes revisions to the Louisiana Election Code
Provides relative to emergency medical services transporting patients to alternative destinations. (8/1/18)
Provides for licensure of genetic counselors (RE INCREASE SG EX See Note)
Provides relative to limitations on certain changes to precinct boundaries during certain times
Provides relative to the authority of the secretary of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections to appoint special agents
Provides relative to the members of the board of commissioners of certain hospital service districts
Increases penalties for the crime of sexual assault of persons with infirmities and provides enhanced penalties under certain circumstances
Provides relative to prohibited acts by bail enforcement agents
Provides relative to emergency management
Exempts board members of certain neighborhood security and improvement districts from Tier 2.1 financial disclosure requirements
Provides for health insurance for the families of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty
Provides relative to the indemnification of clerks of court and their employees (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Provides relative to tax incentives granted by local governments for donations to local governments
Removes an ethics exception which allows a person to be employed by a board when the person has served as a member of the board as designee of a mayor of certain municipalities
Provides relative to the application of the habitual offender law
Provides for the regulation of the adoption of children
Modifies relative to transfers of interest and property disclosure forms
Provides relative to water system testing at certain businesses which apply for or hold retail food permits
Exempts specified personally identifying information related to reports of violations of student codes of conduct or other policies intended for the safety of students or employees of postsecondary education institutions from the Public Records Law
Provides relative to leases and subleases of land and buildings owned by a port, harbor, or terminal district
Provides relative to omnibus corporate filing regulations
Provides relative to the Judicial Council of the Supreme Court of Louisiana
Creates the TOPS Income Fund (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD RV See Note)
Provides for a voluntary fee on driver's license applications to benefit the Military Family Assistance Fund (EN INCREASE SD RV See Note)
Provides that a recommendation for clemency by the Board of Pardons does not expire upon the expiration of a governor's term in office
Amends provisions of law regarding emergency medical response vehicles (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Provides relative to the possession of driver's licenses and special identification cards (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Provides with respect to the development of appraisals and assessments of public service properties by the La. Tax Commission (EN NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)
Provides relative to disclosure of information in the state central registry of reports of child abuse and neglect (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Provides for payment of unfunded accrued liability by an employer participating in the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System (EN NO IMPACT APV)
Requires presentations at public meetings relative to plans for schools in need of academic improvement (EN INCREASE LF EX See Note)
Creates the "Military Order of the Purple Heart First Responder Program" special prestige license plate
Provides relative to certain veteran-owned small entrepreneurships
Changes the fee applicable to certain accident reports (EN INCREASE SG RV See Note)
Provides an exception from dual officeholding laws to allow a certified public accountant to hold an office on a school board and employment with a sheriff to provide financial or accounting services
Provides relative to voting by persons in a nursing home
Provides relative to towable equipment. (8/1/18)
Creates the Capital Area Road and Bridge District. (gov sig)
Authorizes exemplary damages in civil actions for death from hazing. (gov sig)
Provides relative to persons participating in certain specialty court programs (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Provides relative to abortion clinics and services. (8/1/18) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Provides relative to the Medicaid managed care annual report. (gov sig)
Creates the crime of sexual abuse of an animal. (gov sig)
Provides relative to the application for an occupational license
Provides relative to sheriffs' retiree health benefits
Authorizes levee districts to provide extra compensation to certain levee district police officers. (8/1/18)
Provides relative to concealed carry of firearms for qualified retired law enforcement officers
Provides relative to Medicaid managed care organizations. (8/1/18)
Provides relative to contracts for Medicaid pharmacy benefit management services. (8/1/18)
Provides for a special taxing district in certain parishes to fund construction and operation of courtroom and related facilities
Provides relative to the requirements for submission of DNA samples by peace officers (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Provides relative to the accreditation bodies that the Department of Public Safety and Corrections may use to issue permits to testing laboratories
Amends penalties for gross littering
Provides relative to bail after conviction. (gov sig)
Provides relative to prohibited conduct by state employees and agencies. (8/1/18)
Revises procedure regarding meetings to propose or renew taxes and to call an election. (8/1/18)
Extends cooperative endeavor agreements for use of surface waters
Prohibits the issuance of motion picture tax credits for certain types of productions (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Provides relative to a single uniform prescription drug prior authorization form. (See Act) (RE SEE FISC NOTE SG EX See Note)
Provides an exception with respect to certain telephonic solicitations during a declared state of emergency
Correct statutory references for the litter program from the Department of Environmental Quality to the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries
Provides relative to the use of a facility dog by a witness during a court proceeding
Requests the House and Governmental Affairs Committee to meet to study moving all school board elections to the gubernatorial or presidential election
Urges and requests the Department of Public Safety, office of motor vehicles, study and recommend best practices to provide for parent-taught driver's education
Expresses condolences on the death of Bernard Norman Marcantel
Directs the office of state buildings and grounds to duplicate all signage at the state capitol in French (EN +$44,440 SG EX See Note)
Provides relative to healthcare licensing boards reporting to the House and Senate committees on health and welfare on their recognition of military veterans training in various healthcare occupations
Requests the Dept. of Public Safety and Corrections to provide a cost analysis and information relative to use of inmate labor for certain construction projects
Commends posthumously Eddie Hughes, commends Eddie's Seafood and Soul Food Restaurant, designates "Eddie's Original Stuffed Shrimp" as the official Stuffed Shrimp of Louisiana, and recognizes July 14, 2018, as Eddie Hughes Day
Commends Earl O. Armstrong for his many contributions to Plaquemines Parish
Provides for the selection and authority of commissioners representing the state when a convention is called to propose amendments to the U.S. Constitution pursuant to Article V
Creates a pilot program for drinking water testing in schools
Requests the La. Department of Health to study and report to the legislature concerning the potential implementation of mandatory case management in the Medicaid program
Requests the Louisiana State Law Institute to study exemptions from seizure of certain retirement accounts
Commends the University Laboratory School football team on winning the Division II state championship
Creates the Slavery Ancestral Burial Grounds Preservation Commission
Requests a study of cost-effective means by which to facilitate emergency access to epinephrine at public places
Expresses condolences on the death of Minnie Marilyn B. Crews
Requests the Louisiana State Law Institute to study the classification of a production payment under Louisiana law
Designates May 19-25, 2018, as Safe Boating Week in Louisiana
Commends team owner Tommy Scott and general manager Scott Muscutt and the entire Mudbug organization upon the Shreveport Mudbugs winning the 2018 North American Hockey League Robertson Cup National Championship and for their contributions to bringing the 2018 Miss USA and Miss Teen USA pageants to George's Pond at the Hirsch Memorial Coliseum
Requests a study concerning means by which to improve the Medicaid estate recovery functions of the La. Department of Health
Expresses condolences upon the death of former Alexandria city marshal James Byrd
Requests a subcommittee of the House Committee on Judiciary to undertake a study to determine whether a need exists to create a Commission on Prosecutorial Conduct
Commends Philadelphia Eagles head coach Doug Pederson for his many accomplishments
Requests the creation of the Louisiana Women's Incarceration Task Force
Provides relative to a study of the issue of courts raising prescription sua sponte
Requests the Louisiana State Law Institute to study and make recommendations for legislation to implement notaries public with limited authority
Creates a study committee to evaluate Louisiana's prevalence of tobacco-related illnesses resulting from secondhand smoke exposure
Commends Jacob Nichols and Live 2 Serve for service to the Baton Rouge community
Recognizes the Tangipahoa Parish Fair as the oldest fair in Louisiana
Requests the Louisiana State Law Institute to study provisions of law and make recommendations regarding modular homes
Requests the La. Department of Health to require all Medicaid managed care plans to participate in the quality incentive program
Creates a committee to study and develop a system for notification and registration of persons convicted of a terrorism offense
Commends Derrell Cohoon on being inducted as a Lifetime Honorary Member of the Louisiana Associated General Contractors, Inc.
Authorizes and directs the Louisiana State Law Institute to study certain aspects regarding actions for violations of the duty of good faith and fair dealings under insurance policies
Requests the Department of Insurance to establish a task force to conduct a comprehensive study of the commercial bail bond industry as a whole
Expresses condolences on the death of former Louisiana First Lady and U.S. Senator Elaine Edwards
Requests the office of public health to study and report on cancer incidence in the Colfax, Louisiana area
Commends the Reverend Titus Walker on his retirement after fifteen years at Northwest Louisiana Technical College and acknowledges his pastoral care at Solid Rock Baptist Church in Ruston
Designates the week of September 24-30, 2018, as Louisiana Craft Brewer Week
Creates the daylight saving time task force to study daylight saving time versus standard time
Authorizes the expropriation of property including rights-of-way for use in certain projects in the city of Lafayette and parish of Lafayette. (8/1/18)
Adds a person's telephone number when used for "caller ID spoofing" to the definition of "personal identifying information" for purposes of the crime of identity theft. (8/1/18)
Provides for the collection of proceeds of fees from the University Neighborhood Security and Improvement District. (gov sig)
Provides for performance audits for statutory dedications that include a fee for service. (gov sig) (EN +$16,000 GF EX See Note)
Provides relative to the penalty for cruelty to a juvenile. (8/1/18)
Provides for the in forma pauperis filing of expungements. (8/1/18)
Increases the fees for city marshals and constables for certain services (EN INCREASE LF RV See Note)
Provides relative to security deposits for residential leases. (1/1/19)
Provides for the issuance and administration of market agency and livestock dealer permits
Provides relative to the Physical Therapy Licensure Compact. (gov sig) (EG DECREASE SG RV See Note)
Authorizes additional methods for submission of certain public contracts
Provides for minimum standards for elevator access to multistory courthouses for the disabled community. (8/1/18) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Provides relative to school choice
Provides an exception to certain provisions of the ethics code to allow a licensed physician to perform the duties of certain positions at the Louisiana Department of Health and to practice medicine outside of the performance of such duties
Provides relative to a unanimous jury in felony cases
Requires that notice of intent and proposition for ad valorem taxes levied for volunteer fire departments indicate that a portion of tax proceeds will be paid to retirement systems. (gov sig) (EN NO IMPACT LF See Note)
Adds "employee" to those individuals authorized to keep a register of motor vehicle sales in salvage pools. (8/1/18)
Provides relative to disposition of children after adjudication of certain felony-grade delinquent acts. (8/1/18) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Provides for recall election petitions. (gov sig)
Provides relative to health profession licensing board membership. (8/1/18)
Provides with respect to the exclusion or ejection of certain persons from gaming establishments
Creates a commission to study the feasibility of consolidating the Washington Parish and Bogalusa City school systems. (gov sig) (EN NO IMPACT LF See Note)
Provides for processes, including public comment, to identify agency rules that may be contrary to law, outdated, unnecessary, overly complex, or burdensome (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Provides relative to terms of the members of the board of commissioners of mosquito abatement districts. (8/1/18)
Reduces frequency of enhanced audits required of certain local auditees with at least three consecutive years of enhanced audits with no findings. (8/1/18) (EN NO IMPACT LF See Note)
Designates a roadway as the "Francis E. 'Hank' Lauricella Memorial Road"
Provides an exception for a hospital service district commissioner that owns a pharmacy. (8/1/18)
Repeals provision for recusal for members of the Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans and changes provisions permitting certain persons to serve on the board. (8/1/18)
Provides for coverage for subsequent preventive tests for certain individuals diagnosed with breast cancer
Provides relative to riverboat gaming. (gov sig)
Provides relative to court costs for small successions. (8/1/18)
Authorizes the recommendation of medical marijuana for treating certain health conditions of persons with autism
Provides for implementation of the zero suicide initiative and a state suicide prevention plan (EN SEE FISC NOTE FF EX See Note)
Provides public defenders the option to enter the parish government's health care system (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)
Provides that a person cannot give consent to sexual conduct while in police custody. (gov sig)
Clarifies that both volunteer and paid security guards may serve churches or houses of worship and provides for tactical training requirements for certain concealed handgun permittees. (8/1/18)
Requires paid tax preparers to sign and provide an identification number on tax returns, reports, and claims filed with the Department of Revenue. (7/1/18) (EN INCREASE SG EX See Note)
Provides relative to application fees for alcoholic beverage permits
Modifies the documentation requirements for resale and reassignment of vehicles
Provides for the membership of certain museum boards
Adopts the Interstate Corrections Compact in Louisiana
Relative to possession limits of filleted red drum, spotted sea trout, or Southern flounder on board a vessel while on the water
Provides relative to the enforcement of a regulation, decision, or order of the Board of Ethics. (8/1/18)
Provides relative to court costs in the 15th JDC (EN INCREASE LF RV See Note)
Provides relative to the State Licensing Board for Contractors. (8/1/18)
Provides relative to the cancellation of inferior privileges, liens, and mortgages
Increases penalties for the crime of introducing, possessing, or sending contraband into or from a penal institution
Provides relative to the functions of jury commissions in Caldwell Parish. (8/1/18)
Provides that mammography examinations may be conducted through digital tomosynthesis (RE INCREASE SG EX See Note)
Requires additional training for peace officers (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Provides relative to distribution of funding from the Traumatic Head and Spinal Cord Injury Trust Fund (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)
Provides relative to the chief judge of city courts with two or more divisions. (8/1/18)
Provides relative to the use of restraints on juveniles during court proceedings
Requires the state Department of Education to provide student assessment results for certain assessments for dispersal to teachers. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)
Relative to the Lafourche Parish hotel occupancy tax. (gov sig)
Revises provisions relative to the construction management at risk project delivery method for certain public contracts
Provides relative to physician assistants. (8/1/18)
Authorizes the transfer of certain state property in Tangipahoa Parish and also certain property in St. Martin Parish. (gov sig)
Provides relative to family violence and domestic abuse as factors to consider in determining visitation and custody. (gov sig)
Provides relative to the Floodplain Evaluation and Management Commission
Provides for the classification of membership. (6/30/18) (EN DECREASE APV)
Provides relative to jurisdiction for sexual assault protection order cases
Exempts the Tickfaw River and Blind River from certain restrictions of the Natural and Scenic Rivers Program
Provides for the independence of state and statewide retirement systems' actuaries. (6/30/18) (EN NO IMPACT APV)
Provides relative to the prohibition on public funding for entities that perform abortions (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Provides relative to the La. Used Motor Vehicle Commission
Provides for the Public Retirement Systems' Actuarial Committee. (6/30/18) (EN NO IMPACT APV)
Provides relative to prescription for tuition fees. (8/1/18)
Provides relative to certain records of the registrar of voters (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Creates and provides for the Advisory Board of the La. State Archives within the Dept. of State (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Provides relative to information provided with the release of school performance scores and letter grades. (gov sig)
Provides relative to persons found not guilty by reason of insanity. (8/1/18)
Creates Language Equality and Acquisition for Deaf Kids (LEAD-K) Task Force to develop framework for assessing children who are deaf or hard of hearing to determine language skills and ensure kindergarten readiness (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Provides relative to the use of telecommunications devices as a form of harassment
Prohibits abortions later than fifteen weeks after conception. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Provides relative to the interruption of prescription
Provides relative to the mandatory reporting of certain crimes of sexual abuse of a minor
Provides relative to eyewitness identifications. (gov sig)
Creates the Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies Advisory Council (RE1 NO IMPACT See Note)
Allows students to wear bulletproof backpacks. (gov sig)
Provides relative to servicing of video draw poker devices
Protects certain individuals from financial exploitation
Require BESE to establish criteria whereby a teacher may be issued a dyslexia practitioner or dyslexia therapist ancillary certificate. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)
Designates portions of certain Louisiana Highways
Extends and provides for the Louisiana Obesity Prevention and Management Commission. (gov sig)
Names the LSU Health North Clinic and Urgent Care facility in Baton Rouge the "Willie F. Hawkins Emergency Care Center". (gov sig)
Requires the Sabine River Authority to obtain approval of the Water Resources Commission prior to the sale of water outside the state. (8/1/18)
Designates a portion of United States Highway 61 as the "Deputy Brandon Nielsen and Deputy Jeremy Triche Memorial Highway"
Authorizes the Department of Revenue to seek to enjoin preparers who engage in certain conduct. (7/1/18) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF RV See Note)
Authorizes the secretary of the Department of Revenue to refuse to register or issue or may revoke a state sales tax resale certificate to new business if the business reorganization was intended to evade payment of sales and use or withholding tax. (7/1/18) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV See Note)
Provides that the legislative auditor shall make a best practices list available to local auditees. (gov sig) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Provides relative to virtual schools. (gov sig) (OR NO IMPACT See Note)
Provides relative to controlled dangerous substances in a hospital. (8/1/18)
Provides penalties for reckless operation of certain all-terrain vehicles on public roadways. (8/1/18)
Requires instruction and display of the national motto "In God We Trust" in public schools. (gov sig) (EN NO IMPACT LF EX See Note)
Provides relative to the reemployment of retired interpreters, educational transliterators, and certified educators of the hearing impaired in positions covered by the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana (EN INCREASE APV)
Authorizes and directs the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority to promulgate rules and guidelines for their contracting authorities
Provides relative to admission to treatment facility for mental illness pursuant to emergency certificate. (8/1/18)
Extends the authorization for ready-mixed concrete trucks to exceed the maximum permissible gross vehicle weight, under certain circumstances, until 2020
Provides relative to careless operation of a motor vehicle during flood conditions. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE LF EX See Note)
Provides relative to the prescription monitoring program. (8/1/18)
Provides relative to the master plan for postsecondary education. (gov sig)
Prohibits the intentional exposure to HIV
Exempts certain Department of Agriculture and Forestry records from the Public Records Law. (gov sig)
Reduces the membership of the board of commissioners for the University Neighborhood Security and Improvement District in Orleans Parish. (gov sig)
Provides relative to administrative rule approval process applicable to school readiness tax credits. (8/1/18) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Provides relative to premium costs for retired sheriffs and deputy sheriffs of the Vermilion Parish Sheriff's Office. (7/1/18)
Provides relative to meetings of the Amite River Basin Drainage and Water Conservation District. (8/1/18)
Expands DPS&C's substance abuse probation program to include treatment for mental health issues (EN NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)
Re-creates the Department of Justice and provides relative to its structure
Provide for deposits into the Tangipahoa Parish Tourist Commission Fund and the Tangipahoa Parish Economic Development Fund (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD RV See Note)
Requests the attorney general to file an amicus brief in federal court to support Mississippi in that state's litigation to ban elective abortions after fifteen weeks gestation
Provides for the ancillary expenses of state government
Creates the Emergency Medical Services Professional Working Group to study and make recommendations to the legislature concerning matters relating to licensure and regulation of emergency medical personnel
Urges and requests the Louisiana Department of Health and other parties to study jointly the language in the Louisiana Code of Criminal Procedure Article 648
Provides for Revenue Sharing Distribution for Fiscal Year 2018-2019
Creates the Children's Savings Accounts Task Force to study and make recommendations relative to establishing a children's savings account program in La.
Provides for a hospital stabilization formula (EN +$69,495,364 SD RV See Note)
Recognizes the potential value for local law enforcement agencies of an independent police monitor
Memorializes congress to ensure that Tricare adequately covers behavioral therapies for military dependents
Memorializes the U.S. Congress to adopt legislation to establish the "Caddo Lake National Heritage Area"
Expresses sincere and heartfelt condolences upon the death of Dr. Raphael Alvin Baranco
Provides for changes to the election dates for certain Lawrason Act municipalities
Urges and requests the Department of Transportation and Development to make improvements to the appearance of state entry points on interstate highways
Reduces the expenditure limit for FY 2018-2019 (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Provides relative to the collection of comprehensive information concerning an individual who suffered a violent death
Requires school governing authorities to provide parents with certain information relative to the health risks associated with pornography. (8/1/18) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)
Creates the "Scotlandville Magnet High School" special prestige license plate. (8/1/18)
Creates the Technology Strategy Task Force. (See Act) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Prohibits the publication of certain criminal information or juvenile record information. (8/1/18)
Provides for the membership of the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans. (See Act)
Authorizes Louisiana Property Assistance Agency to make surplus bulletproof vests available for purchase to certain part-time and reserve peace officers under the same requirements as the vests are made available to certain full-time employees. (8/1/18)
Provides relative to making a false communication that triggers an emergency response ("swatting"). (gov sig)
Provides relative to the execution of an order for protective custody and examination. (gov sig)
Extends legislative authority for the Louisiana Behavior Analyst Board. (7/1/18) (EG NO IMPACT See Note)
Provides relative to Assistive Outpatient Treatment. (8/1/18)
Provides relative to child support orders. (10/1/18)
Provides relative to the protection of computerized data that contains personal information and requires notification of data breaches. (8/1/18)
Provides relative to pharmacy benefit managers. (See Act) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Provides relative to visitation rights of grandparents and siblings. (8/1/18)
Provides relative to documents submitted to the Louisiana State Fire Marshal. (8/1/18) (EN INCREASE SD EX See Note)
Provides relative to the State Boxing and Wrestling Commission. (8/1/18)
Provides relative to joint custody decrees and implementation orders during a declared disaster. (gov sig)
Provides relative to the state uniform construction code and the powers of the state fire marshal. (8/1/18)
Provides for the modification of support orders when the Department of Children and Family Services is providing support enforcement services. (gov sig)
Provides relative to the clinical laboratory personnel committee. (8/1/18)
Allows political subdivisions to perform integrated coastal projects through outcome-based contracting
Provides procedure for expulsion of members of the Louisiana Public Defender Board for unexcused absences at board meetings. (gov sig)
Creates the Louisiana Sexual Assault Oversight Commission. (8/1/18)
Requires the National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline information to be posted in additional locations. (gov sig)
Provides for Rural Grant Opportunity Program in the Statewide Flood Control Program. (8/1/18) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)
Re-creates the Department of State Civil Service and the statutory entities made a part of the department by law. (6/30/18)
Provides relative to a defamation claim brought by an alleged perpetrator of sexual misconduct against the alleged victim. (8/1/18)
Prohibits a health insurance issuer from denying a nonopioid prescription in favor of an opioid prescription. (8/1/18)
Provides for the award of attorney fees to a person making a public records request when the person prevails or prevails in part in a suit instituted by a public body or official
Relative to Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana membership. (6/30/18) (EN NO IMPACT APV)
Provides for survivor benefits. (6/30/18) (EN NO IMPACT APV)
Provides for certain eligible rollover distributions. (6/30/18) (EN NO IMPACT APV)
Authorizes the legislative auditor to obtain certain information about employees with access to federal tax records of auditees. (gov sig) (EN NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)
Provides immunity from liability for person providing gratuitous emergency care to a minor or domestic animal. (8/1/18)
Provides relative to incarcerated women. (8/1/18)
Provides relative to the duration of a disposition on a felony-grade adjudication. (8/1/18)
Provides for a special prestige license plate to bear the international symbol of accessibility and one for "Upside Downs". (1/1/19) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX See Note)
Provides for the distribution of certain contractor fees to each accredited public university's and community college's school of construction management or construction technology. (8/1/18) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV See Note)
Provides relative to the creation of a volunteer and employee criminal history system. (1/1/19)
Corrects language regarding average final compensation. (6/30/18) (EN INCREASE APV)
Provides relative to seed testing and labeling. (gov sig)
Authorizes the Department of Transportation and Development to rent or lease equipment. (8/1/18)
Provides relative to the use of purple paint in lieu of "no trespassing" signs. (8/1/18)
Provides relative to the transfer of firearms for the violation of a protective order. (10/1/18)
Re-creates the Louisiana Workforce Commission and reauthorizes the Incumbent Worker Training Program. (6/30/18)
Provides for family member visitation with offenders who have sustained serious injuries while in custody. (gov sig)
Re-creates entities transferred to or placed within the office of the governor. (6/30/18) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Provides relative to collection of certain disallowed tax benefits from taxpayers. (8/1/18) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF RV See Note)
Provides for nullification of nondisclosure agreements to conceal criminal activity. (8/1/18)
Provides relative to the Louisiana Cemetery Board. (gov sig)
Provides relative to the sale of excess immovable property by the Department of Transportation and Development. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)
Provides relative to "going-out-of-business sale" deposits. (7/1/18) (EN INCREASE GF RV See Note)
Provides relative to permissible warrantless searches of the residences of defendants on probation or parole. (8/1/18)
Requests the Department of Revenue to create the Louisiana Retail Food and Beverage E-Commerce Task Force.
Commends Eugene A. "Gene" Bouquet for his long, dedicated, and distinguished service on the occasion of his retirement.
Requests the Senate Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and International Affairs to study the licensing of commercial driving schools.
Expresses sincere condolences to the family and friends of Michael "Todd" Denson on the occasion of his passing.
Commends Doug Pederson, coach of the Philadelphia Eagles, on his Super Bowl LII victory.
Requests BESE to ascertain whether all public, approved nonpublic, and charter school teachers, school counselors, principals, and other school administrators for whom suicide awareness training is deemed beneficial are in compliance with the Jason Flatt Act.
Requests the oil and gas industry in Louisiana to support the construction of the Louisiana Geological Survey Coastal Geohazards Atlas by providing access to interpretations from 3-D seismic data.
Expresses condolences upon the death of Judge Bernard Marcantel.
Commends Kaye Broussard on her retirement after 32 years of teaching music.
Expresses condolences upon the death of James Byrd, former Alexandria city marshal.
Relative to compensatory mitigation requirements
Commends Harry Connick Sr. for his outstanding accomplishments and singular contributions during thirty years of dedicated public service as district attorney and for his remarkable musical accomplishments.
Requests each public school governing authority to review and consider the results of screenings in determining whether students should be evaluated for giftedness and dyslexia programs.
Requests the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority and the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries to develop a proposal seeking Open Ocean TIG and RW TIG funds to monitor red snapper and other reef fish impacted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Expresses condolences on the death of Frank M. Stuart Sr.
Provides relative to the waiting period before performing a marriage ceremony (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Expresses condolences on the death of Mattie Mae Durant Cockerham Williams
Commends the United Cajun Navy and its founder, Todd Terrell, for outstanding service to the citizens of Louisiana impacted by the historic flooding of Louisiana in 2016.
Establishes the Post-Conviction Veterans Mentor Program (EN DECREASE GF EX See Note)
Provides relative to requirements for escort vehicles
Commends St. Thomas More High School on winning the state lacrosse championship.
Recognizes Preston Sharp for his patriotism and welcomes his visit to Louisiana.
Requests the Louisiana Department of Health to raise awareness about the risks posed by atrial fibrillation and stroke
Requests evaluation of the Recreation and Park Commission for the parish of East Baton Rouge to ensure the board members are meeting required responsibilities.
Continues and provides with respect to the task force to study steps in addressing healthcare delivery from the Baton Rouge Health Services Task Force.
Commends Ruth Shirley Heidecker for 43 years of dedicated service as an educator and congratulates her on her retirement.
Provides for authority of courts in times of an emergency or disaster
Requests BESE to reconvene the MFP task force to determine the actual cost of providing public education in Louisiana.
Commends Bailor Wells for winning Google's art contest top prize in Louisiana.
Commends the Bossier Parish Community College Lady Cavaliers softball team.
Commends the traditional quartet gospel group the Lighthouse Gospel Singers on their seventieth anniversary
Requests DOE to provide information to the legislative education committees establishing the state's charter schools' compliance with the intent, purpose, and objectives established in the Charter School Demonstration Programs Law.
Requests the state Department of Education to report to the legislature regarding implementation of the recommendations made in the Alternative Education Study Group Report.
Commends the Destination Imagination teams from the Baton Rouge Center for Visual and Performing Arts on advancement to the Destination Imagination Global Finals.
Requests the Dept. of Education to investigate the feasibility and cost of installing silent alarms in all elementary and secondary school classrooms.
Provides relative to the reimbursement of healthcare providers
Provides relative to motor vehicle reports required to obtain an insurance premium quote
Commends the Metairie Park Country Day School Lady Cajuns volleyball team upon winning the 2017 Division V state championship
Creates and provides for the Child Protection Act Advisory Commission.
Requests the Louisiana Board of Barber Examiners and the Louisiana State Board of Cosmetology to work together in evaluating whether the practice of alternative hair design should be regulated by the Louisiana Board of Barber Examiners.
Provides relative to payment of group insurance premiums for retirees from the Jefferson Davis Parish Sheriff's Office
Commends the Shreveport Mudbugs on winning the North American Hockey League Robertson Cup championship.
Provides relative to pharmacist communication with patients. (8/1/18)
Expresses support for the proposed changes to the Magnuson-Stevens Act found in the Strengthening Fishing Communities and Increasing Flexibility in Fisheries Management Act and the Modernizing Recreational Fisheries Management Act of 2017
Provides for the "Seymore D'Fair Foundation One Hundred Percent Me Drug Free" specialty license plate
Requests appointment of a committee to notify the governor that the legislature is ready to adjourn sine die.
Establishes a task force to study and make recommendations on the issue of public access on the navigable waters of the state.
Requests appointment of a committee to notify the House of Representatives that the Senate is ready to adjourn sine die.
Creates a task force on the policies of the Recreation and Park Commission for the Parish of East Baton Rouge
Requests the enforcement of certain littering ordinances in the city of New Orleans
Regards a budget plan that provides funding established by a standstill budget and includes priority programs.
Expresses support of the right to keep and bear arms
Creates the "Covington High School" specialty license plate
Requests the State Bd. of Elementary and Secondary Education to require public school governing authorities to adopt policies to address sexual abuse by children in schools
Provides relative to the availability of auditor reports prepared or accepted by the legislative auditor
Recognizes and commends the Louisiana teams that participated in the 2018 FIRST Robotics World Championship in Houston, Texas.
Commends Barbara Ann Bell Malter for thirty years of service with State Farm Insurance Company.
Recognizes the potential value for local law enforcement agencies of an independent police monitor
Provides relative to the issuance of an ex-offender provisional license
Recognizes May 18, 2018, as CODOFIL Day at the state capitol
Prohibits the possession of firearms in certain cases involving stalking
Commends Joe Delpit for his outstanding accomplishments