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LA HB112

Bill

Status

Introduced

3/25/2025

Primary Sponsor

Kathy Edmonston

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Origin

House of Representatives

2025 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Prohibits Louisiana healthcare professional licensing boards and commissions from restricting or banning the prescribing, administering, or dispensing of FDA-approved drugs for off-label uses

  • Defines "off-label use" as using a prescription drug for an indication not approved by the FDA, or using the drug in an unapproved age group, dosage, or route of administration

  • Applies to any drug that has received FDA approval for at least one specific use

  • Enacts new section R.S. 37:1704 under Louisiana's healthcare professional licensing laws

Legislative Description

Provides relative to the prescribing, administering, and dispensing of drugs for off-label use

DRUGS/PRESCRIPTION

Last Action

Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.

4/14/2025

Committee Referrals

Health and Welfare3/25/2025

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