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LA HB478
Bill
Status
4/4/2025
Primary Sponsor
Dodie Horton
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AI Summary
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Louisiana Department of Health must produce and distribute signs reading "Pregnant? Help Is Available for You and Your Baby!" with a link to pregnancy resources; signs must be at least 16x20 inches with color graphics and large, readable font
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Signs and free pregnancy help booklets must be displayed in patient admission areas, waiting rooms, and consultation rooms at public high school health centers and public college/university student health centers
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Booklets must include information on available services (medical, financial, counseling, supplies, neonatal care, parenting classes), adoption options, and fetal development at two-week gestational increments
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Booklets must reference R.S. 14:87.6 (prohibiting coercion of pregnant women/minors to undergo abortion) and Ch.C. Art. 1283.2 (allowing adoptive parents to reimburse prenatal, childbirth, and neonatal costs)
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Department is prohibited from including any text in booklets that encourages or promotes elective abortion; bill is designated as the "Signs of Hope Act"
Legislative Description
Requires certain information about pregnancy, adoption, and neonatal care to be posted and distributed at school health centers in public high schools and student health centers on public postsecondary education institution campuses (EG +$270,936 GF EX See Note)
HEALTH/SCHOOL CLINICS
Last Action
Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
4/30/2025