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LouisianaHB 4302026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

LAW ENFORCE/OFFICERS: Enacts the MJ 911 Act to extend health insurance coverage for families of law enforcement officers and firemen employed by the City of Lafayette who are killed in the line of duty (EN INCREASE LF EX See Note)

Sponsored By: Tehmi Jahi Chassion (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

1 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.

Paid coverage for Lafayette first responders’ survivors

The City of Lafayette must provide and pay for health insurance for its fallen firefighters’ and law enforcement officers’ families. Death must result from an official-duty injury or work protecting life or property in that role, on or off duty. Surviving spouses keep coverage until they become eligible for Medicare. Children, stepchildren, and adopted children qualify while under 26 or physically or mentally disabled, including disabled children over 26. Coverage must match the scope of active employees’ coverage when the City offers it. The benefit applies retroactively to qualifying deaths on or after January 1, 2017. Spouses can decline their coverage; a child’s surviving parent or legal guardian can decline the child’s coverage.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Tehmi Jahi Chassion

    Democratic • House

Cosponsors

  • Beth Mizell

    Republican • Senate

  • Blake Miguez

    Republican • Senate

  • Bob Hensgens

    Republican • Senate

  • Brach Jerad Myers

    Republican • Senate

  • Cameron Henry

    Republican • Senate

  • Edward J. Price

    Democratic • Senate

  • Franklin J. Foil

    Republican • Senate

  • Gary Carter

    Democratic • Senate

  • Gerald Boudreaux

    Democratic • Senate

  • Glen Womack

    Republican • Senate

  • Gregory A. Miller

    Republican • Senate

  • Jay Luneau

    Democratic • Senate

  • Katrina R. Jackson-Andrews

    Democratic • Senate

  • Michael "Big Mike" Fesi

    Republican • Senate

  • Regina Barrow

    Democratic • Senate

  • Rick Edmonds

    Republican • Senate

  • Sam Jenkins

    Democratic • Senate

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 151 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/25/2026

Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 37 • No: 0

House vote • 4/13/2026

Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 96 • No: 0

House vote • 4/7/2026

Reported with amendments

Yes: 18 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 643.

    6/2/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    6/2/2026House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/27/2026House

  4. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/26/2026House

  5. Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.

    5/26/2026House

  6. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/26/2026Senate

  7. Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/25/2026Senate

  8. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.

    5/20/2026Senate

  9. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    5/19/2026Senate

  10. Reported favorably.

    5/18/2026Senate

  11. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance.

    4/15/2026Senate

  12. Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

    4/14/2026Senate

  13. Read by title, returned to the calendar.

    4/13/2026House

  14. Called from the calendar.

    4/13/2026House

  15. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/13/2026House

  16. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/13/2026.

    4/9/2026House

  17. Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.

    4/8/2026House

  18. Reported with amendments (18-0).

    4/7/2026House

  19. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

    3/9/2026House

  20. First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.

    2/27/2026House

  21. Prefiled.

    2/25/2026House

  22. Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

    2/25/2026House

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