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LouisianaHB 4562026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

WORKERS COMPENSATION: Provides relative to claims for benefits under workers' compensation

Sponsored By: Emily Chenevert (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Labor and Industrial Relations

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Workers face new filing and dispute rules

Louisiana workers' compensation petitions must name the parties and give their addresses. They must describe the injury's time, place, type, and cause, or give equivalent information identifying the parties. Petitions must give facts about the specific unpaid, missing, or disputed benefit and briefly state the benefits or other relief sought. Employers and payors can file disputed claims against employees, dependents, or beneficiaries over benefits or any other workers' compensation issue. This authority is no longer limited to fraud claims or appeals of medical-director decisions.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Emily Chenevert

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 94 • No: 53

Senate vote • 5/25/2026

Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 20 yeas and 17 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 20 • No: 17

House vote • 5/6/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 67, nays 30. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 67 • No: 30

House vote • 4/29/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 7 • No: 6

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 648.

    6/2/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    6/2/2026House

  3. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/27/2026Senate

  4. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/27/2026House

  5. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/26/2026House

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

    5/26/2026House

  7. Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 20 yeas and 17 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 Labor and Industrial Relations.

    5/7/2026Senate

  12. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 67, nays 30. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    5/6/2026House

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

    5/6/2026Senate

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

    5/5/2026House

  15. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/06/2026.

    5/5/2026House

  16. Reported favorably (7-6).

    4/29/2026House

  17. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations.

    3/9/2026House

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

    2/27/2026House

  19. Prefiled.

    2/26/2026House

  20. Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations.

    2/26/2026House

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