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LouisianaHB 6552025 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

HEALTH/LDH: Provides relative to fees charged by the Louisiana Department of Health in parish health units

Sponsored By: Adrian Fisher (Democratic)

Became Law

Health and Welfare

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

4 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 3 costs, 0 mixed.

Posted prices at parish health units

Louisiana’s Department of Health must post its current fee schedule in every parish health unit and on its website. Patients can check those posted prices before or when they get care. The department can also publish current fee schedules through rules under the Administrative Procedure Act.

Higher fees at parish health units

Louisiana’s Department of Health can charge up to $25 for each clinic or pharmacy service, up from $5. Total charges are capped at $50 per clinic visit, up from $10. These charges apply at parish health units. They do not apply to visits paid under the separate childhood vaccination or international travel vaccine fee rules. Actual charges may be below the caps.

Higher travel vaccine fees in Louisiana

Louisiana’s Department of Health can charge up to $50 to give international travel vaccines at a parish health unit. The prior administrative fee was $25. Patients also pay the unit’s current cost for yellow fever, cholera, and typhoid vaccines. The actual administrative fee may be below the cap.

Higher vaccination visit fees for children

Louisiana’s Department of Health can charge up to $50 per childhood vaccination visit at a parish health unit. The prior fee was $10. This applies when the child gets other pediatric care outside the department’s system. The actual fee may be below the cap.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Adrian Fisher

    Democratic • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 143 • No: 1

Senate vote • 6/3/2025

Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 38 • No: 0

House vote • 5/14/2025

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 1. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 93 • No: 1

House vote • 5/8/2025

Reported favorably

Yes: 12 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Becomes Act No. 314 without the Governor's signature.

    6/16/2025House

  2. Effective date: 06/26/2025.

    6/16/2025House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    6/5/2025House

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

    6/4/2025House

  5. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    6/4/2025Senate

  6. Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    6/3/2025Senate

  7. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    6/3/2025House

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

    6/1/2025Senate

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

    5/29/2025Senate

  10. Reported favorably.

    5/28/2025Senate

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

    5/19/2025Senate

  12. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 1. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    5/14/2025House

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

    5/14/2025Senate

  14. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/14/2025.

    5/13/2025House

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

    5/12/2025House

  16. Reported favorably (12-0).

    5/8/2025House

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

    4/24/2025House

  18. Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

    4/23/2025House

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