All Roll Calls
Yes: 198 • No: 37
LouisianaHB 7752026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET
HEALTH/CHILDREN: Provides relative to minor's consent for medical procedures and treatments
Sponsored By: Emily Chenevert (Republican)
Signed by Governor
Health and Welfare
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Bill Overview
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4 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.
Parental consent required for most minor care
Louisiana providers generally need consent before giving medical or surgical care to someone under 18. Consent must come from a parent, legal guardian, or qualifying temporary caregiver acting at a parent’s or guardian’s request. The law’s self-consent and emergency exceptions still apply. The law also removes schools’ and facilities’ specific authority to give preventive counseling or treatment without parental consent. It repeals three earlier minor-consent statutes.
Minors keep specific paths to care
Minors can consent to medical and mental-health services when emancipated, serving in the U.S. armed forces, or attending college. The college exception excludes high-school students taking college classes through dual enrollment. Minors can also consent to pregnancy-related care, alcohol or substance misuse treatment, sexually transmitted disease treatment, and blood donation. Other exceptions cover reasonably suspected abuse or neglect and voluntary treatment-facility admission under Children’s Code Article 1464. Minors can consent to contraception and sexually transmitted infection prevention or treatment; that exception does not cover related vaccines. Consent under these exceptions is as valid as an adult’s and cannot later be canceled because of age. For patients under 18, emergency medical or surgical care can proceed with implied consent under Louisiana’s emergency-consent rules.
Parents gain status under health records law
Louisiana’s health records law includes a minor’s parent, tutor, or legal guardian in its definition of “patient.” This gives those adults patient-related status under the records law while the child remains a minor.
Legal protections for providers treating minors
Providers and facilities can rely in good faith on someone they reasonably believe has authority to consent for a minor. They need not investigate a claimed temporary caregiver’s authority unless they actually know the claim is false. State-law protections for good-faith reliance also apply. Covered providers and facilities are shielded from civil or criminal liability for examinations, diagnoses, and treatments authorized by this law. Liability for negligence remains.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Emily Chenevert
Republican • House
Cosponsors
Charles Owen
Republican • House
Roy Daryl Adams
Democratic • House
Debbie Villio
Republican • House
Dodie Horton
Republican • House
Jeremy LaCombe
Republican • House
John E. Wyble
Republican • House
Kathy Edmonston
Republican • House
Laurie Schlegel
Republican • House
Michael Robert Bayham Jr.
Republican • House
Phillip DeVillier
Republican • House
Rodney Schamerhorn
Republican • House
Stephanie H. Berault
Republican • House
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 5/29/2026
Read by title, roll called, yeas 67, nays 30, Senate amendments concurred in.
Yes: 67 • No: 30
Senate vote • 5/28/2026
Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 28 yeas and 7 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
Yes: 28 • No: 7
House vote • 5/12/2026
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
Yes: 94 • No: 0
House vote • 5/6/2026
Reported with amendments
Yes: 9 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 835.
6/9/2026HouseEffective date: 08/01/2026.
6/9/2026HouseSent to the Governor for executive approval.
6/4/2026HouseSigned by the President of the Senate.
6/1/2026SenateEnrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
5/31/2026HouseRead by title, roll called, yeas 67, nays 30, Senate amendments concurred in.
5/29/2026HouseCalled from the Calendar.
5/28/2026SenateSenate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 28 yeas and 7 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
5/28/2026SenateReceived from the Senate with amendments.
5/28/2026HouseScheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2026.
5/28/2026HouseCalled from the Calendar.
5/27/2026SenateRead by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
5/27/2026SenateRules suspended.
5/26/2026SenateRead by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
5/26/2026SenateReported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
5/25/2026SenateCommittee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
5/21/2026SenateReported with amendments.
5/20/2026SenateRead second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.
5/13/2026SenateCalled from the calendar.
5/12/2026HouseRead third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
5/12/2026HouseReceived in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
5/12/2026SenateRead by title, returned to the calendar.
5/11/2026HouseNotice given.
5/11/2026HouseScheduled for floor debate on 05/12/2026.
5/11/2026HouseRead by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
5/7/2026House
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