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LouisianaHB 7802026 Regular SessionHouse

WORKERS COMPENSATION: Provides relative to penalties and attorney fees for nonpayment, discontinuance of payment, or failure to consent for a medical treatment for workers' compensation claims, controversion of benefits, and preliminary determination hearings

Sponsored By: Michael "Gabe" Firment (Republican)

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Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Michael "Gabe" Firment

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 79 • No: 27

House vote • 4/8/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 71, nays 24. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 71 • No: 24

House vote • 3/26/2026

Reported with amendments

Yes: 8 • No: 3

Actions Timeline

  1. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A.

    4/13/2026Senate

  2. Called from the calendar.

    4/8/2026House

  3. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 71, nays 24. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/8/2026House

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

    4/8/2026Senate

  5. Called from the calendar.

    4/7/2026House

  6. Read by title, returned to the calendar.

    4/7/2026House

  7. Notice given.

    4/7/2026House

  8. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/08/2026.

    4/7/2026House

  9. Read by title, returned to the calendar.

    4/1/2026House

  10. Notice given.

    4/1/2026House

  11. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/07/2026.

    4/1/2026House

  12. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/01/2026.

    3/31/2026House

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

    3/30/2026House

  14. Reported with amendments (8-3).

    3/26/2026House

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

    3/9/2026House

  16. Prefiled.

    2/27/2026House

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

    2/27/2026House

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

    2/27/2026House

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