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LouisianaHB 8952026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

HEALTH/MEDICAL TREATMENT: Provides relative to the treatment of sexual assault survivors by hospitals and healthcare providers (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

Sponsored By: Delisha Boyd (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

Health and Welfare

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Stronger care protections for sexual assault survivors

Louisiana hospitals and healthcare providers must tell sexual assault survivors about available treatment. Qualified providers must examine and treat survivors without undue delay in a private space that protects their health and safety. Care, including exams to collect evidence, must fit each survivor’s needs and circumstances and requires the survivor’s consent. Survivors must receive an advocate when one is available, and their communications with the advocate are legally protected. With the survivor’s consent, the advocate can stay during the exam to collect evidence. Providers must offer emergency contraception and medicines to prevent HIV and other sexually transmitted infections when medically needed. These medicines require the survivor’s consent and must be given according to the Drug Information Handbook.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Delisha Boyd

    Democratic • House

Cosponsors

  • Tehmi Jahi Chassion

    Democratic • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 146 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/26/2026

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 • 5/11/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 95 • No: 0

House vote • 5/6/2026

Reported with amendments

Yes: 13 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 852.

    6/8/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    6/8/2026House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/28/2026House

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

    5/27/2026House

  5. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/27/2026Senate

  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.

    5/26/2026Senate

  7. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/26/2026House

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

    5/25/2026Senate

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

    5/21/2026Senate

  10. Reported favorably.

    5/20/2026Senate

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

    5/12/2026Senate

  12. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    5/11/2026House

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

    5/11/2026Senate

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

    5/7/2026House

  15. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/11/2026.

    5/7/2026House

  16. Reported with amendments (13-0).

    5/6/2026House

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

    3/9/2026House

  18. Prefiled.

    2/27/2026House

  19. Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.

    2/27/2026House

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

    2/27/2026House

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