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LouisianaSB 1242026 Regular SessionSenateWALLET

HEALTH CARE: Provides relative to peer review of health systems. (8/1/26)

Sponsored By: Kirk Talbot (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Health and Welfare

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Health systems gain protected review sharing

Beginning August 1, 2026, Louisiana expands privacy and legal protections for covered healthcare peer review committees. Protected records include reports, drafts, emails, and work prepared for committees, wherever stored. These records are generally protected from court discovery and subpoenas and are limited to proper committee use. Physicians, dentists, psychologists, and podiatrists retain limited access to records supporting decisions against their hospital staff privileges. Otherwise accessible original documents do not become confidential just because a committee holds the only copy. Health systems include two or more commonly owned or controlled hospitals, plus parent companies and affiliated healthcare groups. Systems conducting regular credential or quality reviews can share records within the same system to check provider qualifications, care quality, competence, conduct, or patient safety. Authorized sharing preserves legal protections and cannot itself support damages claims or requests for court orders. Health systems also gain protection from damages for giving covered committees information about patients treated by doctors or dentists, or confined in hospitals or institutions.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Kirk Talbot

    Republican • Senate

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 142 • No: 0

House vote • 5/19/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 97 • No: 0

House vote • 5/12/2026

Reported with amendments

Yes: 10 • No: 0

Senate vote • 4/14/2026

Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 35 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 462.

    5/29/2026Senate

  2. Effective date 8/1/2026.

    5/29/2026Senate

  3. Signed by the Speaker of the House.

    5/25/2026House

  4. Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/21/2026Senate

  5. Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate.

    5/21/2026Senate

  6. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

    5/19/2026House

  7. Received from the House with amendments.

    5/19/2026Senate

  8. Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.

    5/18/2026House

  9. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/19/2026.

    5/18/2026House

  10. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.

    5/13/2026House

  11. Reported with amendments (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    5/12/2026House

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

    4/16/2026House

  13. Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.

    4/15/2026House

  14. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    4/14/2026Senate

  15. Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.

    4/13/2026Senate

  16. Reported with amendments.

    4/8/2026Senate

  17. Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.

    3/9/2026Senate

  18. Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.

    2/24/2026Senate

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