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LouisianaSB 192025 Regular SessionSenateWALLET

PHARMACEUTICALS: Provides relative to the dispensing of ivermectin. (gov sig)

Sponsored By: Michael "Big Mike" Fesi (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Health and Welfare

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

3 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.

Louisiana adults gain pharmacy ivermectin access

Louisiana pharmacists may dispense ivermectin to adults age 18 or older under a standing order. A healthcare professional with prescribing authority in the Louisiana Department of Health must issue that order. The department must set dispensing rules that require giving patients a screening risk assessment tool. Patients must also receive information about when ivermectin is appropriate or unsafe, proper use, and medical follow-up. The department may ban dispensing products containing ingredients it finds harmful.

Pharmacists gain legal protections for ivermectin

Pharmacists dispensing under this law receive legal protections when they act in good faith and use reasonable care. They are protected from discipline or other adverse administrative action by the Louisiana Board of Pharmacy. They also receive civil immunity, except for gross negligence or willful misconduct.

Ivermectin patients may face extra costs

Pharmacies may charge an administrative fee for services under the standing-order dispensing rules. This is added to ivermectin's ingredient cost and dispensing fee, and the law sets no administrative fee amount. The law does not require health insurers to cover ivermectin obtained this way. Patients whose plans do not cover it may have to pay themselves.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Michael "Big Mike" Fesi

    Republican • Senate

Cosponsors

  • Beryl Amedée

    Republican • House

  • Charles Owen

    Republican • House

  • Danny McCormick

    Republican • House

  • Dodie Horton

    Republican • House

  • Michael "Gabe" Firment

    Republican • House

  • Jacob Jules Landry

    Republican • House

  • Josh Carlson

    Republican • House

  • Kathy Edmonston

    Republican • House

  • Kellee Hennessy Dickerson

    Republican • House

  • Kimberly Landry Coates

    Republican • House

  • Peter F. Egan Sr.

    Republican • House

  • Phillip DeVillier

    Republican • House

  • R. Dewith Carrier

    Republican • House

  • Rodney Schamerhorn

    Republican • House

  • Roger William Wilder III

    Republican • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 105 • No: 35

House vote • 6/3/2025

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 67, nays 26. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 67 • No: 26

House vote • 5/28/2025

Reported with amendments

Yes: 10 • No: 1

Senate vote • 4/30/2025

Read by title, passed by a vote of 28 yeas and 8 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 28 • No: 8

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 464.

    6/20/2025Senate

  2. Effective date 6/20/2025.

    6/20/2025Senate

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

    6/11/2025Senate

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

    6/10/2025Senate

  5. Signed by the Speaker of the House.

    6/10/2025House

  6. Received from the House with amendments.

    6/4/2025Senate

  7. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 67, nays 26. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

    6/3/2025House

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

    6/2/2025House

  9. Scheduled for floor debate on 06/03/2025.

    6/2/2025House

  10. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.

    5/29/2025House

  11. Reported with amendments (10-1). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    5/28/2025House

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

    5/6/2025House

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

    5/5/2025House

  14. Read by title, passed by a vote of 28 yeas and 8 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    4/30/2025Senate

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

    4/29/2025Senate

  16. Reported with amendments.

    4/28/2025Senate

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

    4/14/2025Senate

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

    3/24/2025Senate

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