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LouisianaSB 1952026 Regular SessionSenateWALLET

HEALTH CARE: Provides relative to the administration of medications. (8/1/26)

Sponsored By: Brach Jerad Myers (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Health and Welfare

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

More emergency medication access for patients

Beginning August 1, 2026, Louisiana lets licensed emergency medical technicians, advanced emergency medical technicians, and paramedics give patients time-critical prescription medicine they carry. Patients must have a rare disease, chronic illness, or special medical need, and they or their family must request treatment. Providers must follow their medical director's protocols. Medicine must be given through the nose, into a vein, or into a muscle. The Louisiana EMS Commission must approve practice standards that include this authority.

Patients face limits on medication lawsuits

Beginning August 1, 2026, Louisiana limits patients' legal remedies for outcomes from covered emergency medication treatment. Covered outcomes cannot lead to civil liability, criminal prosecution, or licensing discipline or other adverse licensing action against the provider. Coverage applies to patient-carried, time-critical prescription medicine for a rare disease, chronic illness, or special medical need. The patient or family must request treatment, and the licensed emergency provider must follow medical-director protocols. Treatment must use the nose, a vein, or a muscle. Protection does not apply when an outcome results from gross negligence or willful or wanton misconduct.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Brach Jerad Myers

    Republican • Senate

Cosponsors

  • Adrian Fisher

    Democratic • House

  • Annie Spell

    Republican • House

  • Joe Stagni

    Affiliation unavailable

  • Kellee Hennessy Dickerson

    Republican • House

  • Mandie Landry

    Democratic • House

  • Peter F. Egan Sr.

    Republican • House

  • Stephanie H. Berault

    Republican • House

  • Tehmi Jahi Chassion

    Democratic • House

  • Wayne McMahen

    Republican • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 144 • No: 0

House vote • 5/11/2026

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 • 4/29/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 12 • No: 0

Senate vote • 3/25/2026

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. 252.

    5/15/2026Senate

  2. Effective date 8/1/2026.

    5/15/2026Senate

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

    5/13/2026Senate

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

    5/12/2026Senate

  5. Signed by the Speaker of the House.

    5/12/2026House

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

    5/11/2026House

  7. Received from the House without amendments.

    5/11/2026Senate

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

    5/7/2026House

  9. Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.

    5/6/2026House

  10. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.

    5/5/2026House

  11. Reported favorably (12-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    4/29/2026House

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

    3/31/2026House

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

    3/30/2026House

  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.

    3/25/2026Senate

  15. Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.

    3/23/2026Senate

  16. Reported favorably.

    3/18/2026Senate

  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.

    2/26/2026Senate

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