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LouisianaSB 232026 Regular SessionSenateWALLET

SANITARY CODE: Provides for an additional exemption to the definition of food service establishment. (8/1/26) (EN -$6,425 SG RV See Note)

Sponsored By: Gerald Boudreaux (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

Health and Welfare

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Adult care homes exempt from food-service rules

Beginning August 1, 2026, Louisiana excludes adult residential care providers from its sanitary code definition of a food service establishment. These providers are exempt from requirements that depend on that definition. The law does not specify which requirements change or how residents’ costs or services are affected.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Gerald Boudreaux

    Democratic • Senate

Cosponsors

  • Adrian Fisher

    Democratic • House

  • Doyle Boudreaux

    Republican • House

  • Dustin Miller

    Democratic • House

  • Ed Larvadain III

    Democratic • House

  • John R. Illg Jr.

    Republican • House

  • Joy Walters

    Democratic • House

  • Marcus Anthony Bryant

    Democratic • House

  • Rashid Armand Young

    Democratic • House

  • Steven Jackson

    Democratic • House

  • Sylvia Elaine Taylor

    Democratic • House

  • Tammy T. Phelps

    Democratic • House

  • Tehmi Jahi Chassion

    Democratic • House

  • Vanessa Caston LaFleur

    Democratic • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 143 • No: 0

House vote • 5/7/2026

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

Yes: 95 • No: 0

House vote • 4/28/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 11 • No: 0

Senate vote • 3/17/2026

Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 37 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 231.

    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. Received from the House without amendments.

    5/11/2026Senate

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

    5/7/2026House

  8. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/07/2026.

    5/6/2026House

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

    5/5/2026House

  10. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.

    4/29/2026House

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

    4/28/2026House

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

    3/23/2026House

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

    3/18/2026House

  14. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    3/17/2026Senate

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

    3/16/2026Senate

  16. Reported favorably.

    3/11/2026Senate

  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.

    1/28/2026Senate

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