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LouisianaSB 292026 Regular SessionSenateWALLET

PUBLIC HEALTH: Requires coroners to report certain information regarding sudden child deaths. (8/1/26) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

Sponsored By: Patrick McMath (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Health and Welfare

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Child death reports and immunization record access

Beginning August 1, 2026, Louisiana requires more information in autopsy reports for children under 9 who die unexpectedly without explanation. Required reports must document immunizations given within 90 days before death. Coroners and their autopsy contractors can access the child's state immunization registry records without written consent. Including these records does not imply a cause of death. Coroners must report cases they identify as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, Sudden Unexpected Infant Death, Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome, or Sudden Death in the Young. Louisiana's health department must send these cases to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health's Sudden Unexpected Death in Infants and Sudden Death in the Young Case Registry. The law also allows registry information to be obtained or provided without the client's written consent by specified groups. These include the health department, public health units and their agents, coroners, autopsy contractors, parents or guardians, schools, and early learning centers. Immunization records used under these registry rules are not treated as privileged communications between a health care provider and patient.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Patrick McMath

    Republican • Senate

Cosponsors

  • Beryl Amedée

    Republican • House

  • Beth Mizell

    Republican • Senate

  • Brach Jerad Myers

    Republican • Senate

  • Cameron Henry

    Republican • Senate

  • Charles Owen

    Republican • House

  • Dixon Wallace McMakin

    Republican • House

  • Gary Carter

    Democratic • Senate

  • Jacob Jules Landry

    Republican • House

  • Jack "Jay" William Gallé Jr.

    Republican • House

  • Jeremy Stine

    Republican • Senate

  • John E. Wyble

    Republican • House

  • Kellee Hennessy Dickerson

    Republican • House

  • Mark Abraham

    Republican • Senate

  • Mark Wright

    Affiliation unavailable

  • Michael Robert Bayham Jr.

    Republican • House

  • Regina Barrow

    Democratic • Senate

  • Stewart Cathey Jr.

    Republican • Senate

  • Valarie Hodges

    Republican • Senate

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 242 • No: 23

House vote • 5/31/2026

Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 85, nays 11. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.

Yes: 85 • No: 11

Senate vote • 5/29/2026

Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.

Yes: 36 • No: 0

House vote • 5/7/2026

Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 76, nays 12. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 76 • No: 12

House vote • 4/29/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 10 • No: 0

Senate vote • 3/23/2026

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. 732.

    6/2/2026Senate

  2. Effective date 8/1/2026.

    6/2/2026Senate

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

    6/1/2026Senate

  4. Signed by the Speaker of the House.

    6/1/2026House

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

    6/1/2026Senate

  6. Read by title, returned to the calendar.

    5/31/2026House

  7. Called from the calendar.

    5/31/2026House

  8. Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 85, nays 11. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.

    5/31/2026House

  9. Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.

    5/31/2026Senate

  10. Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.

    5/29/2026Senate

  11. Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.

    5/29/2026House

  12. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/31/2026.

    5/29/2026House

  13. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/29/2026.

    5/27/2026House

  14. Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules.

    5/26/2026House

  15. Conference committee report received.

    5/26/2026Senate

  16. Notice of Senate conferees appointed.

    5/25/2026House

  17. Senate conference committee members appointed: McMath, Luneau, and Owen.

    5/21/2026Senate

  18. House conferees appointed: Egan, Miller, and Berault.

    5/19/2026House

  19. Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.

    5/19/2026Senate

  20. Notice of Senate rejecting House amendments.

    5/18/2026House

  21. Received from the House with amendments.

    5/11/2026Senate

  22. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 76, nays 12. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

    5/7/2026House

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

    5/6/2026House

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

    5/6/2026House

  25. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.

    5/5/2026House

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