Bills & Legislation

INSURERS: Requires insurers to provide a minimum twenty percent discount to insureds participating in the Louisiana Fortify Homes Program. (gov sig)

Royce DuplessisDemocrat

EMPLOYMENT: Establishes the Retail Service Worker Health and Safety Act. (8/1/25) (OR INCREASE GF EX See Note)

Joseph Bouie

EMPLOYMENT: Provides relative to the state minimum wage. (gov sig) (OR INCREASE GF EX See Note)

Gary CarterDemocrat

ENERGY/CONSERVATION: Prohibits the exercise of eminent domain or unitization for a pipeline that carries carbon dioxide

Rodney SchamerhornRepublican

INSURANCE/GROUP-STATE: To provide for the cost share of certain insurance premiums for programs sponsored by the state's Office of Group Benefits (OR INCREASE SG EX See Note)

Jerome ZeringueRepublican

CIVIL/LAW: Provides relative to in vitro fertilization

Paula Davis

RACING/HORSE: Provides relative to horse racing (OR NO IMPACT See Note)

Robby CarterDemocrat

TAX/SALES & USE: Extends the state and local sales and use tax exemption for ships and ships' supplies to certain digital products (OR DECREASE GF RV See Note)

Mark Wright

CORRECTIONS: Provides relative to electronic monitoring (OR +$3,849,837 GF EX See Note)

Timothy P. KernerRepublican

APPROPRIATIONS/JUDGMENT: Appropriates funds for payment of a consent judgment against the state in the suit entitled Direct General Ins. Co., of La. v Tonia Boggs et al. consolidated with William Tyler Walker et al. v. FCCI Ins. Co. et al.

Adrian FisherDemocrat

TAX/INCOME TAX: Establishes an individual income tax deduction for certain property insurance policy premiums (OR -$69,900,000 GF RV See Note)

Brian Leonard GloriosoRepublican

TAX/EXCISE: Increases the excise tax levied on consumable hemp products and dedicates revenues collected from the tax (OR +$5,100,000 SD RV See Note)

Michael Charles EcholsRepublican

LOCAL GOVERNMENT: Provides relative to renovations of certain property in historic preservation districts

Alonzo L. KnoxDemocrat

EMERGENCY MED TECH: Adds emergency medical services to the Fire Service Bill of Rights

Lauren VentrellaRepublican

PUBLIC SERVICE COMN: Provides relative to expanding the Public Service Commission (OR +$1,285,171 SG EX See Note)

Daryl Andrew DeshotelRepublican

WEAPONS: Provides relative to persons authorized to carry a concealed handgun without a permit. (8/1/25)

Gary CarterDemocrat

CIVIL PROCEDURE: Provides for recoverable damages and medical expenses for personal injury from a motor vehicle accident. (8/1/25)

Valarie HodgesRepublican

EMPLOYMENT: Provides for employment practices related to wage history, wage disclosure, and retaliation. (8/1/25)

Gary CarterDemocrat

TAX CREDITS: Authorizes income tax credits for businesses within certain manufacturing industries (OR DECREASE GF RV See Note)

Michael Charles EcholsRepublican

CIVIL/CLAIMS: Enacts the Speedy Tort Claims Act (OR SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)

Robby CarterDemocrat

GAMING/REVENUE: Provides relative to gaming revenue (OR +$36,222,500 GF RV See Note)

Shaun Raphael MenaDemocrat

MINERALS: To provide relative to remediation of oilfield sites (OR SEE FISC NOTE SD RV See Note)

Jacob Jules LandryRepublican

HEALTH: Provides for the Louisiana Cannabis Pilot Program (OR INCREASE SG RV See Note)

Candace N. NewellDemocrat

PROPERTY/IMMOVABLE: Provides relative to residential home improvements

Les FarnumRepublican

REAL ESTATE: Provides relative to real estate

Shane MackRepublican

APPROPRIATIONS/SUPPLEML: Appropriates funding to American Legion Post 383 for construction of a veterans memorial

Sylvia Elaine TaylorDemocrat

GAMING: Provides for nongaming economic development activities by the casino gaming operator. (8/1/25)

Royce DuplessisDemocrat

COLLEGES/UNIVERSITIES: Provides for mental health days for faculty, staff, and students in public education institutions. (8/1/25) (OR INCREASE GF EX See Note)

Larry Selders

WORKERS' COMPENSATION: Provides for preliminary determination hearings in workers' compensation. (1/1/27)

Alan SeabaughRepublican

FUNDS/FUNDING: Dedicates certain tax revenue to provide for supplemental payments to certain public elementary and secondary school employees and establishes the Educational Compensation Fund. (7/1/25) (OR -$199,500,000 GF RV See Note)

Royce DuplessisDemocrat

MOTOR VEHICLES: Provides relative to the Louisiana Motor Vehicle Commission

Kim CarverRepublican

SEWERAGE/N O WATER BD: Provides relative to the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans

Stephanie HilfertyRepublican

CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides for legislative continuances and extensions of time for legislators and legislative employees

Shaun Raphael MenaDemocrat

TAX/SALES-USE-EXEMPT: Provides relative to tax exemptions for charter boat fishing guides (OR DECREASE GF RV See Note)

Marcus Anthony BryantDemocrat

GAMBLING/VIDEO POKER: Provides for a local option gaming election on the operation of video draw poker devices in Claiborne Parish (OR INCREASE LF EX See Note)

Rashid Armand YoungDemocrat

TAX CREDITS: Establishes a corporate income tax credit for certain broker-dealer financial businesses (OR DECREASE GF RV See Note)

Michael Charles EcholsRepublican

TAX/SALES-USE-EXEMPT: Provides relative to the sales and use tax exemption for certain institutions of higher education (OR DECREASE GF RV See Note)

Michael Charles EcholsRepublican

CIVIL/LAW: Provides relative to transparency in asbestos actions

Mark Wright

CIVIL PROCEDURE: Provides for recoverable medical expenses, limitation upon jury trials and admissibility of evidence in civil actions. (8/1/25) (OR INCREASE LF EX See Note)

Gregory A. MillerRepublican

ENERGY: Authorizes the governing authority of Vernon Parish to determine whether Class VI carbon dioxide injection wells may be permitted within the parish (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF RV)

Charles OwenRepublican

HIGHER EDUCATION: Creates a uterine fibroids research center at Southern University (OR INCREASE GF EX See Note)

Joy WaltersDemocrat

APPROPRIATIONS/JUDGMENT: Appropriates funds for payment of the consent judgment against the state in the matter entitled Marchand v. State of La. et al.

Lauren VentrellaRepublican

CRIME/SEX OFFENSES: Creates the crime of indecent visual depiction of a minor (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

Foy Bryan GadberryRepublican

APPROPRIATIONS/JUDGMENT: Appropriates funds for payment of a consent judgment against the state in the suit entitled State Farm Mutual Automobile Ins. Co. v. Oliver et al.

Debbie VillioRepublican

APPROPRIATIONS/JUDGMENT: Appropriates funds for payment of a consent judgment against the state in the suit entitled State of La., through the Dept. of Transportation and Development v. Martin T. Frey et al.

Dixon Wallace McMakinRepublican

APPROPRIATIONS/JUDGMENT: Appropriates funds for payment of certain consent judgments against the state in the suit entitled William Mangum, individually and as surviving father of Hayden Lane Mangum v. La. Department of Wildlife and Fisheries et al. consolidated with Jacke Shaw Mangum v. State of La. et al.

Steven JacksonDemocrat

APPROPRIATIONS/JUDGMENT: Appropriates funds for payment of the consent judgment against the state in the suit entitled Landon Howard Powell, et al v. State of Louisiana, et al

Daryl Andrew DeshotelRepublican