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Discrimination | SB 1 | Senator Patrick McMath (R) | Constitutional amendment to provide for freedom from discrimination relative to immunization status | Pending Senate Health and Welfare |
Vaccination Status | SB 2 | Senator Patrick McMath (R) | Requires acceptance of a COVID-19 antibody test result in satisfaction of any requirement for proof of vaccine. | Pending Senate Health and Welfare |
Environment | SB 3 | Senator Bret Allain (R) | Proposed law changes the deposit from 50% to the Coastal Resources Trust Fund to 75% to the Coastal Protection and Restoration Fund | Signed by the Governor - Act 282 |
Criminal Justice | SB 4 | Senator John "Jay" Morris (R) | Constitutional amendment to eliminate judge's discretion to grant bail for certain offenses after conviction but prior to sentencing. | Pending House Administration of Criminal Justice |
Vaccination Status | SB 11 | Senator Patrick McMath (R) | Proposed law adds immunization status as a protected class. | Pending Senate Health and Welfare |
Workers Rights | SB 12 | Senator Mike Reese (R) | Provides for an extension of the Competitive Projects Payroll Incentive Program. | Signed by the Governor - Act 249 |
Environment | SB 20 | Senator Cleo Fields (D) | Requires air monitoring systems in certain permitted facilities | Pending Senate Environmental Quality |
Environment | SB 23 | Senator Bret Allain (R) | Provides for the deposit of monies into the Oilfield Site Restoration Fund. | Signed by the Governor - Act 251 |
PreK-12 | SB 24 | Senator Cleo Fields (D) | To provide a rebate for elementary and secondary teachers providing full-time classroom instruction in this state up to $1,000 | Pending Senate Revenue and Fiscal Affairs |
PreK-12 | SB 25 | Senator Franklin Foil (R) | Provides for earnings enhancements for the START K12 Program. | Pending Senate Finance |
Health | SB 29 | Senator Stewart Cathey (R) | Prohibits discrimination against healthcare professionals and provides for protection of healthcare professional credentials | Pending Senate Health and Welfare |
Vaccination Status | SB 37 | Senator Michael Fesi (R) | Prohibits denial of healthcare services based on vaccination status | Pending Senate Health and Welfare |
Workers Rights | SB 41 | Senator Mike Reese (R) | Extends the Louisiana Quality Jobs Program Act. | Signed by the Governor - Act 254 |
Discrimination | SB 44 | Senator Beth Mizell (R) | Provides for the Fairness in Women's Sports Act relative to a school's ability to offer equal opportunities to each student to participate in team sporting events on an equal basis | Became law without the Governor's signature - Act 283 |
PreK-12 | SB 47 | Senator Cleo Fields (D) | Requires public schools to offer prekindergarten instruction | Sent to Governor |
PreK-12 | SB 50 | Senator Sharon Hewitt (R) | Provides for public school choice in certain high school programs | Sent to Governor |
Government Affairs | SB 51 | Senator Beth Mizell (R) | Adds a second commissioner to the Twenty-Second Judicial District Court and authorizes commissioners to preside over domestic violence cases and civil matters | Sent to Governor |
Firearms | SB 53 | Senator Franklin Foil (R) | Provides certain exceptions to the crime of illegal carrying of weapons. | Signed by the Governor - Act 126 |
Vaccination Status | SB 58 | Senator Michael Fesi (R) | Provides relative to privacy of immunization status. | Pending Senate Health and Welfare |
Health | SB 59 | Senator Fred Mills (R) | Provides relative to prepayment reviews conducted by Medicaid managed care organizations. | Sent to Governor |
Health | SB 60 | Senator Stewart Cathey (R) | provides that a physician who attends a pregnant woman during labor or delivery shall take or have taken a sample of her blood within eight hours after delivery to identify the presence of any controlled dangerous substance. | Pending Senate Health and Welfare |
Environment | SB 65 | Senator Patrick Connick (R) | requires the secretary to adopt, promulgate, and enforce standards, limitations, and other regulations for sources that are not required to obtain a permit. | Pending Senate Environmental Quality |
Criminal Justice | SB 66 | Senator Patrick Connick (R) | provides enhanced penalties when the offender goes to the residence or household, school, or place of employment of the person for whose benefit the protective order is in effect while in possession of a firearm | Signed by the Governor - Act 75 |
Criminal Justice | SB 69 | Senator Patrick Connick (R) | Provides relative to protections for crime victims | Sent to Governor |
Criminal Justice | SB 71 | Senator Patrick Connick (R) | Provides relative to the district attorney's discretion to prosecute a juvenile as an adult for certain offenses. | Signed by the Governor - Act 175 |
Criminal Justice | SB 72 | Senator Patrick Connick (R) | Removes judges' ability to dismiss cases for good cause in juvenile court | Signed by the Governor - Act 176 |
Elections and Voting | SB 74 | Senator Sharon Hewitt (R) | Proposed law provides that any qualified Louisiana voter who is not a candidate in the election may serve as a poll watcher. | Signed by the Governor - Act 178 |
PreK-12 | SB 76 | Senator Cleo Fields (D) | Provides that certain graduate students shall be exempt from mandatory student fees. | Sent to Governor |
PreK-12 | SB 81 | Senator Mack White (R) | Repeals requirement for the Taylor Opportunity Program for Students information reporting system to include demographic information of award recipients. | Sent to Governor |
Discrimination | SB 92 | Senator Stewart Cathey (R) | Prohibits employers from discriminating against employees due to their medical history. | House Labor and Industrial Relations |
Environment | SB 110 | Senator Mike Reese (R) | Creates the Louisiana Electric Investment Recovery Securitization Act | Signed by the Governor - Act 255 |
Health | SB 116 | Senator Regina Barrow (D) | Creates the office on women's health within the Louisiana Department of Health. | Sent to Governor |
Environment | SB 125 | Senator Michael Fesi (R) | Provides for actions arising from coastal use permits | Pending Senate Natural Resources |
Criminal Justice | SB 142 | Senator Jay Morris (R) | Prohibits violent offenders from being released under certain circumstances | Sent to Governor |
Firearms | SB 143 | Senator John "Jay" Morris (R) | Provides relative to the concealed carrying of firearms. | Sent to Governor |
Elections and Voting | SB 144 | Senator Fred Mills (R) | Present law provides that any voter may vote at an early voting site in a parish where the voter is registered to vote. | Sent to Governor |
Health | SB 147 | Senator Beth Mizell (R) | Provides for sexual assault survivors to have access to certain documents from the forensic medical exam. | Sent to Governor |
Criminal Justice | SB 148 | Senator Beth Mizell (R) | Provides for post-conviction relief for victims of human trafficking. | Signed by the Governor - Act 130 |
Fiscal | SB 151 | Senator J. Rogers Pope (R) | Constitutional amendment to provide for local governmental input in the Industrial Tax Exemption Program. | Failed Senate floor |
Environment | SB 155 | Senator Patrick Connick (R) | Prohibits certain uses of single-use plastic bags. | Pending Senate Environmental Quality |
Firearms | SB 161 | Senator Kirk Talbot (R) | Increases penalty for crime of carjacking when committed with a firearm or other dangerous weapon | Signed by the Governor - Act 131 |
PreK-12 | SB 169 | Senator Beth Mizell (R) | Requires annual meetings of and reports from the Early Childhood Care and Education Commission. (gov sig) | Signed by the Governor - Act 82 |
Workers Rights | SB 173 | Senator Mike Reese (R) | Provides for program changes to the Louisiana Quality Jobs Program Act. | Pending Senate Revenue and Fiscal Affairs |
Fiscal | SB 174 | Senator Mike Reese (R) | Provides relative to shareholder remedies within the state banking code | Signed by the Governor - Act 261 |
Health | SB 175 | Senator Regina Barrow (D) | Removal of Collaborative Practice Agreement | Pending Senate Health and Welfare |
Health | SB 184 | Senator Gerald Bordeaux | Provides relative to Family Independence Temporary Assistance Program (FITAP) participants. | WITHDRAWN |
PreK-12 | SB 189 | Senator Mack Bodi White (R) | Provides relative to the jurisdiction of the Central Community School System | Subject to call - House final passage |
Environment | SB 197 | Senator Mack Bodi White (R) | Allows industry representative to serve on groundwater commission | Sent to Governor |
Elections and Voting | SB 199 | Senator Gary Smith (D) | Proposed constitution requires all elections to be fair and equal and disallows the interference with or prevention from exercise of the right to vote by any power, civil or military. | Subject to call - Senate final passage |
Criminal Justice | SB 221 | Senator Katrina Jackson (D) | Proposed law provides that the defendant may file a motion to reconsider sentence when the offender has been sentenced for greater than the current maximum, when the defendant was convicted of possession of marijuana in an amount of 14 grams or less and provides the motion must be in writing and must provide evidence necessary to support the claim. | Pending Senate Judiciary C |
Government Affairs | SB 225 | Senator Sharon Hewitt (R) | Constitutional Amendment to provide for remote operations of the legislature during a declared emergency | Subject to call - House final passage |
Criminal Justice | SB 226 | Senator Heather Cloud (R) | Constitutional amendment to allow the attorney general to institute, prosecute, or intervene in any criminal action or proceeding concerning a felony election offense. | Pending Senate and Governmental Affairs |
Health | SB 233 | Senator Patrick McMath (R) | provides there is presumption that the purpose of a lease of a dwelling or residential property is for habitation. | Pending Senate Judiciary A |
Criminal Justice | SB 234 | Senator Katrina Jackson (D) | Constitutional amendment to allow adult prosecution and enhanced penalties against juveniles in correctional facilities who commit assault or battery against an employee or juvenile. | Subject to call - House final passage |
PreK-12 | SB 238 | Senator Katrina Jackson (D) | Removes the reduced price co-payment for reduced school lunches | Senate Finance |
PreK-12 | SB 238 | Senator Katrina Jackson (D) | Removes the reduced-price copayment for school meals. | Pending Senate Education |
Fiscal | SB 246 | Senator Bret R.L. Allain (R) | Constitutional amendment to authorize parishes to exempt inventory from ad valorem taxation. | Senate Final Passage |
Health | SB 249 | Senator Regina Barrow (D) | Would close sober living homes, transitional housing for FIPs, and most group homes | WITHDRAWN |
Criminal Justice | SB 251 | Senator Regina Barrow (D) | Provides for expert testimony for defendants seeking to show justification at the time of the crime | |
Criminal Justice | SB 252 | Senator Regina Barrow (D) | Proposed law provides that when an offender commits a sex offense on a victim who is under the age of 13 at the time of the offense, the court may sentence the offender to surgical castration, to be performed by a licensed physician. | Pending Senate Judiciary C |
Criminal Justice | SB 255 | Senator Regina Barrow (D) | Provides relative to court costs and fees in domestic abuse cases. | Sent to Governor |
PreK-12 | SB 256 | Senator Regina Barrow (D) | Proposed law requires the principal, prior to suspending a student, to ensure that the student is assessed using an instrument, such as the Adverse Childhood Experiences Assessment developed by the Centers for Disease Control, that is designed to determine if the student has experienced trauma. Further requires the results of the assessment to be used to determine whether the student's behavior may be better addressed in a manner other than through suspension. | Failed House final passage |
Elections and Voting | SB 258 | Senator Sharon Hewitt (R) | Provides relative to voting and the holding of elections impaired as the result of a declared emergency or disaster. | Signed by the Governor - Act 286 |
Fiscal | SB 259 | Senator Sharon Hewitt (R) | Provides reporting requirements for certain state agencies that administer certain federal and state social service or financial assistance programs. | Sent to Governor |
Health | SB 268 | Senator Beth Mizell (R) | Provides relative to opioid treatment programs for pregnant women. | Sent to Governor |
Workers Rights | SB 269 | Senator Regina Barrow (D) | Proposed constitutional amendment sets the state minimum hourly wage rate at $10.25. Proposed constitutional amendment provides that the state minimum wage rate will be increased by rate of inflation for the 12-month period prior to that September according to the Consumer Price Index or its successor index. | Pending Senate Labor and Industrial Relations |
Criminal Justice | SB 273 | Senator Franklin Foil (R) | Provides parole eligibility for certain offenders. | Sent to Governor |
Fiscal | SB 277 | Senator Patrick Cortez (R) | Creates the Megaprojects Leverage Fund. | Sent to Governor |
Firearms | SB 287 | Senator Louie Bernard (R) | Provides for lifetime concealed handgun permits and reduces the permit fee. | Pending Senate Judiciary C |
Government Affairs | SB 288 | Senator Sharon Hewitt (R) | Constitutional Amendment to increase the composition of the Louisiana Supreme Court from six to eight associate justices. | Pending Senate and Governmental Affairs |
Workers Rights | SB 289 | Senator Regina Barrow (D) | Provides for employee paid sick days | Pending Senate Labor and Industrial Relations |
Environment | SB 292 | Senator Sharon Hewitt (R) | Provides for regulation of greenhouse emissions. | Pending Senate Environmental Quality |
Criminal Justice | SB 294 | Senator Katrina Jackson (D) | Eliminates the death penalty for offenses committed on or after August 1, 2022, and allocates savings generated to Early Childhood Education Fund literacy programs. | Pending Senate Judiciary C |
Criminal Justice | SB 295 | Senator Regina Barrow (D) | Provides for parole eligibility for certain offenders. | Pending Senate Judiciary C |
Criminal Justice | SB 303 | Senator Franklin Foil (R) | Provides for occupational or professional licensure of a person with a criminal history | Pending Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs |
Criminal Justice | SB 304 | Senator Stewart Cathey, JR (R) | Provides relative to commutation of a prison sentence for good behavior | Sent to Governor |
Government Affairs | SB 306 | Senator Cleo Fields (D) | Provides relative to the districts for elected members of the United States Congress. | Pending Senate and Governmental Affairs |
Government Affairs | SB 307 | Senator Cleo Fields (D) | Provides for redistricting of the Louisiana Supreme Court. | Pending Senate and Governmental Affairs |
Government Affairs | SB 308 | Senator Sharon Hewitt (R) | Provides for redistricting of the Supreme Court. | Pending Senate and Governmental Affairs |
Government Affairs | SB 309 | Senator Sharon Hewitt (R) | Provides for redistricting of the Supreme Court. | Pending Senate and Governmental Affairs |
Health | SB 315 | Senator Glen Womack (R) | Provides relative to fentanyl. | Sent to Governor |
Criminal Justice | SB 323 | Senator Heather Cloud (R) | Proposed law requires the deputy secretary for youth services adopt rules to develop and implement a tiered system of secure juvenile facilities in the state for the placement of juveniles in the custody of the office of juvenile justice. | Sent to Governor |
Fiscal | SB 325 | Senator Gary Carter (D) | Provides for the creation, transfer, dedication, deposit and use of the HOPE Fund. | Pending Senate Finance |
Firearms | SB 327 | Senator Gary Carter (D) | Provides for the seizure of firearms from persons who pose a risk of imminent injury to self or others. | Pending Senate Judiciary C |
Criminal Justice | SB 335 | Senator Katrina Jackson (D) | Provides for a juvenile in a correctional facility to serve additional time when he commits an assault or battery on an employee of the facility or another juvenile in the facility. | Subject to call - House final passage |
Criminal Justice | SB 336 | Senator Gary Smith (D) | Provides for determination of parole eligibility for juveniles under certain circumstances. | Pending Senate Judiciary B |
Health | SB 342 | Senator Katrina Jackson (D) | Provides relative to the application of abortion statutes. | Sent to Governor |
Elections and Voting | SB 343 | Senator Gary Carter (D) | Requires each parish to have at least two early voting locations and requires early voting locations for certain municipalities. | Pending Senate and Governmental Affairs |
Elections and Voting | SB 350 | Senator Heather Cloud (R) | Provides relative to elections. | Sent to Governor |
Environment | SB 354 | Senator Stewart Cathey | establishes the "Louisiana Consumer Fuel Choice Act". | Sent to Governor |
Criminal Justice | SB 357 | Senator Katrina Jackson (D) | Proposed law retains present law but adds the crime of manslaughter to be considered for expungement, and changes the number of years from 10 to five to meet the conditions. Further provides as a condition that the person has been gainfully employed with no lapse in employment for more than 30 days during the five year period. | Pending Senate Judiciary C |
Criminal Justice | SB 365 | Senator Regina Barrow (D) | Creates the Louisiana Domestic Violence Registry | Pending Senate Judiciary B |
Elections and Voting | SB 369 | Senator Jimmy Harris (D) | Provides for compensation for certain election workers. | Sent to Governor |
Criminal Justice | SB 370 | Senator Jimmy Harris (D) | Provides for parent participation after adjudication of a delinquent act committed by their juvenile child. | Sent to Governor |
Firearms | SB 379 | Senator Barrow Peacock (R) | Prohibits possession of firearms, ammunition, or electric weapons or devices by certain felons. Adds juvenile adjudications to crime of felon in possession of a firearm | Sent to Governor |
Fiscal | SB 381 | Senator Rick Ward (R) | Creates the "Louisiana Credit Access Loan Act". | Vetoed by Governor |
Environment | SB 384 | Senator Michael Fesi (R) | Prohibits banks from "discriminating" against oil and gas companies | Pending Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs |
Health | SB 388 | Senator Sharon Hewitt (R) | Prohibits the sale of certain abortion inducing drugs without a prescription and creates the crime of criminal induced chemical abortion. | Sent to Governor |
Criminal Justice | SB 389 | Senator Mike Reese (R) | Provides relative to the suspension of driver's licenses for failure to pay taxes. (gov sig) | Sent to Governor |
Environment | SB 390 | Senator Mack Bodi White (R) | Proposed law creates the Oil and Gas Industry Employment Incentive Program | Substitute adopted on the Senate floor (became SB495) |
Criminal Justice | SB 418 | Senator Stewart Cathey, Jr (R) | Provides relative to the age of juveniles. | Subject to call - House final passage |
Elections and Voting | SB 478 | Senator Louie Bernard (R) | Provides relative to the public records law | Sent to Governor |
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