This committee hears bills that include topics such as agricultural chemistry, economics, research, production, promotion, marketing, and services generally. It also hears bills regarding the regulation of forestry, livestock and meat products, rural development, soil conservation, and other related items.

Chair: Stewart Cathey Jr.

Vice-Chair: Glen Womack

Members: Katrina R. Jackson, John C. “Jay” Morris, Eddie J. Lambert

This committee hears bills that include topics such as banking and its regulation, corporations, credit unions, small loan companies and the regulation, licensing and standards of professions, businesses and occupations. It also hears bills about tourism and communications by telephone, telegraph, radio, television or other media

Chair: Mike Reese

Vice-Chair: Cameron Henry

Members: Mark Abraham, Stewart Cathey Jr., Patrick Connick, Cleo Fields, Jimmy Harris, John C. “Jay” Morris, Kirk Talbot

This committee hears bills that include topics such as primary, secondary, vocational, and adult education. This committee hears bills regarding colleges and universities, state and public libraries, cultural affairs, museums, and the school lunch program.

Chair: Cleo Fields

Vice-Chair: Katrina R. Jackson

Members: Mark Abraham, Beth Mizell, Kirk Talbot

This committee hears bills that include topics such as air quality, Hazardous waste, pollution, solid waste regulation, water resources, and environmental control and regulation generally.

Chair: Chair: Eddie J. Lambert

Vice-Chair:

Ex Officio: Stewart Cathey, Jr.

Members: Patrick Connick, Royce Duplessis, Bob Hensgens, Edward J. Price

This committee hears bills that include topics such as the appropriation of state funds, budget requirements and procedures, fiscal controls, the general appropriations bill, and general finance matters.

Chair:

Vice-Chair: Heather Cloud

Members: Mark Abraham, Regina Barrow, Gerald Boudreaux, Michael “Big Mike” Fesi, Jimmy Harris, Cameron, Glen Womack

Interim Members: Katrina R. Jackson

This committee hears bills that include topics such as child care facilities, elderly affairs, public and private hospitals, nursing homes, veterans affairs, vocational rehabilitation, and other health and welfare topics.

Chair:

Vice-Chair: Regina Barrow

Members: Gerald Boudreaux, Gary Carter, Bob Hensgens, Jay Luneau, Patrick McMath, Beth Mizell

This committee hears bills that include topics such as casualty, health, life, property, and other insurance topics.

Chair: Kirk Talbot

Vice-Chair:

Ex Officio: Mike Reese

Members: Royce Duplessis, Michael “Big Mike” Fesi, Katrina R. Jackson, Jeremy Stine, Barrow Peacock

Interim Members: Joseph Bouie

These committees may hear bills that include topics such as the Attorney General, District Attorneys, prosecutors, clerks of court and records of the courts. They include topics regarding the Department of Corrections, prisons, jails, rehabilitation, juvenile code, criminal code, the Department of Public Safety, state police, Sheriffs, and the National Guard. This committee hears bills regarding the Supreme Court, Courts of Appeal, District Courts, Family Courts, Municipal and Parish Courts, Mayor’s Courts, Justice of the Peace Courts, and Juvenile Courts, including traffic offenses. This committee hears bills related to the Civil Code such as marriage, divorce, and family law. It also hears controlled dangerous substance law and procedure, weapons and explosives, and the administration of criminal justice generally.

This committee may also hear bills related to constitutional rights or state boundary lines.

Chair:

Vice-Chair: Jimmy Harris

Members: Heather Cloud, Cleo Fields, Jay Luneau, Jeremy Stine

These committees may hear bills that include topics such as the Attorney General, District Attorneys, prosecutors, clerks of court and records of the courts. They include topics regarding the Department of Corrections, prisons, jails, rehabilitation, juvenile code, criminal code, the Department of Public Safety, state police, Sheriffs, and the National Guard. This committee hears bills regarding the Supreme Court, Courts of Appeal, District Courts, Family Courts, Municipal and Parish Courts, Mayor’s Courts, Justice of the Peace Courts, and Juvenile Courts, including traffic offenses. This committee hears bills related to the Civil Code such as marriage, divorce, and family law. It also hears controlled dangerous substance law and procedure, weapons and explosives, and the administration of criminal justice generally.

This committee may also hear bills related to constitutional rights or state boundary lines.

Chair:

Vice-Chair:

Members: Joseph Bouie, Cameron Henry, Patrick McMath, Mike Reese, Kirk Talbot

These committees may hear bills that include topics such as the Attorney General, District Attorneys, prosecutors, clerks of court and records of the courts. They include topics regarding the Department of Corrections, prisons, jails, rehabilitation, juvenile code, criminal code, the Department of Public Safety, state police, Sheriffs, and the National Guard. This committee hears bills regarding the Supreme Court, Courts of Appeal, District Courts, Family Courts, Municipal and Parish Courts, Mayor’s Courts, Justice of the Peace Courts, and Juvenile Courts, including traffic offenses. This committee hears bills related to the Civil Code such as marriage, divorce, and family law. It also hears controlled dangerous substance law and procedure, weapons and explosives, and the administration of criminal justice generally.

This committee may also hear bills related to constitutional rights or state boundary lines.

Chair: Franklin J. Foil

Vice-Chair: Mark Abraham

Members: Regina Barrow, Gary Carter, Caleb Kleinpeter, Beth Mizell

This committee may hear bills that include topics such as child labor, collective bargaining, employment insurance, labor disputes, unemployment compensation, wages and hours of labor, and other labor matters.

Chair: Jay Luneau

Vice-Chair: John C. “Jay” Morris

Members: Regina Barrow, Stewart Cathey Jr., Royce Duplessis, Jeramy Stine, Glen Womack

This committee hears bills including topics related to local government activities and their employees, parish governing authorities and tax collection, local tax revenue, and urban, parochial and regional planning. It also includes bills related to drainage, sewerage, water, and economic development districts and the department of Urban and Community Affairs and Local, parochial and municipal affairs generally.

Chair: Joseph Bouie

Vice-Chair: Gerald Boudreaux

Members: Heather Cloud, Franklin J. Foil, Cameron Henry

This committee hears bills including topics such as conservation, mines, minerals, mineral codes, parks and recreation, pipelines, wildlife and fisheries, public and private lands and other natural resources.

Chair: Bob Hensgens

Vice-Chair: Michael “Big Mike” Fesi

Members: Patrick Connick, Eddie J. Lambert, Patrick McMath

This committee hears bills including topics such as retirement systems supported in whole or in part by funds of the state, retirement of state officials, employees, judges, school employees, teachers, and other state employees.

Chair: Edward J. Price

Vice-Chair:

Members: Cleo Fields, Bob Hensgens, Beth Mizell, Kirk Talbot

This committee hears bills including topics such as taxes, revenue measures including collection, bond issuance, the bond portion of the comprehensive state capital budget, the Department of Revenue and Taxation, Tax Commission and the Board of Tax Appeals, the investment of public monies.

Chair:

Vice-Chair: Patrick Connick

Members: Joseph Bouie, Eddie J. Lambert, Jay Luneau, Patrick McMath, John C. “Jay” Morris, Mike Reese

Interim Members: Stewart Cathey Jr., Jeremy Stine

This committee hears bills that include topics such as apportionment for public officials and governing authorities, creation of all legislative committees and proposals for interim studies by committees, governmental ethics, rules and procedures of the Senate and the Legislature, and election, state political parties and their committees and offices, and other matters relating to government affairs.

Chair: Joseph Bouie

Vice-Chair:

Members: Franklin Foil, Caleb Kleinpeter, Edward J. Price, Glen Womack

This committee hears bills that include topics such as highways, roads, bridges, ports, railroads, air, bus, levee districts, and pipelines.

Chair: Patrick McMath

Vice-Chair: Gary Carter

Members: Edward J. Price, Bob Hensgens

This committee hears bills that include topics such as criminal law, code of criminal procedure, controlled substance law and proceudre, weapons, traffic offenses, prisons, juvenile justice, gambling, criminal justice generally, and other related topics.

Chair: Debbie Villio

Vice-Chair: Vanessa LaFleur

Members: Dodie Horton, Roy Daryl Adams, Lauren Ventrella, Vincent Cox, Alonzo Knox, Joy Walters, Pat Moore, Chad Boyer, Bryan Fontenot, Jeff Wiley, Tony Bacala

This committee hears bills that include topics such as aquaculture, agricultural, and industrial chemistry, economics, and research, agriculture on public lands, animal industry, the forestry industries, livestock and meat products, rural development, and other agricultural generally.

Chair: Troy Romero

Vice-Chair: C. Travis Johnson

Members: Chad Boyer, Beryl Amedee, Vinny St. Blanc, Adrian Fisher, Rhonda Butler, Chris Turner, Wayne McMahen, Larry Selders, John Wyble, Rodney Schamerhorn, Larry Bagley, Chance Henry, Kim Coates, Jacob Landry, Marcus Bryant, Danny McCormick, Francis Thompson

This committee hears bills that include topics such as appropriation and expenditure of state funds, the general appropriation bill, and the deposit and investment of public money. Additionally, the committee hears bills that study the economy and efficiency of government at all levels, budget requirements and procedures, and the comprehensive state capital budget after the Committee on Ways and Means.

Chair: Jack McFarland

Vice-Chair: Jason Hughes

Members: Larry Bagley, Dodie Horton, Adrian Fisher, Francis Thompson, Jason Dewitt, Chuch Owen, Dewith Carrier, Tory Romero, Rhonda Butler, Beryl Amedee, Zee Zeringue, C. Denise Marcelle, Roy Daryl Adams, Barbara Carpenter, Barbara Freiberg, Kim Coates, Stephanie Berault, John Illg, Tim Kerner, Rodney Lyons, Shane Mack, Aimee Freeman, Vanessa LaFleur

This committee hears bills that include topics such as marriage, divorce, family law, Code of Civil Procedure, and civil procedure generally. Additionally they hear bills regarding notaries public and their records, civil Constitutional rights, proposed amendments to the state constitution, and other the civil law matters.

Chair: Nicky Muscarelleo

Vice-Chair: Chris Turner

Members: Michael, Melerine, Ed Lavardain, Mike Johnson, Wilford Carter, Josh Carlson, Sylvia Taylor, Chad Brown, Lauren Ventrella, Emily Chenevert, Peter Egan, John Wyble, Kathy Edmonston, Brian Glorioso

This committee hears bills that include topics such as regulation of banking; communication by telephone, telegraph, radio and television; registering and licensing of small boats; consumer protection; merchandising; Regulation, licensing, or certification of non health related occupations; Interest rates; Savings and loan and homestead associations; Small loan companies; Regulation and licensing of businesses and occupations; Corporations; Tourism; and Commerce generally.

Chair: Daryl Deshotel

Vice-Chair: Polly Thomas

Members: Danny McCormick, Neil Riser, Shaun Mena, Edmond Jordon, Troy Herbert, Jacob Landry, Vinny St. Blanc, Jessica Domangue, Dixon McMakin, PaulaDacvis, Kyle Green, Vincent Cox, Kim Carver, Alonzo Knox, Stephanie Hilfery, Candace Newell, Delisha Boyd

This committee hears bills that include topics such as schools and secondary education, school employees and their pay, colleges and universities, vocational technical education, adult education, the school lunch program, state and public libraries, and educational television.

Chair: Laurie Schlegel

Vice-Chair: Beryl Amedee

Members: Chuck Owen, Barbara Carpenter, Barbara Freiberg, Michael Melerine, Sylvia Taylor, Kathy Edmonston, Vinny St. Blanc, Philip Tarver, Rashid Young, Ken Brass

This committee hears bills that include topics such as public and private hospitals, health offices and their administration, services for people with disabilities, mental health institutions, nursing homes, research training and rehabilitation for public welfare, the regulation of health related occupations, and health and welfare generally.

Chair: Dustin Miller

Vice-Chair: Rhonda Butler

Members: Adrian Fisher, Stephanie Berault, Jason Hughes, Chris Turner, Emily Chenevert, Peter Egan, Steven Jackson, Kellee Hennessey Dickerson, Wayne McMahen, Michael Echols, Brach Myers, Larry Selders, Raymond Crews, Joe Stagni

This committee hears bills that include topics such as legislative rules and procedures, use of funds by the Legislature, rules or laws regarding the Legislature or executive branches of governments, creation of all legislative committees, registrar of voters, and the operation of elections, state political parties and their committees, and other House legislative items.

Chair: Beau Beaullieu

Vice-Chair: Rodney Lyons

Members: C. Denise Marcelle, Ed Larvadain, Mike Johnson, Wilford Carter, Josh Carlson, John Wyble, Polly Thomas, Kim Carver, Candace Newell, Delisha Boyd, Rodney Schamerhorn, Les Farnum, Beth Billings, Foy Gadberry, Mark Wright

This committee hears bills that include topics such as private and public insurance systems, employment insurance, motor vehicle insurance, and other insurance related items.

Chair: Gabe Firment

Vice-Chair: Chad Brown

Members: Larry Bagley, John Illg, Aimee Freeman, Brian Glorioso, Shaun Mena, Edmond Jordon, Troy Hebert, Kyle Green, Tammy Phelps, Jacob Braud, Dennis Bamburg, Chance Henry, Roger Wilder, Mandie Landry, Matthew Willard, Jay Galle

This committee hears bills that include topics such as the courts and the matters of the jurisdiction of these courts and judges. This committee also hears all matters relating to the Attorney General, District Attorneys and prosecutors, law enforcement and the Department of Public Safety, Sheriffs, clerks of court and records of the Courts, the National guard, Code of Military Justice and the Adjutant General, civil defense and disaster protection and state and local government boundary lines and miscellaneous matters not covered by other standing committees.

Chair: Robby Carter

Vice-Chair: Kathy Edmonston

Members: Vanessa LaFleur, Lauren Ventrella, Jeff Wiley, Jason Hughes, Emily Chenevert, Kellee Hennessey Dickerson, Wilford Carter, Chad Brown, Troy Hebert, Kyle Green, Jacob Braud, Mandie Landry, Jay Galle, Zee Zeringue, Shane Mack, Jeremy Lacombe, Joe Orgeron

This committee hears bills that include topics such as wages and hours of labor, workers’ compensation, labor standards, unemployment compensation, labor disputes and labor and industrial relations generally.

Chair: Raymond Crews

Vice-Chair: Dodie Horton

Members: Joy Walters, Barbara Carpenter, Michael Melerine, Philip Tarver, Michael Echols, Ed Larvadain, Brian Glorioso, Shaun Mena, Tammy Phelps, Dennis Bamburg, Roger Wilder, Jason Dewsitt, Tehmi Chaisoon, Dixon McMakin

This committee hears bills that include topics such as local government, sewerage and water districts, assistance to municipal and local governments, local taxes, local ordinances, state and urban planning, state parks and recreational districts, museums and local and municipal affairs generally.

Chair: Foy Gadberry

Vice-Chair: Barbara Freiberg

Members: Vincent Cox, Alonzo Knox, Pat Moore, Bryan Fontenot, Chuck Owen, Rashid Young, Steven Jackson, Joe Stagni, C. Denise Marcelle, Rodney Lyons, Kim Carver, Candace Newell, Les Farnum, Beth Billings, Matthew Willard, Jessica Domangue, Mike Bayham

This committee hears bills that include topics such as conservation, wildlife and fisheries, mines, hunting, fishing, and recreational boating. Additionally, it hears bills regarding public lands, laws regulating minerals and mining, materials or substances which travel through pipelines, and other natural resources generally.

Chair: Brett Geymann

Vice-Chair: Joe Orgeron

Members: Jason Dewitt, Dewith Carrier, Zee Zeringue, Kim Coates, Tim Kerner, Shane Mack, Neil Riser, Jacob Landry, C. Travis Johnson, Tehmi Chaisson, Jeremy Lacombe, Marcus Bryant, Danny McCormick

This committee hears bills that include topics such as matters relating to retirement of all state officials, state employees, teachers and school employees, and judges.

Chair: Tony Bacala

Vice-Chair: John Illg

Members: Roy Daryl Adams, Sylvia Taylor, Ken Brass, Stephanie Berault, Peter Egan, Brach Myers, Josh Carlson, Polly Thomas, Delisha Boyd, Aimee Freeman, Edmond Jordon, Dewith Carrier, Tim Kerner

This committee hears bills that include topics such as highways, roads, and bridges, railroads, air, bus, and pipelines. Additionally, the committee hears bills regarding the construction, improvement, and maintenance of waterways, lakes, and streams.

Chair: Ryan Bourriaque

Vice-Chair: Bryan Fontenot

Members: Steven Jackson, Tammy Phelps, Joy Walters, Pat Moore, C. Travis Johnson, Rodney Schamerhorn, Philip Tarver, Tehmi Chaisson, Chad Boyer, Kellee Hennessey Dickerson, Jeff Wiley, Jacob Braud

This committee hears bills that include topics such as taxes, raising revenue, bonding of revenue, and state revenues generally.

Chair: Julie Emerson

Vice-Chair: Ken Brass

Members: Dennis Bamburg, Wayne McMahen, Rashid Young, Michael Echols, Jeremy Lacombe, Les Farnum, Chance Henry, Brach Myers, Joe Orgeron, Beth Billings, Larry Selders, Roger Wilder, Mandie Landry, Marcus Bryant, Matthew Willard, Mike Bayham, Jay Galle