Louisiana Bills

PUBLIC ASSISTANCE: Provides relative to the membership of the Louisiana Women's Policy and Research Commission

HEALTH CARE/RECORDS: Provides for the exemption of fees for health records when requested for the federal and state veterans affairs departments

HIGHWAYS: Modifies regulations pertaining to personal delivery devices

PUBLIC PROPERTY: Establishes a priority status for the acquisition of surplus state vehicles for youths in the extended foster care program (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides relative to long-term care pharmacy

LAW ENFORCE/OFFICERS: Provides relative to the ability of peace officers to take a person into protective custody

COURTS: Requires the governing authority of St. Tammany Parish to transfer certain monies into the criminal court fund of the 22nd Judicial District Court (EN NO IMPACT LF See Note)

AGRICULTURE/MEAT: Provides relative to cell cultured food products

HIGHWAYS: Authorizes utility terrain vehicles to travel on the shoulder of certain roadways in Golden Meadow

UTILITIES: Provides with respect to reimbursement for utility overcharges

RETIREMENT/ASSESSORS: Provides relative to cost-of-living adjustments for the Louisiana Assessors' Retirement Fund (EN INCREASE APV)

TAX/TAX REBATES: Authorizes rebates of ad valorem taxes in West Feliciana Parish under certain conditions

EDUCATION: Provides relative to the Louisiana Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Advisory Council (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)

CONTRACTS: Provides relative to the duty of care for online platforms that contract with minors

FUNDS/FUNDING: Increases the maximum balance of the Hazardous Waste Site Cleanup Fund (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

ATHLETICS: Requires the state Dept. of Education to conduct a study and issue a report relative to interscholastic high school athletics

HEALTH: Provides relative to the practice of acupuncture

EVIDENCE: Provides relative to the admissibility of autopsy photographs in criminal proceedings

SCHOOLS: Provides relative to requirements for posting suicide hotline information on school websites and student ID cards

INSURANCE/GROUP-STATE: Provides relative to the authority of the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

COLLEGES/COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL: Authorizes any institution under the supervision and management of the Bd. of Supervisors of Community and Technical Colleges to establish a pilot program with a school system to increase awareness of and access to certain training programs (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX)

CIVIL SERVICE/FIRE & POL: Provides relative to the pay range for the state examiner and deputy state examiner of the municipal fire and police civil service

STUDENTS: Authorizes students enrolled in virtual schools to participate in public school activities

DISTRICTS/CRIME PREVENT: Creates the Regency Park Townhomes Crime Prevention and Security District in Orleans Parish

BRIDGES/FERRIES: Redesignates the Magnolia Bridge as the "Caleb Easterling Memorial Bridge"

CORRECTIONS: Provides relative to the reentry preparation program (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

RAILROADS: Provides with respect to the Rail Infrastructure Improvement Program (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

PUBLIC RECORDS: Provides relative to access to personal information of protected individuals (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)

CRIMINAL/PENALTIES: Provides relative to the desecration of graves and religious institutions (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF RV)

BOARDS/COMMISSIONS: Provides relative to the Louisiana Commission on Civic Education

CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides for the reassignment of a defendant's case when the right to a jury trial has been waived

SUNSET LAW: Re-creates the Department of the Treasury and the statutory entities made a part of the department by law (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

HEALTH CARE/RECORDS: Provides for the use of certain medical terminology in medical documentation (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

SCHOOLS: Provides relative to incidents of assault and battery on students and school employees (EN INCREASE LF EX See Note)

PAROLE: Provides for consolidation of certain repetitive language relative to parole eligibility

CRIME: Provides relative to conduct that constitutes the crime of video voyeurism

UTILITIES: Provides relative to the repair of damaged infrastructure from certain excavators or demolishers (RE1 NO IMPACT See Note)

CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides with respect to criminal resentencing

HEALTH: Provides relative to the Children's Cabinet Advisory Board

PAROLE: Provides relative to medical parole (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

JURY DUTY: Provides relative to jury duty mileage reimbursement (EN INCREASE LF EX See Note)

COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS: Provides relative to reporting child exploitation on covered platforms (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

TAX/AD VALOREM-EXEMPTION: Authorizes an optional property tax exemption for blighted or derelict properties that have been rehabilitated and provides with respect to local redevelopment plans (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF RV See Note)

CIVIL SERVICE/UNCLASSIFD: Provides relative to job advertisement requirements and notice to applicants

COLLEGES/UNIVERSITIES: Prohibits, with exceptions, a public postsecondary education institution from prohibiting a student from possessing self-defense chemical spray on campus

HEALTH/SICKLE CELL ANEM: Provides for the membership of the Sickle Cell Commission

COURTS/COURT REPORTERS: Excludes court reporters from the two-year waiting period for rehiring relative to termination of public service (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

CRIMINAL/SENTENCING: Provides relative to extradition as a condition of probation or parole (EN INCREASE SG RV See Note)

SHERIFFS: Provides relative to the per diem rate paid by the Dept. of Public Safety and Corrections for the housing of state inmates in a parish jail or institution (EN +$17,311,950 GF EX See Note)

PUBLIC CONTRACT/BIDS: Provides relative to a contract limit for hospital service districts (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Provides relative to grocery initiative grants and financial support (RR INCREASE GF EX See Note)

CHILDREN/CUSTODY: Provides relative to child custody

TRANSPORTATION DEPT: Provides for funding to certain entities for infrastructure related projects within the Department of Transportation and Development (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX)

POLICE/MUNICIPAL: Provides for the abolition of the office of police chief and the police department in the village of Edgefield

EARLY CHILDHOOD: Provides relative to the Advisory Council on Early Childhood Care and Education and the Early Childhood Care and Education Commission

EMPLOYMENT/DISCRIMINATN: Prohibits intentional discrimination based on compelled speech with respect to using certain pronouns, names, or honorifics

CRIME: Prohibits relative to the manufacturing and sale of motor vehicle key programming or emulation devices (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)

CRIMINAL/JURY TRIALS: Provides relative to juror qualifications

PUBLIC CONTRACT/BIDS: Provides relative to contracts for garbage collection in parishes and municipalities

EVIDENCE: Provides relative to self-authentication of certain evidence