Louisiana Bills

CONGRESS: Provides for redistricting of Louisiana congressional districts. (See Act)

TAX EXEMPTIONS: Increases the individual income tax exemption for deposits into the START K12 Program accounts. (8/1/25) (OR DECREASE GF RV See Note)

WATER/WATERWAYS: Provides relative to the Louisiana Scenic Rivers Act. (8/1/25)

PRESCRIPTION: Provides for a legal holiday in the accrual of prescription. (8/1/25)

INSURERS: Provides relative to employee benefit plans preempted by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. (gov sig)

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)

HEALTH CARE: Provides relative to obstetric care. (gov sig) (OR INCREASE GF EX See Note)

TRANSPORTATION DEPT: Amends the Department of Transportation and Development administrative rules relative to outdoor advertising

RETIREMENT/STATE EMPS: Provides relative to retirement eligibility in the Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System (OR +$154,400,000 APV)

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION: Repeals the Capital Area Transit System Act

CRIMINAL/SENTENCING: Provides relative to sentencing for certain defendants (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

TAX/EXCISE: Levies an excise tax on cannabis and provides for the use of monies derived from the tax (OR INCREASE GF EX See Note)

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

HEALTH CARE: Provides with respect to informed consent for medical interventions (OR SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)

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

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)

MOTOR VEHICLES: Provides relative to the Louisiana Motor Vehicle Commission

LOCAL GOVERNMENT: Authorizes parish governing authorities to create commercial property assessed capital expenditure and resilience programs (OR SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)

STUDENT/ASSESSMENT: Requires students to attain a minimum ACT score set by the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education as a prerequisite to high school graduation and prohibits state-administered end-of-course assessments for high school students (OR -$4,300,000 GF EX See Note)

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

WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Establishes a red drum tag program (OR INCREASE SD RV See Note)

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

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

APPROPRIATIONS/JUDGMENT: Appropriates funds for payment of a consent judgment against the state in the suit entitled Randall Clint Lewis v. State of La. et al.

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

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.

INSURANCE/RATES: Prohibits the use of certain rating factors in insurance underwriting

POLICE/STATE: Provides for collection and reporting of data (OR +$4,575,500 GF EX See Note)

TAX/AD VALOREM TAX: Provides for the classification of certain marine vessels for purposes of ad valorem taxes (OR NO IMPACT LF RV See Note)

JUDGES: Provides relative to the Judicial Compensation Commission (OR INCREASE GF EX See Note)

HEALTH/MEDICAL TREATMENT: Provides relative to medical intervention (EG INCREASE SD RV See Note)

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

TAX/EXCISE: Levies a tax on the operation of carbon capture and storage pipelines (OR SEE FISC NOTE SG EX)

TAX/SALES-USE-EXEMPT: Establishes a sales tax holiday for purchases of certain items on the first Saturday of August each year (OR DECREASE SG RV See Note)

ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE PERMT: Provides with respect to the issuance of alcoholic beverage permits (OR SEE FISC NOTE SG RV)

DISTRICT ATTORNEYS: Provides relative to certain pretrial intervention or diversion programs

ENVIRONMENT/QUALITY: Authorizes liens for victims of CO2 pipeline disasters (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

REAPPORTIONMENT/JUDGES: Provides for the election of judges of the first district of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal (OR +$229,368 GF EX See Note)

TAX/SALES & USE: Exempts sales of goods through coin-operated vending machines from sales and use tax (OR DECREASE GF RV See Note)

RACING/HORSE: Provides relative to offtrack wagering facilities (OR INCREASE SD RV See Note)

PUBLIC PROPERTY: Relative to municipal, parish, and state governmental entities, provides for conditions pertaining to security for the issuance of permits for outdoor events and the release of certain surveillance video (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

CIVIL SERVICE/FIRE & POL: Provides relative to the classified police service in the city of Lafayette

ENERGY/CONSERVATION: Places a moratorium on carbon dioxide sequestration (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF RV)

UNEMPLOYMENT COMP: Provides for unemployment eligibility of certain school employees (OR INCREASE LF EX See Note)

INDIGENT DEFENSE: Provides relative to the office of the state public defender

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)

CIVIL/LAW: Provides relative to in vitro fertilization

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

HOSPITALS: Creates an exception to hospital credentialing requirements in certain circumstances

TAX CREDITS: Establishes a tax credit for costs of developing carbon sequestration wells where carbon sequestration is subsequently prohibited by local ordinance (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

TAX/SALES & USE: Provides for the sales and use tax exemption for certain public entities (OR DECREASE GF RV See Note)

TAX/INCOME TAX: Establishes rates and brackets for purpose of calculating the tax levied on individual income (OR +$197,700,000 GF RV See Note)

REAPPORTIONMENT/HOUSE: Provides relative to House districts

REAPPORTIONMENT/SENATE: Provides relative to Senate districts

TAX/INCOME TAX: Establishes an individual income tax deduction for net capital gains (OR DECREASE GF RV See Note)

TAX CREDITS: Provides for eligibility requirements for students participating in the student tuition organization tax credit program (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF RV)

PORTS/HARBORS/TERMINALS: Provides relative to the authority of the Caddo-Bossier Parishes Port Commission to use the payment in lieu of taxes program (OR NO IMPACT LF EX See Note)

CONSTITUTION/AMENDMENT: (Constitutional Amendment) Changes the process for amending the constitution

COMMERCE: Provides relative to regulations for short-term rentals

TAX/AD VALOREM-MFG/EXEMP: (Constitutional Amendment) Limits eligibility of solar facilities from participating in the ad valorem tax exemption program known commonly as ITEP (OR SEE FISC NOTE LF RV)