Louisiana House Bills

PROPERTY: Requires the return of property or property rights acquired by the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority for the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion

BUILDING CODES: Requires gas detection devices in homes with gas appliances

FIRE PROTECT/FIRE MARSHAL: Provides relative to the sale of fireworks

TRAFFIC/VIOLATIONS: Provides relative to use of automated and electronic speed enforcement devices for the issuance of citations

PESTICIDES/HERBICIDES: Provides relative to the registration of pesticides

ENERGY: Enacts safety regulations for carbon dioxide transport and sequestration

ENERGY: Provides relative to the Carbon Dioxide Geologic Storage Trust Fund (OR INCREASE SD RV See Note)

STUDENTS: Requires the administration of trauma screenings to public school students (OR INCREASE LF EX See Note)

CURRICULA: Requires each public school to incorporate instruction on artificial intelligence into an existing course of study for each student in grades six through twelve (OR NO IMPACT See Note)

JUDGES: Provides relative to the judiciary commission's authority over the deliberative process of judges

JUDGES/JUSTICE OF PEACE: Increases the jurisdiction of justice of the peace courts for civil claims in parishes with a population of less than 26,000 persons

PSYCHOLOGISTS: Provides relative to psychologists

ENERGY/PIPELINES: Provides for hazardous material pipeline signage

PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS: Provides relative to physician assistants

INSURANCE DEPARTMENT: Requires the Department of Insurance to issue an annual market accountability report (OR +$119,160 SG EX See Note)

HEALTH: Provides for comprehensive regulation relative to gestational carrier agreements (OR INCREASE SD EX See Note)

HEALTH CARE/RECORDS: Provides for the communication of health information

HORTICULTURE: Provides relative to license renewal requirements for arborists and utility arborists

HOUSING: Creates the Dream Starter Act

ELECTIONS: Provides relative to voter registration (OR +$7,038,346 GF EX See Note)

CURRICULA: Provides for a hunting course for certain public school students

TOPS: Provides relative to TOPS-Tech

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Adds requirements for cooperative endeavor agreements between Louisiana Economic Development and nongovernmental entities

TAX/AD VALOREM-EXEMPTION: Provides relative to an optional exemption of business inventory from ad valorem taxes and a partial exemption for that property based on fair market value adjustments (OR SEE FISC NOTE SD EX)

FUNDS/FUNDING: Establishes the Transportation Backlog Fund to be used to fund certain transportation projects (OR -$20,000,000 GF RV See Note)

TAX/INCOME TAX: Establishes a calculation to be used for reducing the rate of the state tax levied on individuals (OR DECREASE GF RV See Note)

HEALTH CARE/PROVIDERS: Authorizes certain healthcare entities to refuse to provide healthcare services under certain circumstances

TAX/TOBACCO TAX: Provides relative to the intent and purpose of laws imposing tobacco taxes (OR NO IMPACT See Note)

WORKERS COMPENSATION: Provides relative to an employee's refusal to submit to a medical examination or cooperate with vocational rehabilitation and provides relative to expedited summary proceedings for certain disputes

HEALTH/LDH: Provides relative to public health reviews conducted and public health guidance issued by the surgeon general

NURSES: Provide relative to licensing by the Louisiana State Board of Nursing

CIVIL SERVICE/FIRE & POL: Provides relative to the reemployment of certain employees of the fire and police civil service

EDUCATION: Provides relative to learning pods in public school systems

VETERANS: Provides relative to the Post-Conviction Veterans Mentor Program (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to the custodial interrogation of children

CIVIL/INTERDICTION: Provides with respect to interdicted persons

MOTOR VEHICLES: Provides relative to the location of a used motor vehicle dealer

JUDGES/DISTRICT: Provides for the election of judges to the 19th Judicial District Court

PROPERTY/EXPROPRIATION: Provides relative to expropriated property near a military base

HEALTH: Creates the Louisiana Board of Naturopathic Medicine

CORRECTIONS/PRISONERS: Authorizes the city of Zachary to use certain inmates to cut grass in certain cemeteries

LOCAL GOVERNMENT: Urges and requests the city of Shreveport to create an interest-free loan program for active Transportation Security Administration agents at the Shreveport Regional Airport

BAIL: Provides for the factors in fixing the amount of bail and modifications of bail

MOTOR VEHICLES: Provides with respect to electronic titles and registration for motor vehicles (OR NO IMPACT See Note)

MTR VEHICLE/OFFICE: Provides relative to lapses in motor vehicle liability security (EG DECREASE SG RV See Note)

MTR VEHICLE/INSPECTION: Provides with respect to vehicle inspection stickers (OR +$139,994 SG RV See Note)

CORPORATIONS: Provides for the regulation of proxy advisors (EG INCREASE GF EX See Note)

INSURANCE: Provides relative to procedures for joining liability insurers and asserting coverage defenses

PROPERTY/EXPROPRIATION: Enacts the Louisiana Landowners Protection Act (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF RV)

INSURANCE: Provides relative to penalties calculated on the amount found to be due from the insurer to the insured

BANKS/BANKING: Provides relative to mobile check deposits

APPROPRIATIONS/JUDGMENT: Appropriates funding for the consent judgment against the state in the suit captioned Chamberlain et al. v. State of La. et al.

APPROPRIATIONS/JUDGMENT: Appropriates funds for payment of the judgment against the state in the suit captioned Dawn Marie DePedro et al. v. State of Louisiana et al.

LOTTERY: Provides relative to the sale and order of lottery tickets through lottery courier services (OR INCREASE GF EX See Note)

PUBLIC SFTY/CORRECTIONS: Provides for the issuance of certain documentation to inmates before their release from incarceration (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

CIVIL SERVICE/FIRE & POL: Provides relative to the fire and police civil service

PARDON/PAROLE: Provides relative to parole eligibility, consideration, and hearings for persons convicted by a non-unanimous jury

HIGHER EDUCATION: Provides requirements for public postsecondary education management boards relative to core curricula, hiring and employment, faculty deliberative bodies, and nonacademic disciplinary proceedings and prohibits institutions from expending certain funds under certain circumstances (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

INSURANCE/GROUP-STATE: Provides with respect to participation by certain retirees in insurance programs sponsored by the state's Office of Group Benefits

OFFICIAL JOURNALS: Provides for the Official Journal of the State