Louisiana Senate Bills

AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE: Requests the Department of Insurance to study issues related to insurance coverage of motor vehicle damage claims, including steering and disputes regarding the adjustment of vehicle damages.

WATER/WATERWAYS: Establishes the Upper Pontchartrain Basin Task Force, provides for an assessment of the basin, and requests a suspension of approving certain permits.

STUDENTS: Requests the Department of Education to study implementation and accountability implications of student nonenrollment determinations.

COMMENDATIONS: Commends Grambling State University upon the celebration of the one hundred twenty-fifth anniversary of its founding and recognizes its enduring contributions to higher education, leadership, and public service in the state of Louisiana and beyond.

ECONOMIC DEVELOP DEPT: Requests Louisiana Economic Development to study and report on the riverfront and adjacent neighborhoods and districts in Orleans Parish.

COLLEGES/UNIVERSITIES: Creates the Legislative Higher Education Funding and Formula Task Force.

SPECIAL DISTRICTS: Provides for the creation and alteration of hospital service districts in Terrebonne Parish and LaFourche Parish. (8/1/26)

HEALTH CARE: Provides relative to hospital service districts. (8/1/26)

BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: Provides relative to the Addictive Disorder Regulatory Authority. (2/3CA7s2.1(A)) (8/1/26) (EN INCREASE SG EX See Note)

CONGRESS: Memorializes Congress to act to lower the insurance rates based on fifty percent completion of the Comite Diversion Canal Project.

BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: Requests the Louisiana Department of Health and Louisiana commercial health insurance payors to increase reimbursement rates for behavioral health crisis centers operating under a crisis receiving center license.

ROADS/HIGHWAYS: Urges DOTD to evaluate all school zones on state highways.

AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES: To urge and request the American Sugarcane League, LSU AgCenter, and Southern University Agricultural Center, in collaboration with agricultural manufacturers, to continue work on furthering technology and research into equipment to reduce the dependency of burning sugarcane.

TECHNOLOGY: Creates the Task Force on Blockchain and Digital Innovation.

CONDOLENCES: Expresses sincere and heartfelt condolences for the death of Louis "Thomas" Nelson.

COMMENDATIONS: Commends and congratulates Ginger Gustavson for her contributions and years of leadership in education upon the occasion of her retirement as Head of School from First Baptist Church School in Shreveport.

MALPRACTICE: Creates the Louisiana Medical Malpractice Task Force

CHILDREN: Creates the Child Permanency Task Force.

LOCAL AGENCIES: Requests local governing authorities to consider adopting local ordinances to require unlicensed residential facilities for seniors or persons with disabilities to have generators or alternative electrical power sources.

MOTOR VEHICLES: Directs the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, office of motor vehicles to study options for regulating and reducing fees charged by licensed driver education and training schools operating in Louisiana.

CONGRESS: Memorializes Congress and the administration of United States President Donald Trump to pass the Major Richard Star Act.

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: Constitutional amendment to require the prosecutor's consent for a defendant to waive his right to a trial by jury. (2/3 - CA13s1(A))

EXPLOSIVES: Provides for the regulation of explosives. (8/1/26)

HEALTH DEPARTMENT: Creates the Empower Louisiana Food Purchase Program. (8/1/26) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: Provides relative to defendants who are victims of domestic abuse, human trafficking, or sexual assault. (8/1/26) (REF SEE FISC NOTE SG EX)

STUDENTS: Provides relative to individual graduation plans. (8/1/26) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

COURTS: Provides for the administration of courts in Orleans Parish and the number of court judges. (gov sig) (REF SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)

WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT: Provides relative to apprentices. (8/1/26)

CHILDREN: Establishes the Commission on Fatherhood Engagement. (8/1/26)

SCHOOLS: Creates the School Safety Drone Response Pilot Program to supplement school crisis management and response plans. (8/1/26) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)