Louisiana Bills

INSURANCE: Requires insurers or business entities promoting term life insurance policies to provide certain notices to applicants

PUBLIC SERVICE COMN: (Constitutional Amendment) Provides for certain common carriers and public utilities to be regulated by the Public Service Commission (OR INCREASE SG RV See Note)

HEALTH/LDH: Provides relative to certain eligibility requirements for certain public assistance programs (OR INCREASE GF EX See Note)

VACCINES/VACCINATION: Provides relative to the requirement that certain students present evidence of immunization against meningococcal disease as a condition of school entry

INSURANCE: Provides for the transparency of setting insurance rates

HIGHWAYS: Prohibits leaving trash cans in the rights-of-way of state roads

WILDLIFE/ENFORCEMENT: Provides for rehabilitation of wildlife

GAMING: Provides for parish elections to permit gaming

RAILROADS: Requires local railroad companies to remediate or remove blighted or abandoned railroad lines and associated structures

WILDLIFE & FISHERIES CMN: (Constitutional Amendment) Provides relative to control and supervision of the wildlife of the state (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

ENERGY/OIL & GAS WELLS: Provides for the operation of commercial saltwater disposal wells (OR +$330,397 SD EX See Note)

ENVIRONMENT/WASTE TIRES: Increases the cap on fees collected for the Waste Tire Management Dedicated Fund Account and dedicates additional revenue for a tire buy back program (OR +$5,100,000 SG RV See Note)

TRANSPORTATION DEPT: Requires residential notice before road closure (OR INCREASE SD EX See Note)

INSURANCE/AUTOMOBILE: Requires uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage for transportation network company drivers

REAPPORTIONMENT/SENATE: Provides for the districts for the election of members of the Senate

REAPPORTIONMENT/HOUSE: Provides for the districts for the election of members of the House of Representatives

CRIME/THEFT: Provides relative to contractor fraud

REAPPORTIONMENT/SENATE: Provides for the districts for the election of members of the Senate

REAPPORTIONMENT/HOUSE: Provides for the districts for the election of members of the House of Representatives

ELECTION CODE: Provides relative to early voting

MOTOR VEHICLES: Requires a towing permit for consensual noncommercial towing (OR +$124,800 GF EX See Note)

ETHICS/BOARD: Provides relative to penalties for failure to timely or accurately file required reports (OR -$408,000 GF RV See Note)

HIGHWAYS: Creates Louisiana legislator district signs on highways and roads in the state (OR INCREASE SG EX See Note)

ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE PERMT: Provides relative to the location of a premises for the issuance and revocation of an alcohol permit

CRIME/MISDEMEANOR: Provides for the unlawful use of artificial intelligence in telephone calls (OR SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)

JUVENILES: Provides a diversion program for juveniles stopped or detained for misdemeanor offenses

CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides with respect to service of process

TOPS: Authorizes students who qualify for a TOPS award but graduate from an out-of-state college to apply unused award amounts to medical or dental school in Louisiana and requires repayment unless certain conditions are met (OR +$367,110 GF EX See Note)

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Provides for state involvement in negotiations for local or parish economic development projects

PROPERTY/ABANDONED: Authorizes the state fire marshal to require owners of abandoned or blighted structures to install and maintain security cameras on property

PROPERTY/EXPROPRIATION: Prohibits the ability of private companies to request or exercise expropriation for geologic storage of carbon dioxide

PROPERTY: Provides for the partition of property

FEES/LICENSES/PERMITS: Limits the amount of convenience fees charged for use of credit and debit cards for certain transactions

TAX/SALES & USE: Provides for centralized collection of local sales and use taxes by the Dept. of Revenue (OR +$10,674,073 SG EX See Note)

NURSING HOMES: Modifies licensing procedures for nursing facilities

TAX/TAX REBATES: Establishes the Instructor Share Rebate Program for an employer who allows employees to teach in the La. Community and Technical College System (OR DECREASE GF RV See Note)

TAX/TAX REBATES: Authorizes a rebate for inventory taxes paid (OR DECREASE SD RV See Note)

PUBLIC OFFLS/EMPS: Provides relative to mandatory training on the prevention of sexual harassment

ATHLETICS: Prohibits schools from being members of, or participating in competition sponsored by, an athletic association that does not provide for a gubernatorial appointee, a House member, and a Senate member to serve as voting members of its governing board or committee

ATHLETICS: Prohibits schools from being members of, or participating in competition sponsored by, any intrastate interscholastic extracurricular athletic association or organization that does not provide for certain student eligibility procedures

LOTTERY: Provides for the purchase of certain lottery tickets through the internet

REAPPORTIONMENT/CONGRESS: Provides for redistricting Louisiana congressional districts

REAPPORTIONMENT/HOUSE: Provides for the districts for the election of members of the House of Representatives

PROPERTY: Provides relative to the transfer of rights to a thing

BAIL: Provides relative to the placement of a defendant's name into the National Crime Information Center registry

PUBLIC MEETINGS: Provides relative to live-stream video and recording of the public meetings of entities created by law (OR INCREASE LF EX See Note)

TAX/SALES & USE: (Constitutional Amendment) Authorizes the legislature to provide by law for the collection of all sales and use taxes imposed by any taxing authority in the state (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF RV)

TREASURY DEPARTMENT: Authorizes the state treasurer to invest monies deposited into the Budget Stabilization Fund in certain metals and certain digital assets (OR INCREASE GF EX See Note)

INSURANCE: Provides relative to institutional advertising expenses

HEALTH/WOMEN'S: Provides relative to pregnancy-related service centers (OR +$643,678 GF EX See Note)

APPROPRIATIONS/JUDGMENT: Appropriates funds for payment of the judgment against the state in the suit entitled Dr. Mahtab A. Lodhi and Dr. Peter Yaukey v. Board of Supervisors of the University of La. and Peter Fos

JUDGMENTS: Appropriates funds for payment of the consent judgment against the state in the suit entitled Nepal et al. v. Tiger Pointe Owner, LLC et al.

TAX/SEVERANCE TAX: (Constitutional Amendment) Increases the maximum annual amount of severance tax revenues that may be remitted to parishes in which the associated severance occurs (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF RV)

MUNICIPAL: Provides relative to municipal water and wastewater systems

INSURANCE: Provides relative to public adjusters

CRIME: Provides relative to conduct that constitutes disturbing the peace (OR SEE FISC NOTE EX)

ENERGY/PIPELINES: Requires a five hundred foot setback for carbon dioxide pipelines

WEAPONS/FIREARMS: Creates the crime of allowing a minor child to access a readily dischargeable firearm (OR SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)

LABOR: Enacts the Discount Retailer Workforce Safety and Retention Act

SECURITIES: Provides relative to transfer on death securities