| HB 153 | LaFonta | Extends the termination date of the Louisiana Commission on HIV, AIDS and Hepatitis C. |
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08-15-10 G Effective |
| HB 244 | Kleckley | Provides relative to health insurance coverage of unmarried dependent children. |
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08-15-10 G Effective |
| HB 265 | Barrow | Requires health insurance coverage of annual screening for sexually transmitted diseases. |
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04-29-10 H Meeting set for 9:00 A.M. House Insurance |
| HB 272 | Carter | Provides for certain health insurance options related to the insured's lifestyle with respect to tobacco use and weight. |
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03-10-10 H Referred to House Committee on House Appropriations |
| HB 273 | LeBas | Provides relative to the payment of local sales and use tax on prescription drugs and pharmacist services. |
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03-10-10 H Referred to House Committee on House Ways and Means |
| HB 280 | Kleckley | Provides for continued health insurance coverage for an unmarried dependent student during a medically necessary leave of absence. |
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03-11-10 H Referred to House Committee on House Insurance |
| HB 504 | Willmott | Requires instruction on safe haven infant relinquishments for certain individuals and provides for safe haven training and public information requirements. |
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08-15-10 G Effective |
| HB 505 | Richmond | Increases monetary amount for wrongful convictions. |
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05-19-10 H Recommitted House Appropriations |
| HB 512 | Harrison | Provides that the only credit factor that may be used in determining insurance premiums is that relating to the payment of insurance premiums. |
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05-12-10 H Meeting set for 9:00 A.M. RM. 2 House Insurance |
| HB 568 | Abramson | Permits the application of reduced health insurance copayments for primary care services. |
| Bill History: |
04-28-10 H Committee hearing cancelled House Insurance |
| HB 596 | Morris | Provides for a copayment requirement in the Medicaid program for all nonemergency services provided by a hospital emergency room or emergency department. |
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04-28-10 H Meeting set for 9:00 A.M. RM. 5 House Health and Welfare |
| HB 607 | Roy | Provides for the mandatory reporting of abuse of adults by financial institutions and the release of financial records. |
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06-03-10 H Returned to the calendar - subject to call |
| HB 611 | LaBruzzo | Requires all recipients of cash assistance to be drug tested prior to receiving benefits. |
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04-08-10 H Recommitted House Appropriations |
| HB 615 | Katz | Provides for the re-creation of the Department of Social Services. |
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06-30-10 G Effective |
| HB 616 | Barrow | Allows DHH to create a pilot program to provide preterm labor management services for Medicaid-eligible women with high risk pregnancies. |
| Bill History: |
04-29-10 H Set on the House Orders |
| HB 617 | LaBruzzo | Requires at least fifty percent of recipients of cash assistance to be drug tested prior to receiving benefits. |
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06-07-10 S Meeting set for 9:30 A.M. RM A-B Senate Finance |
| HB 635 | Mills | Provides for the LaPOST program. Became HB 1485. |
| Bill History: |
05-19-10 H Set on the House Orders |
| HB 665 | Jones, R. | Requires the departments of health and hospitals, social services, and education to delegate certain hearing and adjudication functions to the division of administrative law. |
| Bill History: |
04-21-10 H Meeting set for 9:00 A.M. RM. 3 House and Governmental Affairs |
| HB 734 | Pearson | Provides for the not-for-profit organizations which may give donations to certain public employees affected by hurricanes, the time period during which contributions may be accepted and the deadline organizations must report such donations. |
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06-25-10 G Effective |
| HB 744 | Roy | Limits discontinuation or cancellation of health insurance coverage under certain circumstances. |
| Bill History: |
09-23-10 G Effective |
| HB 762 | Roy | Provides for a minimum mandatory sentence of one year for intentional acts of cruelty to the infirmed. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-10 G Effective |
| HB 848 | Richmond | Provides funding to the Executive Department, office of elderly affairs for the parish councils on aging and provides funding to the Department of Veterans Affairs for operating expenses. |
| Bill History: |
03-18-10 H Referred to House Committee on House Appropriations |
| HB 865 | Burford | Requires that the Department of Health and Hospitals continue disability waiver benefits for family of military on active duty who have temporarily relocated to another state due to military assignment. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-10 G Effective |
| HB 903 | Talbot | Provides for compliance with federal law for expanded coverage by the Louisiana Health Plan. |
| Bill History: |
04-28-10 H Meeting set for 9:00 A.M. RM. 2 House Insurance |
| HB 909 | Badon, Austin | Requires the Orleans Parish School Board to pay a specified portion of the health insurance premium costs for certain retired employees and for such person's family members and dependents. |
| Bill History: |
04-07-10 H Referred to House Committee on House Education |
| HB 959 | Hines | Imposes a moratorium on implementation of the resource allocation models administered by the Department of Health and Hospitals and provides for new implementation recommendations based on national best practices. |
| Bill History: |
04-28-10 H Meeting set for 9:00 A.M. RM. 5 House Health and Welfare |
| HB 987 | Smith, Gary | Prohibits laboratory or medical facilities from withholding certain test results from patients and requires patient identification prior to delivery of test results. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-10 G Effective |
| HB 1005 | Harrison | Provides for the establishment of a program to address the high rate of obesity in La. |
| Bill History: |
06-07-10 H Meeting set for 9:00 A.M. RM. 5 House Appropriations |
| HB 1094 | Roy | Provides relative to cancellation of health and accident coverage by insurers or health maintenance organizations. |
| Bill History: |
04-28-10 H Meeting set for 9:00 A.M. RM. 2 House Insurance |
| HB 1119 | LeBas | Creates the cancer drug donation program. |
| Bill History: |
04-19-10 H Withdrawn |
| HB 1140 | Barrow | Limits adjustments to appropriations for health care and higher education to eliminate a projected deficit. |
| Bill History: |
03-19-10 H Referred to House Committee on House Appropriations |
| HB 1152 | Williams | Requires the Dept. of Social Services to amend state plan for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to provide for food and beverage. |
| Bill History: |
04-20-10 H Meeting set for 9:00 A.M. RM. 5 House Health and Welfare |
| HB 1159 | Greene | Provides relative to fees paid for copying medical records. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-10 G Effective |
| HB 1185 | Nowlin | Creates the Home- and Community-Based Long-Term Care Act. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-10 G Effective |
| HB 1196 | Carter | Provides relative to prospective and retrospective review of mandated health insurance benefits. |
| Bill History: |
04-20-10 H Meeting set for 9:30 A.M. RM. 2 House Insurance |
| HB 1198 | Katz | Provides for the transfer of functions of Louisiana Rehabilitation Services from the Department of Social Services to the Louisiana Workforce Commission and the Department of Health and Hospitals. |
| Bill History: |
07-01-10 G Effective |
| HB 1206 | Edwards | Decreases disability threshold relative to the disabled veterans exemption for driver's license fees. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-10 G Effective |
| HB 1219 | Kleckley | Provides relative to the licensure, financial solvency, and regulation of prepaid entities participating in the Louisiana Medicaid Program. |
| Bill History: |
04-29-10 G Effective |
| HB 1226 | Smiley | Provides for the abolition of certain inactive boards and commissions. |
| Bill History: |
07-01-10 G Effective |
| HB 1233 | LaBruzzo | Provides the option for persons licensed or regulated by the state to be insured under a policy of group insurance. |
| Bill History: |
06-18-10 S Returned to the calendar - subject to call |
| HB 1247 | Hoffman | Prohibits coverage of elective abortions by health insurance issuers. |
| Bill History: |
07-02-10 G Effective |
| HB 1258 | Harrison | Provides with respect to applications for industrial facilities issued by DEQ. Became HB 1476. |
| Bill History: |
05-06-10 H Set on the House Orders |
| HB 1367 | Carter | Provides for certain health insurance options related to the insured's lifestyle with respect to tobacco use and weight. |
| Bill History: |
04-21-10 H Referred to House Committee on House Appropriations |
| HB 1432 | Barrow | Provides for use of the Medicaid Trust Fund for the Elderly for the development and funding of the Medicaid home and community-based services program. |
| Bill History: |
05-06-10 H Involuntarily Deferred House Health and Welfare |
| HB 1453 | Johnson | Excludes health care providers who perform elective abortions from coverage under the state and private Medical Malpractice Acts. |
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08-15-10 G Effective |
| HCR 94 | Richard | Suspends laws providing for the Direct Service Worker Registry implemented by the Department of Health and Hospitals. |
| Bill History: |
06-22-10 S Enrolled |
| SB 26 | Crowe | Enacts the Louisiana Health Care Freedom Act. |
| Bill History: |
03-29-10 S Recommitted Senate Finance |
| SB 69 | McPherson | Extends moratorium on additional beds for nursing facilities until July 1, 2016. |
| Bill History: |
05-24-10 H Failed to pass (Vote: Y: 44/N: 45) |
| SB 78 | Crowe | Constitutional Amendment to define the term "person" to include every human being from the beginning of the biological development of that human being. |
| Bill History: |
03-15-10 S Referred to Senate Committee on Senate Judiciary (B) |
| SB 91 | Long | Requires five percent of net win from electronic bingo machines be paid to the Louisiana Food Bank Association. |
| Bill History: |
04-27-10 S Meeting set for 9:30 A.M. RM. E Senate Judiciary (B) |
| SB 196 | Mount | Expands the definition of a child placing agency and exempts from licensure child-placing agencies owned and operated by the Department of Social Services. |
| Bill History: |
10-01-10 G Effective |
| SB 211 | Mount | Provides for the codification of the rules and regulations promulgated by the Department of Health and Hospitals. |
| Bill History: |
04-14-10 S Meeting set for 9:30 A.M. HAINKEL RM. Senate Health and Welfare |
| SB 216 | Mount | Provides for changes to the Nursing Home Patient's Bill of Rights. |
| Bill History: |
06-08-10 G Effective |
| SB 230 | Gautreaux, B. | Provides for increasing the termination age for children under health and accident policies to age 26. |
| Bill History: |
05-25-10 H Meeting set for 9:00 A.M. RM. 2 House Insurance |
| SB 239 | Broome | Expands the purpose for which results of HIV tests may be released to the Department of Health and Hospitals and makes technical corrections. |
| Bill History: |
06-08-10 G Effective |
| SB 253 | Dorsey | Requires the Department of Health and Hospitals to disseminate information related to the provision of health care services. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-10 G Effective |
| SB 257 | Mount | Reorganizes and renames the Department of Social Services. |
| Bill History: |
07-01-10 G Effective |
| SB 288 | Donahue | Directs each state executive agency to reduce the costs of its contracts by ten percent for FY11, except as approved by the commissioner of administration. |
| Bill History: |
03-18-10 S Referred to Senate Committee on Senate Finance |
| SB 334 | Marionneaux | Provides relative to the Louisiana Smokefree Air Act. |
| Bill History: |
05-24-10 S Returned to the calendar - subject to call |
| SB 358 | McPherson | Requires DHH to study and evaluate all possible models of care which seek to maximize the use of community hospitals for providing of acute and inpatient care currently being provided by the hospital system operated by LSU Health Sciences Center. |
| Bill History: |
03-18-10 S Referred to Senate Committee on Senate Health and Welfare |
| SB 360 | Broome | Extends the facility need review approval for licensed intermediate care facilities for people with developmental disabilities that are located in certain areas. |
| Bill History: |
06-03-10 H Meeting set for 9:00 A.M. RM. 5 House Health and Welfare |
| SB 404 | Donahue | Provides for the establishment of regional governmental service centers for the delivery of state services under a "mall concept." |
| Bill History: |
08-15-10 G Effective |
| SB 485 | Morrell | Provides relative to the provision of special education and related services in charter schools. |
| Bill History: |
03-19-10 S Referred to Senate Committee on Senate Education |
| SB 539 | Nevers | Requires the Department of Health and Hospitals secretary to license and enroll in the Medicaid program certain providers who operate intermediate care facilities for the developmentally disabled. |
| Bill History: |
05-04-10 S Recommitted Senate Finance |
| SB 543 | Morrish | Creates the Louisiana Mandated Health Benefits Commission and provides for its membership and functions. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-10 G Effective |
| SB 628 | Duplessis | Provides relative to student suspensions and expulsions. |
| Bill History: |
04-22-10 S Meeting set for At Adj., Hainkel Rm. Senate Education |
| SB 668 | Hebert | Provides for increasing the termination age for children under health and accident policies to age 26. |
| Bill History: |
03-19-10 S Referred to Senate Committee on Senate Insurance |
| SCR 23 | Gautreaux, N. | Memorializes Congress to remove financial eligibility requirements for patients stricken with ALS to be approved to receive Medicaid. |
| Bill History: |
05-26-10 H Enrolled |
| SCR 54 | Murray | Provides for federal funding for the Louisiana AIDS Drug Assistance Program. |
| Bill History: |
04-29-10 H Enrolled |
| SCR 64 | Crowe | Requests the Department of Insurance to study and make recommendations with respect to the health insurance crisis. |
| Bill History: |
05-05-10 H Enrolled |
| SCR 77 | McPherson | Directs DHH to investigate, study, and develop a plan or strategy to modernize and improve the state developmental disability centers, focusing on an assessment of the current operation and maintenance of the existing developmental disability centers. |
| Bill History: |
06-15-10 S Enrolled |