All Health Legislation - Louisiana
SB571
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Introduced in the Senate, rules suspended, read first and second time by title and referred to the committee on Health and Welfare. Bill Text Provides for changes to the Louisiana Wholesale Drug Distributors Act. (8/15/08) Comment on Bill SB540
Latest Action: 06/12/2008 - Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 37, nays 62. Failed to pass, motion to reconsider tabled. Bill Text Provides for the moratorium on the issuance of hospice licenses and provides for a process for application. (gov sig) SB535
Latest Action: 05/14/2008 - Reconsidered. Read by title and returned to the calendar subject to call as amended. Bill Text Requires insurance coverage of certain medically necessary treatments for alcoholism, drug abuse, and mental illness, effective upon the enactment of an income tax credit equal to the cost of premiums related to providing such coverage. (8/15/08) (EG SEE FISC NOTE GF RV See Note) SB464
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Introduced in the Senate, rules suspended, read first and second time by title and referred to the committee on Insurance. Bill Text Provides relative to health care arrangements provided to a health care consumer. (8/15/08) SB436
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Introduced in the Senate, rules suspended, read first and second time by title and referred to the committee on Health and Welfare. Bill Text Extends the moratorium on the issuance of licenses for hospices. (gov sig) SB380
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Introduced in the Senate, rules suspended, read first and second time by title and referred to the committee on Insurance. Bill Text Provides for the regulation of viatical settlements. (gov. sig.) HCR225
Latest Action: 06/26/2008 - Taken by the Clerk of the House and presented to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House. Bill Text Urges and requests the Department of Insurance to assess network adequacy issues by market for all health insurance plans operating in the state and other related matters HCR200
Latest Action: 06/26/2008 - Taken by the Clerk of the House and presented to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House. Bill Text Requests DHH and BESE jointly to study the feasibility and advisability of prohibiting public schools from serving foods containing trans fat to students HCR174
Latest Action: 06/26/2008 - Taken by the Clerk of the House and presented to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House. Bill Text Urges and requests the Dept. of Health and Hospitals to study issues related to prohibiting the possession of tobacco products by persons under the age of 21 and report its findings to the legislature HCR155
Latest Action: 06/26/2008 - Taken by the Clerk of the House and presented to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House. Bill Text Urges and requests the Department of Health and Hospitals to study the development and implementation of civil commitment procedures for the treatment of sexually violent predators and child sexual predators HCR131
Latest Action: 06/18/2008 - Taken by the Clerk of the House and presented to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House. Bill Text Urges and requests the Department of Insurance to conduct a study on statutorily mandated health insurance benefits HCR123
Latest Action: 05/15/2008 - Taken by the Clerk of the House and presented to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House. Bill Text Memorializes congress to enact federal legislation limiting increases in health insurance premiums, deductibles, copayments, and other charges of military retirees for their military health benefits HR190
Latest Action: 06/26/2008 - Taken by the Clerk of the House and presented to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House. Bill Text Urges and requests the Department of Health and Hospitals to develop and implement cost control mechanisms for the Long-Term Personal Care Services Program and the New Opportunities Waiver Latest Action: 06/23/2008 - Enrolled, signed by the Speaker of the House and taken by the Clerk of the House to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House. Bill Text Urges and requests the Office of Group Benefits to study the bariatric surgery demonstration program HB1366
Latest Action: 06/21/2008 - Effective date: Jan. 1, 2009. Bill Text Requires that pharmacy benefit managers be licensed and regulated by the commissioner of insurance as third-party administrators HB1341
Latest Action: 06/17/2008 - Effective date: August 15, 2008. Bill Text Provides with respect to direct care service workers (EN NO IMPACT See Note) HB1338
Latest Action: 04/23/2008 - Read by title, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. HB1326
Latest Action: 04/23/2008 - Read by title, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. HB1290
Latest Action: 07/06/2008 - Effective date: July 1, 2009. HB1273
Latest Action: 06/23/2008 - Conference Committee report received. Bill Text Directs the Department of Health and Hospitals to develop and implement cost control mechanisms for the Long-Term Personal Care Services program and the New Opportunities Waiver (RE See Note) HB1265
Latest Action: 04/23/2008 - Read by title, referred to the Committee on Insurance. Bill Text Provides for the reimbursement of certain physicians for diagnostic or consultative services provided via telemedicine (OR INCREASE GF EX See Note) HB1261
Latest Action: 05/13/2008 - Involuntarily deferred in committee. Bill Text Prohibits K-12 public schools from serving to students food containing trans fat HB1242
Latest Action: 04/23/2008 - Read by title, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. HB1062
Latest Action: 06/12/2008 - Effective date: July 1, 2008. Bill Text Extends the moratorium for methadone maintenance programs (EN NO IMPACT See Note) HB1041
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. HB1039
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. Bill Text Authorizes the secretary of the Department of Health and Hospitals to seek bad debt payments on behalf of certain Medicare providers from the Medicare system HB974
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. HB972
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. Bill Text Creates the Health Information Technology and Infrastructure Advisory Committee HB958
Latest Action: 07/01/2008 - Effective date: August 15, 2008. Bill Text Requires health insurance coverage of the diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders in individuals under 17 years of age (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note) HB954
Latest Action: 07/03/2008 - Effective date: July 3, 2008. HB950
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. HB930
Latest Action: 06/21/2008 - Effective date: June 21, 2008. Bill Text Provides relative to the governance, functions, and responsibilities of human services districts (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note) HB925
Latest Action: 06/17/2008 - Effective date: August 15, 2008. Bill Text Provides benefits for certain services performed by licensed marriage and family therapists (EN NO IMPACT SG EX See Note) HB896
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. Bill Text Prohibits the display of any pharmaceutical advertisements in a health care facility SR180
Latest Action: 06/23/2008 - SR180: Rules suspended; introduced in the Senate. Read by title, rules suspended, adopted. Bill Text Requests DHH to develop and implement cost control mechanisms for the Long-Term Personal Care Services program and the New Opportunities Waiver. HR190
Latest Action: 06/26/2008 - Taken by the Clerk of the House and presented to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House. Bill Text Urges and requests the Department of Health and Hospitals to develop and implement cost control mechanisms for the Long-Term Personal Care Services Program and the New Opportunities Waiver SR161
Latest Action: 06/20/2008 - Rules suspended; introduced in the Senate. Read by title, rules suspended, adopted. Bill Text Requests the Department of Health and Hospitals to study all aspects of Senate Bill No. 402 of the 2008 Regular Session relative to the allocation of uncompensated care payments. Latest Action: 06/23/2008 - Enrolled, signed by the Speaker of the House and taken by the Clerk of the House to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House. Bill Text Urges and requests the Office of Group Benefits to study the bariatric surgery demonstration program HCR225
Latest Action: 06/26/2008 - Taken by the Clerk of the House and presented to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House. Bill Text Urges and requests the Department of Insurance to assess network adequacy issues by market for all health insurance plans operating in the state and other related matters HCR200
Latest Action: 06/26/2008 - Taken by the Clerk of the House and presented to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House. Bill Text Requests DHH and BESE jointly to study the feasibility and advisability of prohibiting public schools from serving foods containing trans fat to students HCR174
Latest Action: 06/26/2008 - Taken by the Clerk of the House and presented to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House. Bill Text Urges and requests the Dept. of Health and Hospitals to study issues related to prohibiting the possession of tobacco products by persons under the age of 21 and report its findings to the legislature HCR155
Latest Action: 06/26/2008 - Taken by the Clerk of the House and presented to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House. Bill Text Urges and requests the Department of Health and Hospitals to study the development and implementation of civil commitment procedures for the treatment of sexually violent predators and child sexual predators HCR131
Latest Action: 06/18/2008 - Taken by the Clerk of the House and presented to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House. Bill Text Urges and requests the Department of Insurance to conduct a study on statutorily mandated health insurance benefits HCR123
Latest Action: 05/15/2008 - Taken by the Clerk of the House and presented to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House. Bill Text Memorializes congress to enact federal legislation limiting increases in health insurance premiums, deductibles, copayments, and other charges of military retirees for their military health benefits HB1366
Latest Action: 06/21/2008 - Effective date: Jan. 1, 2009. Bill Text Requires that pharmacy benefit managers be licensed and regulated by the commissioner of insurance as third-party administrators HB1341
Latest Action: 06/17/2008 - HB1341: Becomes Act No. 333 without the Governor's signature. Bill Text Provides with respect to direct care service workers (EN NO IMPACT See Note) HB1338
Latest Action: 04/23/2008 - Read by title, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. HB1326
Latest Action: 04/23/2008 - Read by title, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. HB1290
Latest Action: 07/06/2008 - Effective date: July 1, 2009. HB1273
Latest Action: 06/23/2008 - Conference Committee report received. Bill Text Directs the Department of Health and Hospitals to develop and implement cost control mechanisms for the Long-Term Personal Care Services program and the New Opportunities Waiver (RE See Note) HB1265
Latest Action: 04/23/2008 - Read by title, referred to the Committee on Insurance. Bill Text Provides for the reimbursement of certain physicians for diagnostic or consultative services provided via telemedicine (OR INCREASE GF EX See Note) HB1261
Latest Action: 05/13/2008 - Involuntarily deferred in committee. Bill Text Prohibits K-12 public schools from serving to students food containing trans fat HB1242
Latest Action: 04/23/2008 - Read by title, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. HB1062
Latest Action: 06/12/2008 - Effective date: July 1, 2008. Bill Text Extends the moratorium for methadone maintenance programs (EN NO IMPACT See Note) HB1041
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. HB1039
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. Bill Text Authorizes the secretary of the Department of Health and Hospitals to seek bad debt payments on behalf of certain Medicare providers from the Medicare system SR127
Latest Action: 06/19/2008 - Enrolled, signed by the President of the Senate and sent to the Secretary of State. Bill Text Requests the Dept of Health and Hospitals to work in conjunction with statewide medical organizations representing pediatric physicians to prepare and disseminate written materials, at appropriate literacy levels, containing information about proper care and support for pre-term infants. HCSR3
Latest Action: 06/20/2008 - Approved on 6/20/08. Bill Text Requests House and Senate committees on insurance to study mandating health insurance coverage of telemedicine SCR92
Latest Action: 06/23/2008 - Sent to the Secretary of State on 06/25. Bill Text Requests the Department of Health and Hospitals to investigate the high rates of cancer in Livonia. SR110
Latest Action: 06/16/2008 - Enrolled, signed by the President of the Senate and sent to the Secretary of State. Bill Text Requests the Dept. of Health & Hospitals to study and/or consider a provision of providing non-emergency transportation for new mothers to allow them to visit the hospital and bring their breast milk for their babies. HSR10
Latest Action: 06/17/2008 - Approved on 6/16/08. Bill Text Requests the House Insurance Committee to study mandating health insurance coverage of the human papillomavirus vaccine HR107
Latest Action: 06/17/2008 - Enrolled, signed by the Speaker of the House and taken by the Clerk of the House to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House. Bill Text Urges and requests the Department of Health and Hospitals and Department of Social Services to convene a study group to improve the substance abuse treatment rate among pregnant mothers under state supervision SCR73
Latest Action: 06/23/2008 - Sent to the Secretary of State on 06/25. Bill Text Requests the Department of Health and Hospitals, with assistance from the U. S. Food and Drug Administration and the Interstate Shellfish Sanitation Conference, to perform a cost-benefit analysis and economic impact study before promulgation of rules relating to the Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Vibrio vulnificus management plans. HR42
Latest Action: 05/06/2008 - Enrolled, signed by the Speaker of the House and taken by the Clerk of the House to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House. Bill Text Commends the citizens of House District No. 29 for striving to lose 2,900 pounds collectively and extends to them best wishes for success SCR40
Latest Action: 06/23/2008 - Sent to the Secretary of State on 06/25. Bill Text Urges DHH and the Louisiana State University system to study the use of electronic medical records for certain mental health patients. HCR96
Latest Action: 05/19/2008 - Read by title, withdrawn from the files of the House. Bill Text Directs DHH and the Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Criminal Justice to study the effects of substance abuse on recidivism rates HCR86
Latest Action: 05/06/2008 - Taken by the Clerk of the House and presented to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House. HCR80
Latest Action: 06/03/2008 - HCR80: Signed by the President of the Senate. Bill Text Authorizes the Acadiana Region Supports and Services Center to enter into a cooperative endeavor agreement HCR70
Latest Action: 06/03/2008 - HCR70: Signed by the President of the Senate. Bill Text Amends administrative rules relative to minimum standards for abuse and addiction treatment programs HCR67
Latest Action: 04/22/2008 - Read by title, withdrawn from the files of the House. Bill Text Declares the week of April 27, 2008, through May 3, 2008, to be Cover the Uninsured Week in Louisiana HR29
Latest Action: 04/28/2008 - Enrolled, signed by the Speaker of the House and taken by the Clerk of the House to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House. Bill Text Declares the week of April 27, 2008, through May 3, 2008, to be Cover the Uninsured Week in Louisiana HCR51
Latest Action: 04/17/2008 - Taken by the Clerk of the House and presented to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House. Bill Text Memorializes the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to enforce testing of all imported seafood for compliance with federal regulations SB571
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Introduced in the Senate, rules suspended, read first and second time by title and referred to the committee on Health and Welfare. Bill Text Provides for changes to the Louisiana Wholesale Drug Distributors Act. (8/15/08) SB540
Latest Action: 06/12/2008 - Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 37, nays 62. Failed to pass, motion to reconsider tabled. Bill Text Provides for the moratorium on the issuance of hospice licenses and provides for a process for application. (gov sig) SB535
Latest Action: 05/14/2008 - Reconsidered. Read by title and returned to the calendar subject to call as amended. Bill Text Requires insurance coverage of certain medically necessary treatments for alcoholism, drug abuse, and mental illness, effective upon the enactment of an income tax credit equal to the cost of premiums related to providing such coverage. (8/15/08) (EG SEE FISC NOTE GF RV See Note) SB464
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Introduced in the Senate, rules suspended, read first and second time by title and referred to the committee on Insurance. Bill Text Provides relative to health care arrangements provided to a health care consumer. (8/15/08) SB436
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Introduced in the Senate, rules suspended, read first and second time by title and referred to the committee on Health and Welfare. Bill Text Extends the moratorium on the issuance of licenses for hospices. (gov sig) SB380
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Introduced in the Senate, rules suspended, read first and second time by title and referred to the committee on Insurance. Bill Text Provides for the regulation of viatical settlements. (gov. sig.) SB354
Latest Action: 05/14/2008 - Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. Bill Text Requires health insurers to provide coverage for fertility treatments. (8/15/08) (EG NO IMPACT GF EX See Note) HB974
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. HB972
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. Bill Text Creates the Health Information Technology and Infrastructure Advisory Committee HB958
Latest Action: 07/01/2008 - Effective date: August 15, 2008. Bill Text Requires health insurance coverage of the diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders in individuals under 17 years of age (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note) HB954
Latest Action: 07/03/2008 - Effective date: July 3, 2008. HB950
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. HB930
Latest Action: 06/21/2008 - Effective date: June 21, 2008. Bill Text Provides relative to the governance, functions, and responsibilities of human services districts (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note) HB925
Latest Action: 06/17/2008 - Effective date: August 15, 2008. Bill Text Provides benefits for certain services performed by licensed marriage and family therapists (EN NO IMPACT SG EX See Note) HB896
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. Bill Text Prohibits the display of any pharmaceutical advertisements in a health care facility HB875
Latest Action: 05/29/2008 - Becomes HB No. 1385. Bill Text Provides for a common reimbursement methodology for community mental health centers and community mental health clinics (OR GF EX See Note) HB861
Latest Action: 06/12/2008 - Effective date: August 15, 2008. Bill Text Establishes the Umbilical Cord Blood Banking Program within the Department of Health and Hospitals (EN +$128,925 GF EX See Note) HB838
Latest Action: 05/15/2008 - Becomes HB No. 1379. Bill Text Requires a review of health care services rendered during an emergency prior to criminal prosecution SB332
Latest Action: 07/06/2008 - Effective date 7/6/08. Bill Text Provides for health care information and records. (gov sig) (OR NO IMPACT See Note) SB300
Latest Action: 05/07/2008 - Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. Bill Text Provides relative to the Louisiana Health Plan. (8/15/08) (EG SEE FISC NOTE GF EX) SB250
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Introduced in the Senate, rules suspended, read first and second time by title and referred to the committee on Health and Welfare. Bill Text Provides for the Department of Health and Hospitals to develop a prescription drug discount program for the low-income uninsured. (gov sig) SB247
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Introduced in the Senate, rules suspended, read first and second time by title and referred to the committee on Insurance. Bill Text Provides for the regulation of viatical settlements. (gov sig) SB241
Latest Action: 06/30/2008 - Effective date 6/30/08. Bill Text Provides relative to insurance coverage for rehabilitative physical therapy. (gov sig) HB562
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Read by title, under |
