Healthcare Bills: Current Status (4/26/19) Bill # Title Primary Sponsors Status Bill URL "MEDICAID: Establishes the TEFRA option within the La. Medicaid program to serve children with disabilities (OR +$454,271 GF HB 199 EX See Note)" Dodie Horton Introduced https://app.fiscalnote.com/#/share/bill?url=f531d4193a094ed4b5f1c1691b924051 "HEALTH CARE: Provides relative to the SB 169 statewide immunization registry. (gov sig)" Regina Barrow Introduced https://app.fiscalnote.com/#/share/bill?url=3903c5e899360f505f24541ef1f5fe1e "HEALTH/BEHAVIORAL: Exempts certain school-based behavioral health service providers from the Behavioral Health Services HB 336 Provider Licensing Law" Rodney Lyons Introduced https://app.fiscalnote.com/#/share/bill?url=5c700426d606cd0abccc9726dbaa2e7e "HEALTH/CHILDREN: Provides relative to the assignment of rights to the Department of Children and Family Services of individuals https://app.fiscalnote.com/#/share/bill?url=3405a61277ba406c5143ad3eea82e2b HB 537 whose children are in foster care" Mike Johnson Introduced 1 "PHARMACEUTICALS: Provides relative to regulation of pharmacy benefit managers. SB 41 (gov sig) (2/3 - CA7s2.1(A))" T-Fred Mills Introduced https://app.fiscalnote.com/#/share/bill?url=78ec4e779890a2a6f48fdd8c1463c7cb "HEALTH/ANATOMICAL GIFTS: Provides for rights of qualified organ transplant candidates HB 143 who have a disability" Malinda White Introduced https://app.fiscalnote.com/#/share/bill?url=8d2647a5c9e7795b59c8ac38f8cbb13e "HEALTH CARE/FACILITIES: Provides relative to the licensing of free standing birth HB 536 centers (OR +$1,800 SG RV See Note)" Stephanie Hilferty Introduced https://app.fiscalnote.com/#/share/bill?url=7d0e927fb550ce23be539ccb82b7c3e4 "MEDICAID: Provides for hospital payment HB 374 reform in the Medicaid program" Polly Thomas Introduced ("Involuntarily deferred https://app.fiscalnote.com/#/share/bill?url=aa4252d8168a99b46c0f7a86f92cc689 "PHYSICAL THERAPISTS: Provides relative https://app.fiscalnote.com/#/share/bill?url=88103b1966da547898ce3969a19ea79 HB 368 to the Louisiana Physical Therapy Board" Stuart Moss Introduced a "MEDICAID: Provides relative to denials of provider claims and prior authorization requests by Medicaid managed care HB 424 organizations (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)" Joe Stagni Introduced https://app.fiscalnote.com/#/share/bill?url=f3759a757fd3024d9feccf326e997a7c "HEALTH CARE: Provides relative to criminal background checks for certified nurse aide trainees. (8/1/19) (EG INCREASE GF EX See SB 32 Note)" Jim Fannin Passed first chamber https://app.fiscalnote.com/#/share/bill?url=991aabc348c7914aaa9aef4a5e46fb66 "HEALTH CARE: Provides relative to emergency departments. (8/1/19) (EG NO SB 36 IMPACT See Note)" T-Fred Mills Passed first chamber https://app.fiscalnote.com/#/share/bill?url=a5037bd9b34fb3a999bb5a3a83bb0685 "HEALTH DEPARTMENT: Requests the La. Department of Health to add Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) to the state's newborn https://app.fiscalnote.com/#/share/bill?url=5a1142595b55443ceb2c23a2818a6b2 SCR 16 screening panel." Sharon Hewitt Introduced 4 "HEALTH DEPARTMENT: Provides relative to criminal history record information obtained by the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners. (8/1/19) (EG SEE FISC NOTE SD SB 19 EX See Note)" Gerald Boudreaux Passed first chamber https://app.fiscalnote.com/#/share/bill?url=995bf59524b4463a9999affc38653eca "PHARMACEUTICALS: Provides relative to prescription monitoring information. (8/1/19) SB 53 (EG NO IMPACT See Note)" Ronnie Johns Passed first chamber https://app.fiscalnote.com/#/share/bill?url=908e96485570498addfa8f19c08ee651 "MEDICAID: Provides relative to Medicaid SB 48 pharmacy services. (8/1/19)" T-Fred Mills Introduced https://app.fiscalnote.com/#/share/bill?url=5a02e339214787c3851e6e7150f86136 "HEALTH SERVICES: Provides relative to SB 210 emergency medical services. (8/1/19)" Gerald Boudreaux Introduced https://app.fiscalnote.com/#/share/bill?url=cddea7c246ee78a3d506f2f5f3989d47 "HEALTH SERVICES: Requires the provision of certain information to patients or parents of patients prior to administration of an HB 207 immunization or a vaccine" Beryl Amedee Introduced https://app.fiscalnote.com/#/share/bill?url=be0a5445e9f652d58dad61e27487ab3f "CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES: Provides relative to certain substances in the Uniform HB 138 Controlled Dangerous Substances Law" Patrick Connick Introduced https://app.fiscalnote.com/#/share/bill?url=6ac4e7b47b7bf607cfbf98a85334a0c2 "DRUGS/CONTROLLED: Provides relative to penalties for possession of marijuana (OR HB 59 SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)" Denise Marcelle Introduced https://app.fiscalnote.com/#/share/bill?url=7fffdcf9d42cde52676b06048dfb511b "HEALTH CARE: Provides for the Healthcare Coverage for Louisiana Families Protection SB 173 Act. (gov sig) (OR NO IMPACT See Note)" T-Fred Mills Introduced https://app.fiscalnote.com/#/share/bill?url=fa3acb4ac92628f64e4fe6bfedb21b29 "MEDICAID: Prohibits Medicaid managed care organizations from denying opportunities to behavioral health services providers for HB 409 enrollment in provider networks" A.B. Franklin Introduced https://app.fiscalnote.com/#/share/bill?url=ed7d801f33c3feb0b41a04b23e898262 "PHARMACISTS: Authorizes a pharmacist to decline to dispense a covered prescription drug if the coverage provider reimburses the pharmacy in an amount less than the drug's HB 433 acquisition cost" Bernard LeBas Introduced https://app.fiscalnote.com/#/share/bill?url=66528161d1ca98fcf6a5587dec6a11e8 "HEALTH SERVICES: Creates the "Palliative Care Interdisciplinary Advisory Council". SB 119 (8/1/19)" Yvonne Colomb Introduced https://app.fiscalnote.com/#/share/bill?url=dd34741ba9a519c16bfee8a8fbfc2c10 "INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides for the regulation of pharmacy services administrative organizations (OR +$88,000 SG EX See HB 432 Note)" Edmond Jordan Introduced https://app.fiscalnote.com/#/share/bill?url=95f2fb0faef90736b84802a9f99142c7 "PHYSICIANS: Provides relative to prohibited SB 177 restraint of certain professions. (8/1/19)" Bodi White Introduced https://app.fiscalnote.com/#/share/bill?url=a4676d0c0912d41669dc2cf58fe5328a "HIGHER EDUCATION: Provides for anonymous sexual assault climate surveys at HB 294 public postsecondary educational institutions" Barbara Carpenter Introduced https://app.fiscalnote.com/#/share/bill?url=6c5d311bdc659f950c2839ca14b9fdca "HEALTH/BEHAVIORAL: Provides for access to applied behavior analysis providers in HB 320 schools" Scott Simon Introduced https://app.fiscalnote.com/#/share/bill?url=eaf2fa3bfc8040b9550a58de314582a8 "CONTROL DANGER SUBSTANCE: Provides relative to programs and professional SB 160 training to fight the opioid crisis. (8/1/19)" Gerald Boudreaux Introduced https://app.fiscalnote.com/#/share/bill?url=f103b83b3d6022989d92d594acb8e244 "HOSPITALS: Provides for a hospital HCR 5 stabilization formula" Taylor Barras Introduced https://app.fiscalnote.com/#/share/bill?url=1797f73ecc0cb92a23ba31e37b6c5593 "DRUGS/CONTROLLED: Provides that the regulation of therapeutic cannabis be placed under the authority of the Louisiana HB 568 Department of Health" Dustin Miller Introduced https://app.fiscalnote.com/#/share/bill?url=cb5aa97ec0b5b4be6adb43ccafe56bfa "MEDICAID: Provides relative to definitions, policies, and procedures of Medicaid HB 434 managed care organizations" Tanner Magee Introduced https://app.fiscalnote.com/#/share/bill?url=b362dc79757f0baec4f8092182507183 "PHARMACEUTICALS: Provides for the repeal of Medicaid prepaid coordinated care network pharmaceutical and therapeutics SB 7 committees. (gov sig)" Bob Hensgens Introduced https://app.fiscalnote.com/#/share/bill?url=784b754c9137ca1af87bc8a6d015eb88 "HEALTH SERVICES: Provides relative to SB 166 physician assistants. (8/1/19)" Eric LaFleur Introduced https://app.fiscalnote.com/#/share/bill?url=7eff6e3ce6844ac0fde5604ae2abe7aa "DRUGS/CONTROLLED: (Constitutional Amendment) Authorizes local governing authorities to call an election for the purpose of allowing the sale, possession, distribution, and use of marijuana (OR SEE FISC NOTE HB 462 LF EX)" Cedric Glover Introduced https://app.fiscalnote.com/#/share/bill?url=de22f8b702922bcb867c1fcf0226c52e "HEALTH/BEHAVIORAL: Prohibits the imposition of prior authorization requirements in Medicaid managed care for certain prescription medications used in treating opioid use disorder (OR DECREASE SG RV HB 526 See Note)" Frank Hoffmann Introduced https://app.fiscalnote.com/#/share/bill?url=1c58ea768a321fef7c66a33251278c08.