Louisiana Gov. Jindal Signs Important Bills

BATON ROUGE – Today, Governor Bobby Jindal announced that he has signed the following bills passed by the legislature into law. They range into a variety of issues from voting polls to education, health, the coast and more:

HB 120 - Wooton

This bill amends provisions of law regarding the temporary release of inmates.

HB 186 – Honey

This bill relates to unemployment compensation debt for certain employers.

HB 187 – Katz

This bill requires the reporting and electronic filing of student immunization compliance reports for postsecondary institutions.

HB 190 – Mills

This bill authorizes DHH to make final administrative orders and penalty assessments for violations of the state Sanitary Code executory in district court.

HB 191 – Kleckley

This bill relates to retroactive denial and recoupment of health insurance claims.

HB 220 – Arnold

This bill provides for changes to the licensing procedures by the Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors

HB 296 – Danahay

This bill relates to community center and playground districts in Calcasieu Parish

HB 335 – Willmott

This bill relates to child support guidelines.

HB 339 – Lopinto

This bill relates to the schedule of basic child support obligations.

HB 375 – Dove

This bill relates to the House Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.

HB 376 – Dove

This bill relates to the enforcement of groundwater management provisions.

HB 383 – LeBas

This bill relates to health insurance issuers paying local sales and use taxes on prescription drugs and pharmacist services under certain circumstances.

HB 444 – Templet

This bill relates to the adoption of children.

HB 447 – St. Germain

This bill relates to the surrendering of parental rights.

HB 494 – Hines

This bill relates to the schedule of basic child support obligations.

HB 502 – Arnold

This bill relates to the sale of auto hulk to a scrap metal processor.

HB 523 – Connick

This bill authorizes Jefferson Parish to take certain actions in court relative to certain owners of deleterious premises.

HB 539 – Lambert

This bill relates to the ozone nonattainment penalty fee.

HB 608 – T. Burns

This bill removes the minimum number of US Army Airborne license plate applicants (1,000) necessary for the Department of Public Safety to establish the plate.

HB 610 – White

This bill relates to electronic bidding at the local level.

HB 633 – Anders

This bill provides a limitation of liability for certain agritourism activities.

HB 638 – LaBruzzo

This bill relates to certain fuel efficiency standards for state vehicles.

HB 805 – H. Burns

This bill relates to the Department of Public Safety creating the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital prestige license plate.

HB 809 – Lopinto

This bill requires that an application of a motor vehicle registration and certificate of title include such applicant's full legal name.

HB 853 – Tucker

This bill relates to the enforcement of laws under the jurisdiction of the Board of Ethics.

HB 874 – Tucker

This bill relates to railroad crossings.

HB 877 – Mills

This bill provides for changes to the Louisiana Wholesale Drug Distributors Act

HB 918 – Henry

This bill relates to bids or proposals for public contracts by contractors participating in the development of the bid specifications or request for proposals.

HB 923 – Gallot

This bill relates to voting absentee by mail.

HB 926 – Fannin

This bill relates to the transfer of FY08 excess revenue.

HB 928 – Jones

This bill relates to the creation of the Louisiana Historic Cemetery Register.

HB 934 – Templet

This bill relates to the removal of dangerous structures by the governing authority of parishes and municipalities.

HB 958 – Foil

This bill requires health insurance coverage of the diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders in individuals under 21 years of age.

HB 987 – Gallot

This bill relates to evidence of disability presented by a voter in order for them to be entitled to assistance in voting.

HB 988 – Waddell

This bill relates to the district offices of members of the legislature.

HB 1011 – LaFonta

This bill relates to reports regarding satisfaction of order for the conviction of a felony.

HB 1071 – Ellington

This bill establishes a program relating to the forgiveness of student loans for physicians in rural areas.

HB 1135 – St. Germain

This bill provides for the Atchafalaya Basin Program.

HB 1141 – Leger

This bill relates to contracts with the Corps of Engineers for hurricane flood protection projects.

HB 1147 – Cromer

This bill relates to the termination date of the insurance fraud investigation unit within DPS&C; public safety services, and office of State Police.

HB 1174 – Fannin

This bill appropriates funds for expenses of the Louisiana Judiciary for Fiscal Year 2008-2009.

HB 1181 – Lorusso

This bill relates to certain members of the National Guard regarding their definition as a “public employee.”

HB 1220 – H. Burns

This bill relates to operating agreements of certain underground storage.

HB 1230 – Barras

This bill relates to the delivery of a notice of a health care privilege by facsimile transmission.

HB 1287 – Fannin

This bill is the Supplemental appropriations for Fiscal Year 2007-2008.

HB 1296 – Willmott

This bill prohibits persons from riding as passengers in truck beds while traveling on interstate highways with an exception for emergency situations.

HB 1355 – Ellington

This bill revises provisions relative to the Aquatic Chelonian Research and Promotion Board.

HB 1362 – Hutter

This bill requires certain motor vehicles to stop at railroad crossing as required by federal regulations.

SB 11 –Gautreaux

This bill revises the Louisiana Right to Farm Law.

SB 15 – Dupre

This bill authorizes the issuance of a "Gold Star" motor vehicle prestige license plate.

SB 33 – Cheek

This bill relates to requirements of health insurers for the Department of Health and Hospitals.

SB 43 – Mount

This bill relates to alternative remedies against health care providers.

SB 58 – Kostelka

This bill relates to the annual canvass of registered voters.

SB 63 – Kostelka

This bill prohibits the Registrar of Voters and the Department of State from disclosing registration data received from another state pursuant to cooperative agreement and geographical coding of addresses of registered voters.

SB 91 – Quinn

This bill provides for two additional judgeships in the Twenty-Second Judicial District Court with specified jurisdiction.

SB 107 – Morrish

This bill relates to certified court reporters for the Thirty-First Judicial District.

SB 115 – Martiny

This bill provides a procedure for qualifying as a candidate by nominating petition whenever qualifying is reopened for an office after the death of a candidate.

SB 117 – Amedee

This bill relates to the collection and deposit of bench warrant fees and probation fees in the Parish Court for the parish of Ascension.

SB 119 – Broome

This bill relates to the definition of “lifestyle modifications.”

SB 156 – Cravins

This bill relates to the St. Landry Parish Economic and Industrial Development District.

SB 196 – Hebert

This bill prohibits waste facilities in certain parishes from operating within 5,000 feet of an airport.

SB 198 - Thompson

This bill authorizes state participation in the Pest Control Compact.

SB 210 – Marionneaux

This bill provides that certain persons appointed to boards and commissions must be reconfirmed each legislative term.

SB 241 – Cravins

This bill relates to insurance coverage for rehabilitative physical therapy.

SB 243 – McPherson

This bill relates to the procedure for the closing or removal of private farm railroad crossings.

SB 253 – Michot

This bill relates to examinations of residential mortgage lenders.

SB 258 – N. Gautreaux

This bill relates to the Department of Social Services.

SB 260 - Jackson

This bill relates to acknowledgments of judgments and paternity.

SB 269 - McPherson

This bill reorganizes the Louisiana Health Works Commission.

SB 270 – McPherson

This bill authorizes the transfer of certain state property located in Rapides Parish.

SB 274 - Mount

This bill authorizes the Department of Public Safety and Corrections to use certification by certain professional organizations in determining the qualifications and competence of individuals and labs to administer tests on suspected impaired drivers.

SB 287 – Mount

This bill relates to the “Louisiana Health Care Consumers’ Right to Know Act.”

SB 301 – Chaisson

This bill relates to immunity for certain medical personnel during evacuation.

SB 330 – Chaisson

This bill relates to the limitation of liability for medical services during a declared state of emergency.

SB 337 – Michot

This bill relates to uncompensated care hospital payments.

SB 339 – Thompson

This bill relates to cemeteries in receivership for rehabilitation.

SB 351 – Gautreaux

This bill authorizes state agencies to purchase hybrid fuel or alternate fuel vehicles.

SB 359 – Gautreaux

This bill revises the definition of “net energy metering facility.”

SB 365 – Dupre

This bill relates to the Louisiana Environmental Education Act.

SB 367 – Dupre

This bill relates to the Louisiana Coastal Protection, Conservation, Restoration and Management program.

SB 383 – Hebert

This bill relates to the proximity of landfills to airports in certain parishes.

SB 384 – Hebert

This bill authorizes DEQ to require facilities to keep records showing potential emissions are below Act 918 thresholds and to define potential emissions.

SB 411 – McPherson

This bill creates the Coastal Land Stewardship Authority.

SB 418 - Murray

This bill authorizes physicians at certain facilities to render opinions for purposes of social security disability determinations.

SB 430 – Hebert

This bill provides relative to the “Right-to-Know” Act.

SB 448 – Shepherd

This bill authorizes the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board to require those whose contract with it to repair a water supply system or sewerage system to have a certified Class IV person on the job site.

SB 546 – Mount

This bill relates to training the direct service workers and medication attendants.

SB 566 – Crowe

This bill establishes the Louisiana Wetlands Conservation and Hurricane Protection Tourist Center in St. Bernard Parish.

SB 593 – Riser

This bill relates to the payment of health insurance premiums for certain district attorneys and by certain judicial districts.

SB 603 – Cheek

This bill deletes a provision requiring the suspension of a driver's license of a person convicted of violating any law or rule while operating a commercial vehicle without holding a commercial driver's license.

SB 627 – Thompson

This bill relates to the retail florist examination.

SB 638 - B. Gautreaux

This bill names the Louisiana Real Estate Commission Building in Baton Rouge in honor of J.C. Willie.

SB 652 - Michot

This bill relates to the definitions and general applications of medical malpractice.

SB 660 – Nevers

This bill creates the Child Poverty Prevention Council for Louisiana and the Child Poverty Prevention Fund.

SB 671 – Smith

This bill authorizes certain parish governing authorities to name a courthouse annex building as the M. Bolivar Bishop Courthouse Annex Building.

SB 699 – Quinn

This bill provides for voluntary acknowledgements to be signed by both parents and to designate vital records as the central repository for all paternity acknowledgements.

SB 726 – Jackson

This bill limits the utilization of the LSU Health Sciences Center at Shreveport Hospital revenues.

SB 743 – Cheek

This bill relates to each coroner annually reporting to the Consumer Product Safety Commission all deaths of people under 16 related to the operation of off-road vehicles.

SB 744 – Dupre

This bill requires charter boat fishing guide licensees to provide certain information to the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.

SB 749 – Cravins

This bill authorizes the Juvenile Justice Reform Act Implementation Commission to make recommendations concerning the Jetson Youth Center-East Baton Rouge Parish unit.

SB 765 – Michot

This bill provides relative to minimizing the impact of budget adjustments upon hospitals qualifying for Medicaid rate maximization.

SB 769 – Chaisson

This bill relates to the Code of Governmental Ethics.

SB 781 – Jackson

This bill relates to multi-disciplinary interaction in cases of child abuse or neglect.

SB 786 – Gray

This bill relates to the Louisiana Youth Enhanced Services Consortium.

SB 789 – Hebert

This bill relates to additional members from certain parishes serving on certain commissions.

SB 800 – McPherson

This bill relates to certain leases granted by a state department.

SB 810 – Mount

This bill provides for Alzheimer's training requirements for certain employees of adult residential care homes and long-term care facilities.

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