House Order of the Day
June 12, 2025
9:00 AM
House Chamber

Adjourned
 

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MORNING HOUR

1. Roll Call

2. Prayer

3. Pledge of Allegiance

4. Reading of Journal

5. Petitions, Memorials, and Communications

6. Introduction of Resolutions
 HR375CARRIERCOMMENDATIONS - Commends David Sickey on his election as chairman of the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana
 HR376WALTERSCOMMENDATIONS - Commends Pastor Joe R. Gant, Jr., for more than six decades of preaching the Gospel
 HR377WALTERSCOMMENDATIONS - Commemorates the fourth annual Gospel Music Living Legends Awards in Shreveport
 HR378WALTERSCONDOLENCES - Expresses the condolences of the House of Representatives on the death of Pastor Cleonies Odom, Sr.
 HR379TAYLORCOMMENDATIONS - Commends Revolt1811 Museum on the institution's contributions to public education, tourism, and chronicling African American history in Louisiana
 HR380WALTERSCONDOLENCES - Expresses the condolences of the House of Representatives on the death of Reverend NaJee Johnson
 HR383HILFERTYCOMMENDATIONS - Commends Clancy DuBos on the occasion of his retirement after five decades in journalism

7. Introduction of Bills

REGULAR ORDER OF THE DAY

1. House and Concurrent Resolutions Third Reading for Final Consideration

Scheduled for floor debate on 6/12/2025
 HR358BAYHAMTRANSPORTATION DEPT - Urges and requests the Department of Transportation and Development to provide information on the number of closures and repairs to the Judge Seeber Bridge over the past seven years
 HR368BAYHAMSEAFOOD - Commends President Donald Trump for the imported seafood tariffs and restrictions he put in place that have helped protect Louisiana's commercial seafood industry
 HR369MCFARLANDCONGRESS - Memorialize Congress to avoid reductions in Medicaid funding that would adversely affect Louisiana's hospitals and communities they serve
 HR374BRASSHEALTH - Creates the Youth Tobacco and Nicotine Cessation Task Force to study the effects and impacts of nicotine use by persons under twenty-one years of age
 HR381WALTERSWATER/DRINKING WATER - Creates the Clean Water Task Force to study the public water system in Shreveport
 HR382FREEMANBUILDING CODES - Requests the Louisiana State Licensing Board of Contractors and the Louisiana State Uniform Construction Code Council to study and report to the legislature information and recommendations regarding adoption of the fortified roof building standards into the building codes for the coastal zone

2. Senate Concurrent Resolutions Third Reading Final Consideration

Scheduled for floor debate on 6/12/2025
 SCR32MCMATHCONGRESS - Memorializes Congress to avoid cuts to the Medicaid program.
 SCR60MYERSINSURANCE DEPARTMENT - Requests the Department of Insurance to study and report on the effect of certain legislative actions upon the condition and competitiveness of Louisiana's insurance market.

4. House Bills Amended by Senate to be Concurred in by the House
 HB535MANDIE LANDRYLEGISLATIVE AUDITOR - Requires the Louisiana Legislative Auditor to evaluate state tax incentives (EN +$43,000 GF EX See Note)
 HB686CHARLES OWENLOBBYING - Provides for the disclosure of foreign adversaries (EN +$100,000 GF EX See Note)

7. Conference Committee Reports for Consideration

Scheduled for floor debate on 6/12/2025
 SB26BOUDREAUXPUBLIC HEALTH - Provides relative to diabetes information. (8/1/25) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
 SB37HENSGENSMOTOR VEHICLES - Provides for the Louisiana Motor Vehicle Commission. (8/1/25)
 SB42SELDERSHEALTH CARE - Provides relative to perinatal behavioral health treatment. (8/1/25) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)
 SB122ABRAHAMCONTRACTORS - Provides relative to the Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors. (8/1/25)
 SB136TALBOTINSURERS - Provides for rate transparency reports. (1/1/26)
 SB195HARRISSPECIAL DISTRICTS - Provides for the French Quarter Management District. (8/1/25)
 SB233EDMONDSTAX/TAXATION - Provides for changes to the School Readiness Tax Credit. (1/1/26) (EN DECREASE GF RV See Note)

NOTICE GIVEN SUBJECT TO CALL

4. House Bills Amended by Senate to be Concurred in by the House

Scheduled for concurrence on 6/12/2025
 HB1MCFARLANDAPPROPRIATIONS - Provides for the ordinary operating expenses of state government for Fiscal Year 2025-2026
 HB2EMERSONCAPITAL OUTLAY - Provides for the comprehensive Capital Outlay budget
 HB264ECHOLSINSURANCE/HEALTH - Provides for transparency and compensation practices relative to pharmacy benefit managers (EN +$90,000 SG EX See Note)
 HB460MCFARLANDAPPROPRIATIONS/SUPPLEML - Makes supplemental appropriations for Fiscal Year 2024-2025
 HB461MCFARLANDFUNDS/FUNDING - Provides for the transfer, deposit, and use of monies among state funds
 HB463MCFARLANDAPPROPRIATIONS/ANCILLARY - Provides for the ancillary expenses of state government
 HB647MCFARLANDAPPROPRIATIONS - Appropriates funds for the expenses of the judiciary for Fiscal Year 2025-2026
 HB664MCFARLANDLEGISLATIVE EXPENSES - Makes appropriations for the expenses of the legislature for Fiscal Year 2025-2026

RETURNED TO THE CALENDAR

Regular Order

1. House and House Concurrent Resolutions Third Reading for Final Consideration
 HR240CHARLES OWENENERGY - Creates a special task force for the House of Representatives to work with the Department of Energy and Natural Resources, the Department of Environmental Quality, and the Louisiana Board of Regents to assess the capacity of government, industry, and academia to model the behavior of geologically sequestered carbon dioxide and to develop a method, if necessary
 HR242CHARLES OWENHOMELAND SECURITY - Creates the Louisiana State Homeland Security Task Force
 HR303WALTERSTRANSPORTATION - Urges and requests the Department of Transportation and Development assume and reassign duties and responsibilities for the construction of the I-49 Inner-City Connector project
 HR344LARVADAINSUBSTANCE ABUSE - Creates a task force to study substance use trends and treatment among wards of the state

5. House Bills on Third Reading and Final Passage
 HB183BOURRIAQUETAX/AD VALOREM TAX - Provides for the inspection of assessment lists, challenges to the correctness of assessments, and reviews by boards of review and the La Tax Commission (EG NO IMPACT See Note)
 HB247CHENEVERTPROPERTY/EXPROPRIATION - Provides relative to the expropriation of blighted property in East Baton Rouge Parish and the city of Baton Rouge
 HB265MENAEMERGENCY MED TECH - Provides with respect to prohibitions regarding the employment of ambulance drivers convicted of certain offenses
 HB512PHELPSCRIME - Provides relative to criminal blighting of property
 HB576ROBBY CARTERINSURANCE/RATES - Provides relative to rates in competitive and noncompetitive markets
 HB601GEYMANNENERGY - Provides relative to carbon dioxide sequestration
 HB606TURNERTAX/SALES-USE, LOCAL-EXEM - Exempts prescription drugs and insulin from local sales and use taxes (EG DECREASE LF RV See Note)
 HB620PHELPSTRAFFIC - Establishes procedures to eliminate traffic congestion in neighborhoods surrounding certain schools in Shreveport, Louisiana
 HB632RISERENERGY - Protects mineral servitude ownership in relation to carbon dioxide sequestration
 HB637COATESENERGY - Establishes habitat conversion fees for large-scale solar development
 HB638COATESENERGY/SOLAR - Establishes agricultural conversion fees for large-scale solar development (EG SEE FISC NOTE SD RV)
 HB656JORDANTAX/SALES & USE - Repeals the reduction in the state sales and use tax rate and dedicates a portion of the avails of the state sales tax to fund teacher pay raises (EG -$276,800,000 GF RV See Note)
 HB696MACKENERGY - Provides relative to carbon dioxide sequestration (EG INCREASE SD EX See Note)

6. Senate Bills on Third Reading and Final Passage
 SB20WHEATLEGISLATIVE SESSIONS - Constitutional amendment to change the number of general bills a legislator may file during regular sessions that occur during odd-numbered years and for legislating with regard to dedication or rededication of funds. (2/3-CA13sl(A))
 SB168WOMACKPRESCRIPTION - Provides for liberative prescription on mineral leases on state property. (8/1/25)

INSTRUMENTS PENDING IN CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

Not yet scheduled for floor debate
 HCR69CARVERMOTOR VEHICLES - Creates a task force to study the merger of the Louisiana Motor Vehicle Commission and the Louisiana Used Motor Vehicle Commission
 HB77TURNERTOPS - Adds the Excellence award level for students who score 31 or higher on the ACT, allows award qualification based on the Classic Learning Test, revises eligibility requirements for TOPS-Tech, and allows application of unused award amounts to medical or dental school (EN +$3,012,092 SG EX See Note)
 HB138DEWITTPHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS - Provides with respect to the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners
 HB293MELERINELABOR - Provides relative to the resignation from labor organization dues or fees for teachers and other school employees and public employees (REF SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)
 HB365DESHOTELTAX/AD VALOREM TAX - Provides for an optional exemption of business inventory from ad valorem taxes and to authorize the reduction of the fair market value percentage of business inventory under certain circumstances (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
 HB366DESHOTELTAX/AD VALOREM TAX - (Constitutional Amendment) Authorizes parishes to exempt business inventory from ad valorem taxes and authorizes parishes to reduce the percentage of fair market value applicable to business inventory (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
 HB404WILLARDREVENUE DEPARTMENT - Provides relative to various tax administration functions of the Department of Revenue (EN DECREASE GF RV See Note)
 HB466CARLSONTEACHERS/SALARY - Requires school systems to provide a salary increase for teachers and other school employees using savings attributable to the state's payment of certain unfunded accrued liability of the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)
 HB473EMERSONFUNDS/FUNDING - (Constitutional Amendment) Provides relative to the application of state monies to the unfunded accrued liability of the Teachers' Retirement System of La. (EN DECREASE SD RV See Note)
 HB518GEYMANNTAX/SEVERANCE TAX - Provides relative to rates, computation, and administration of severance tax on oil, gas, and other natural resources (EN NO IMPACT GF RV See Note)
 HB559ECHOLSHEALTH/LDH - Provides relative to human services districts and boards (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
 HB570CARVERCOMMERCIAL REGULATIONS - Provides relative to minors use of applications (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV)
 HB578EMERSONTAX/SALES & USE - Provides with respect to state and local sales and use taxes and exemptions to those taxes (RRF DECREASE GF RV See Note)
 HB579EMERSONFUNDS/FUNDING - Provides for the transfer, deposit, and use of monies among state funds (EN -$9,000,000 GF RV See Note)
 HB649VENTRELLADISTRICTS/RECREATION - Provides relative to parks and recreation districts in East Baton Rouge Parish
 HB665WILLARDTAX CREDITS - Provides relative to the Angel Investor Tax Credit Program (EN -$1,000,000 GF RV See Note)
 HB690CHARLES OWENPUBLIC HEALTH - Directs the Surgeon General to draft and promulgate rules for the administration of medical activities under Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for all members of the healthcare community in Louisiana
 SB16MCMATHHEALTH/ACC INSURANCE - Provides relative to health stop-loss insurance. (8/1/25) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
 SB36HENSGENSMINERALS - Provides for carbon sequestration. (8/1/25) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
 SB55GREGORY MILLERTAX/AD VALOREM - Provides relative to the assessment, payment, and allocation of ad valorem taxes. (1/1/26) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF RV)
 SB73REESEENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL - Provides for sequestration of carbon dioxide. (8/1/25)
 SB113SEABAUGHLOCAL AGENCIES - Provides for term limits and qualifications for the DeSoto Parish Police Jury. (8/1/25)
 SB128GARY CARTERLAW ENFORCEMENT - Requires a written report when any law enforcement officer uses force on a member of the public. (8/1/25)
 SB162REESETAX/SALES - Provides relative to the collection and administration of sales and use taxes. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)
 SB165GREGORY MILLERJUVENILES - Provides for the governance of the Juvenile Justice District and adds Lafourche Parish to the Juvenile Justice District. (8/1/25)
 SB191EDMONDSLOCAL OFFICIALS - Provides for the composition of the board of commissioners of the St. George Fire Protection District. (8/1/25)
 SB220CATHEYLOCAL AGENCIES - Provides for the revision of statutes relating to local agencies. (8/1/25) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)