Bill filing is finished (and there were a lot) so unless there are substitute bills in the offing, what you see now is what you get.
THE GOOD: HB 1021 by Rep. Peter Egan would require repayment of TOPS awards if not completed in a timely fashion unless an associates degree is completed instead; HB 1033 by Rep. Tony Bacala updates what constitutes critical infrastructure; HB 1038 by Rep. Chad Boyer closes loopholes regrading deputy marshals; HB 1041 by Rep. Jay Galle’ would expand health freedom; HB 1121 by Rep. Lauren Ventrella would extend conscience freedoms for health care providers; HB 1137 by Rep. Raymond Crews would protect employees from arbitrary adverse employment actions; HB 1156 by Rep. Tony Bacala would implement safety measures for transport and storage of carbon dioxide; HB 1181 by Ventrella would update taxation powers of economic development districts; HB 1184 by Rep. Josh Carlson would prohibit public contracts for artificial intelligence products coming from foreign adversaries; HB 1217 by Rep. Mike Echols would increase pharmacy benefit manager transparency; SB 466 by Sen. Alan Seabaugh limits expropriation powers of foreign adversaries; SB 478 by Sen. Gerald Boudreaux would increase accountability reviewing of colleges; SB 479 by Sen. Jay Morris would increase accountability of public officials; SB 491 by Sen. Gregory Miller creates an option to reduce state official journal expenses; SB 493 by Sen. Mark Reese would make it easier and less expensive to obtain public records; SB 503 by Sen. Stewart Cathey would prevent children from accessing inappropriate apps.
THE BAD: HB 1022 by Rep. Steven Jackson would extend the use of school-based clinics; HB 1028 by Rep. Rodney Lyons would hamstring unnecessarily rate-setting discretion for Medicaid transportation services; HB 1065 by Rep. Wilford Carter goes too in allowing for parole consideration; HB 1073 by Rep. Terry Landry reduces the character-building necessary for convicts to earn outside employment after release; HB 1131 by Rep. Denise Marcelle would limit unnecessarily discretion for improving voting integrity; HB 1141 by Terry Landry would adduce state legitimacy to surrogate motherhood; HB 1148 by Rep. Sylvia Taylor would reduce needed oversight of judges; HB 1150 by Rep. Edmond Jordan would foist an unnecessary unfunded mandate onto schools; HB 1159 by Rep. Vincent Cox tries to carve out another speed camera exception; HB 1164 by Rep. Shaun Mena would foist an unfunded mandate on homeowners; HB 1194 by Terry Landry would use public dollars to subsidize the free market in grocery provision (similar bill: HB 1222); HB 1201 by Rep. John Illg would raise unnecessarily the pay of statewide officials; SB 433 by Boudreaux would add unnecessarily and costly weight loss coverage drugs to Medicaid coverage; SB 473 by Sen. Gary Crater would create an unneeded unfunded mandate for employers; SB 484 by Sen. Mark Abraham would bring too much chaos to certain higher education functions; SB 501 by Sen. Katrina Jackson-Andrews would foist an unnecessary unfunded mandate on colleges.
THIS WEEK FOR THE GOOD: HB 4 with major amendment passed committee; HB 7 was deferred involuntarily; HB 73 passed committee; HB 158 passed committee; HB 191 passed committee; HB 199 with minor amendment passed the House; HB 294 with minor amendment passed committee; HB 363 passed the House; HB 615 with minor amendment passed committee; SB 82 passed the Senate; SB 123 passed the Senate; SB 190 with minor amendment passed committee; SB 197 passed committee; SB 207 with minor amendment passed the Senate; SB 217 with minor amendment passed committee; SB 310 with minor amendment passed the Senate.
THIS WEEK FOR THE BAD: HB 244 with minor amendment passed committee; HB 270 was deferred involuntarily; HB 361 was deferred involuntarily; HB 648 with minor amendment passed committee; HB 661 with minor amendment passed the House.
SCORECARD:
Total number of bills, House: 1231;
total number of bills, Senate: 520.
Total number of good bills, House: 90; total number of good bills, Senate: 40.
Total number of bad bills,
House: 65; total number of bad bills, Senate: 18.
Total House good bills heard in
House committee: 22; total Senate good bills heard in Senate committee: 17.
Total House bad bills heard in
House committee: 11; total Senate bad bills heard in Senate committee: 4.
Total House good bills approved
by House committee: 18; total Senate good bills passed by Senate committee: 15.
Total House bad bills approved
by House committee: 3; total Senate bad bills passed by Senate committee: 2.
Total House good bills approved
by House: 5; total Senate good bills approved by Senate: 6.
Total House bad bills approved
by House: 1; total Senate bad bills approved by Senate: 1.
Total House good bills heard in
Senate committee: 0; total Senate good bills heard in House committee: 0.
Total House bad bills heard in
Senate committee: 0; total Senate bad bills heard in House committee: 0.
Total House good bills approved
by Senate committee: 0; total Senate good bills approved by House committee: 0.
Total House bad bills approved
by Senate committee: 0; total Senate bad bills approved by House committee: 0.
Total House good bills approved
by Senate: 0; total Senate good bills approved by House: 0.
Total House bad bills approved
by Senate: 0; total Senate bad bills approved by House: 0.
Total House good bills going to
governor: 0; total Senate good bills going to governor: 0.
Total House bad bills going to
governor: 0; total Senate bad bills going to governor: 0.
Total House good bills signed
by governor/filed with Secretary of State: 0; total Senate good bills signed by
governor/filed with Secretary of State: 0.
Total House bad bills signed by governor/filed with Secretary of State: 0; total Senate bad bills signed by governor/filed with Secretary of State: 0.
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