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Provides for the ordinary operating expenses of state government for Fiscal Year 2022-2023
Current Status: Reconsideration of Vetoed Bills
Requires passage of a reading instruction test as a condition of teacher certification in elementary education
Current Status: Assigned Act Number
Prohibits promotion to the fourth grade of certain students whose reading deficiencies have not been remedied by the end of the third grade
Current Status: House Bills 3rd Reading and Final Passage
Provides for mental health evaluations in divorce and child custody proceedings
Current Status: Assigned Act Number
Authorizes early learning centers to maintain a supply of auto-injectable epinephrine
Current Status: Assigned Act Number
Expands the purposes for which a parish governing authority may levy a tax relative to early childhood programs
Current Status: Assigned Act Number
Requires each governing authority of a public high school to adopt policies regarding attendance, breastfeeding, and child care for students who are pregnant or parenting
Current Status: Assigned Act Number
Provides for Medicaid coverage of prescription breast milk
Current Status: Assigned Act Number
Provides relative to insurance coverage for prescription breast milk
Current Status: Assigned Act Number
Provides relative to industrial hemp
Current Status: Assigned Act Number
Relative to licensure of production facilities for therapeutic marijuana
Current Status: Pending in House Committee on Health & Welfare
Provides for the licensure of therapeutic marijuana pharmacies
Current Status: Killed in the House
Provides relative to universal perinatal mood disorder screening for primary care doctors
Current Status: Assigned Act Number
Provides relative to adverse childhood experiences and trauma-informed education
Current Status: Assigned Act Number
Creates an early childhood literacy program for the purpose of delivering an age-appropriate book monthly to eligible children under the age of five
Current Status: Pending in House Committee on Appropriations
Suspends provisions of law authorizing the exclusion of unimmunized persons from in-person attendance at schools and day care centers under certain circumstances
Current Status: House Concurrent Resolutions on Third Reading and Final Passage
Requires public schools to offer prekindergarten instruction
Current Status: Assigned Act Number
Requires annual meetings of and reports from the Early Childhood Care and Education Commission
Current Status: Assigned Act Number
Provides relative to powers and duties of the Children's Cabinet
Current Status: Pending in Senate Committee on Health and Welfare
Provides relative to Family Independence Temporary Assistance Program (FITAP) participants
Current Status: Withdrawn from the files of the Senate
Provides reporting requirements for certain state agencies that administer certain federal and state social service or financial assistance programs
Current Status: Assigned Act Number
Eliminates the death penalty for offenses committed on or after August 1, 2022, and allocates savings generated to Early Childhood Education Fund literacy programs
Current Status: Pending in Senate Committee on Judiciary C
Provides relative to screening or testing required for entrance in a public prekindergarten program
Current Status: Pending in Senate Committee on Education