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2024 Louisiana Legislation Watch-Climate, Women's issues
UPDATES TEMPORARILY PAUSED, AS OF 4 15 24, DUE to despair!!!!
Compiled by Penny, but culled from many sites, including:
Sierra Club Bill Watch: https://www.quorum.us/spreadsheet/external/oKaVnxIotoGEImzZpoAH/ and
10,000 Women Bill Watch: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1He_72ytxbiMHGAn-mn9zb8t0Gf-X6ylnjg1els8w_FY/edit#gid=165955152
LAFS https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17LSzQRF_0NQxW1_XcNUlFYgg_H8UWN5_3zLIE6OHdCQ/edit?pli=1#gid=1457363055
Legislative Archives: https://house.louisiana.gov/H_Video/2024/Jan2024 https://senate.la.gov/Video_Archive
Watch Live:https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/video.aspx?roomid=101
NOTE: Arranged from top to bottom according to time order they are being presented in the legislature. OR IMPORTANCE. otherwise by number, House first.
See:https://marionfreistadt.wixsite.com/lccv/submit-comments for most of my submitted comments, for example:
Penny's letter to Reps about HB488-opposition to blockchain development in Louisiana
NOTE: I'm trying to keep this updated throughout the legislative session. This is not identical to other lists. Subject to revision! Some of these bills are confusing! SEE "Submit Public comments" Tab for what to tell your Legislator. OK to copy comments. This Wix site won't let me link to the LEGIS site in the Table, so you have to go to https://legis.la.gov/legis/Home.aspx to find bills and info.
Most recent update: 4 15 .2024
Also, don't forget: Women on Wednesdays
Title | Bill | Support or Oppose? | What you can do (as of 4/15/24) | Description | Legislative Author | 1st-Chamber Committee Assignment | Comm Result | 1st Chamber result Passed ? | 2nd-Chamber Committee | 2nd Chamber committe and Comm Result | 2nd chamber: Passed? | Comments | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SB275 CHANGED TO SB503 | OPPOSE | Write 1.HNR committee 2. your REPRESENTATIVE TO OPPOSE IT | Kills Citizen Science Monitoring | Lambert | Environmental Quality | Heard on 3/26. New bill passed committee 4/2 https://senate.la.gov/s_video/VideoArchivePlayer?v=senate/2024/03/032624EQ | passed. | house Natural Resources waiting | https://legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245906 | ||||
HB488 | OPPOSE | Write the Senate Committee, when it gets scheuled. Write your senator if it passes committee | promotes Blockchain = more pollution | Wright | Commerce | passed | scheduled 04/02/2024. Passed. EVERY SINGLE REP VOTED FOR IT. NO NAYS, Despite emails to the contrary. | Pending Senate Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs | Really important to oppose. Blockchain is a big polluter, LA will lose out on this money-grab fad. See my comments on: | https://legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246246 | |||
HB800 | OPPOSE | Write your Representative + other reps. Write the committee | CALLS FOR a limited constitutional convention | Beaullieu | Pending House and Governmental Affairs. Sched. for 4/16/24 | This is a disaster. | |||||||
SB 342 | ?SUPPORT | LA Tumor Registry Provisions | Harris J | Health and Welfare. | passed | Subject to call - Senate final passage - Sched. for 4/15/24 | https://legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246623 | ||||||
SB430 | SUPPORT | Relative to the death penalty " to remove nitrogen hypoxia as a permissible method of
5 execution; and to provide for related matters" | Senator Katrina Jackson-Andrews | Pending Senate Judiciary B - Sched. for 4/16/24 | |||||||||
HB167 | OPPOSE | Write/call your senator | Felonizes using drones over infrastructure, petrochemical plants | Brass | Criminal Justice | passed | passed | JUD. C | passed 4/9. ALL REPS voted for it. | Pending Legislative Bureau | https://legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245741 | ||
SB238 | ?OPPOSE | ?Makes CCS land takings easier | Seabaugh | Judiciary A | passed | waiting senate vote Sched. for 4/15/24 | https://legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246398 | ||||||
SB432 | OPPOSE | WRITE Senate Environmental Quality Committee | undo years of progress to protect our drinking water. | Rick Edmonds | Pending Senate Environmental Quality - Sched. for 4/16/24 | ||||||||
HB56 | SUPPORT | Abortion Exception Provisions | Newell C | Criminal Justice. | waiting | https://legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245576 | |||||||
HB 63 | SUPPORT | Crime of Abortion Definition Amend | Newell C | Criminal Justice | Waiting | https://legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245584 | |||||||
HB 138 | SUPPORT | Crime of Nonconsensual Disclosure, Image | Schlegel L | Criminal Justice | passed | passed | Pending Senate Judiciary C | https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245702 | |||||
HB169 | SUPPORT | Removes limitation on CCS lawsuits | Robby Carter | Natural Resources and Environment. | waiting | https://legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245743 | |||||||
HB201 | OPPOSE | write your rep and the committee | Anti-EV for State | Chuck Owens | Appropriations | Sched. for 4/2/24 | appropriations | ?stalled | https://legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245807 | ||||
HB259 | OPPOSE | Severance Tax break for Oil/Gas | Beaullieu | Ways and Means | passed 3/20 | passed house | Pending Senate Revenue and Fiscal Affairs | waiting | https://legis.la.gov/legis/BillInfo.aspx?s=24RS&b=HB259&sbi=y | ||||
HB276 | OPPOSE | Restricts Air Monitoring by Private Companies | Natural Resources and Environment. | waiting | https://legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245913 | ||||||||
HB280 | SUPPORT | prohibit CCS in Lake Maurepas | Coates | killed.Pending House Natural Resources | https://legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245917 | ||||||||
HB289 | SUPPORT | prohibits Class VI in certain lakes | Shane Mack | Natural Resources and Environment | waiting; prob failed | https://legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245926 | |||||||
HB 293 | SUPPORT | Definition of Abortion | Freeman A | Criminal Justice | waiting | https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245930 | |||||||
HB305 | SUPPORT | Requires part of offshore wind revenues to go to CPRA | ORGERON | Appropriations | passed | passed house | Pending Senate Finance | waiting | this is a good bill and it might pass | https://legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245943 | |||
HB 310 | SUPPORT | Free Menstrual Products Requirement | Freeman A | education.Pending House Appropriations | waiting | https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245948 | |||||||
HB341 | OPPOSE | write your rep and the committee | Anti-EV for State vehicle fleet | Tarver | passed 3/20 | house, waiting | “Preserving Vehicle Purchase Choice Act,” | https://legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246024 | |||||
HB351 | OPPOSE | write your rep and the committee | RESTRICTIONS ON EV CHARGING | ROMERO | Commerce | Sched. for 4/2/24 | commerce | stalled? | If this wasn't so ludicrous, it would be worth opposing | https://legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246034 | |||
HB389 | SUPPORT | Moratorium on Lake Maurepas CCS | Mack | Natural Resources | waiting, prob defeated | https://legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246074 | |||||||
HB 395 | SUPPORT | Right to Contraception | Boyd D | Health and Welfare | 3/27 considered | ||||||||
HB418 | OPPOSE | Reduces Severance tax on orphan wells | BEAULLIEU | Ways and Means. | passed | passed house | Revenue and Fiscal Affairs. | waiting | https://legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246108 | ||||
HB507 | OPPOSE | passed | passed house | Pending Senate Judiciary C - Sched. for 4/16/24 | |||||||||
HB516 | SUPPORT | Adds Emergency Response to CCS | Natural Resources | passed with amendments | Scheduled for floor debate on 04/16/2024 | https://legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246274 | |||||||
HB535 | OPPOSE | Allow direct sales of EVs | FREEMAN | transportation | killed in committee | https://legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246293 | |||||||
HB 541 | SUPPORT | Nonconsensual Disclosure of Private Images | Lyons R | Criminal Justice | waiting | https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246299 | |||||||
HB 545 | oppose | Certain Materials in Public School Libraries | Amedee B | Criminal Justice | waiting | https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246303 | |||||||
HB 742 | SUPPORT | In Vitro Fertilization Providers Immunity | Marcelle C | Civil Law and Procedure | Waiting | https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246743 | |||||||
HB729 | SUPPORT | Removes eminent domain authority for carbon dioxide sequestration | Natural Resources | waiting | https://legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246710 | ||||||||
HB783 | not sure | Compensates Land Owners for CCS takings | McCormick | Civil Law and Procedure. | waiting | https://legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246892 | |||||||
SB76 | OPPOSE | reduces RighttoKnow | Fesi | Environmental Quality | stalled | https://legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245906 | |||||||
SB 254 | SUPPORT | Domestic Violence | Mizell B | Judiciary B | https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246502 | ||||||||
SB 276 | OPPOSE | Coerced Criminal Abortion & Attempted Abortion | Pressly T | Judiciary C | WAITING | https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246533 | |||||||
SB 278 | OPPOSE | Louisiana Pregnancy & Baby Care Initiative | Jackson-An | passed senate | Waiting | https://legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246545 | |||||||
SB466 | OPPOSE | Write/call your senator | FELONIZEs DRONE USE for environment | Edmonds | Judiciary C | passed | Pending Senate floor action Sched. for 4/15/24 |
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