Senate passes range of bills on April 14, including health, education and local measures; unanimous tallies on key items

The Louisiana Senate on April 14 advanced and passed a broad group of bills on third reading and final passage, recording the outcomes on the floor for each measure.

Key final-passage outcomes included:

- Senate Bill 124 (peer review records for health systems): Described by its floor sponsor as allowing health systems to conduct system-level peer review and share information among hospitals while maintaining confidentiality and discovery protections. Final passage: 35 yays, 0 nays.

- Senate Bill 169 (biomarker testing coverage): The bill requires coverage for biomarker testing when clinical utility is demonstrated and prohibits conditioning coverage on unrelated lab credentialing. Final passage: 35 yays, 0 nays.

- Senate Bill 206 (school blood pressure testing): Adds blood-pressure screening to existing student health assessments and provides testing requirements for student-athletes based on evidence-based guidelines; final passage: 35 yays, 0 nays.

- Senate Bill 399 (Louisiana Higher Education Protection Act): Sponsor said the bill would bar research institutions from accepting funds from federally listed "foreign adversaries"; technical amendments were adopted and the bill passed by recorded vote (36 yays, 0 nays).

- A set of local and ceremonial bills (naming highways, adding seats to a drainage district, civil-service classification matters) passed with recorded unanimous tallies where noted (35–36 yays, 0 nays depending on the bill).

Several bills drew no floor questions or only brief explanation before votes; where objections were registered on the floor, items were passed over or taken up later. The Senate also received messages from the House asking concurrence on a large batch of House bills and introduced additional House bills for referral. Committee reports from multiple Senate committees were read and several bills were reported favorably with or without amendments.

Votes at a glance (selected items from the session): SB 124 — passed (35-0); SB 169 — passed (35-0); SB 206 — passed (35-0); SB 399 — passed (36-0); SB 417 — passed (36-0); SB 429 — passed (36-0); SB 441 — passed (35-0).

Where the transcript recorded the machine call, the Clerk announced the recorded tallies. Several sponsors moved to reconsider and table the motions without objection; routine motions to lay reconsideration on the table were entered for multiple bills following passage.