2025 Regular Session
HB690
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
Legislative progress
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Formerly HB377 which would have created statute for EUA drugs, this legislation asks the Surgeon General to draft and promulgate rules regarding EUA drugs. As was witnessed during covid, physicians were inadequately educated about EUA drugs, the federally required information that should have been made known to recipients of EUA drugs was not properly disseminated to healthcare workers nor the public at large. During the covid commission, it was revealed that hospitals nor medical associations offered education on EUA drugs and interventions. Why is this bill important? EUA drugs and interventions are not fully approved by the FDA, therefore experimental in nature.
No public reasoning provided.
Recorded floor votes
5 roll calls are available for this bill. This record includes procedural and intermediate action as well as substantive final votes.
May 20, 2025 · House
House Vote on HB 690 FINAL PASSAGE (#507)
Passed ⭐ Substantive final action
73 yea–22 nay · 10 absent
June 9, 2025 · Senate
Senate Vote on HB 690 FINAL PASSAGE (#799)
Passed ⭐ Substantive final action
39 yea–0 nay
June 10, 2025 · House
House Vote on HB 690 REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1153)
Passed
57 yea–37 nay · 11 absent
June 12, 2025 · House
House Vote on HB 690 ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1245)
Passed
96 yea–0 nay · 9 absent
June 12, 2025 · Senate
Senate Vote on HB 690 ADOPT (#975)
Passed
37 yea–0 nay · 2 absent
Committee referrals
May 27, 2025 · Senate
Health & Welfare
Instrument history
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This is the complete recorded action history in the current source package. Highlighted entries are marked as significant by the source. A roll-call link appears only when a vote-like action has one unambiguous same-day chamber vote.
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House Effective date: 06/20/2025.
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House Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 396.
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House Sent to the Governor for executive approval.
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Senate Signed by the President of the Senate.
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House Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
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Senate Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report. View roll call
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House Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
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Senate Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays. View roll call
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House Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted. View roll call
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House Rules suspended.
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House Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules.
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Senate Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
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House House conferees appointed: Owen, Miller, and Crews.
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House Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
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Senate Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
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Senate Senate conference committee members appointed: Fesi, Cloud, and McMath.
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House Read by title, roll called, yeas 57, nays 37, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
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House Scheduled for concurrence on 06/10/2025.
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House Received from the Senate with amendments.
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Senate Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. View roll call
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Senate Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
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Senate Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
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Senate Senate floor amendments read and adopted.
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Senate Rules suspended.
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Senate Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
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Senate Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
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Senate Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.
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Senate Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
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House Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 73, nays 22. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. View roll call
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House Scheduled for floor debate on 05/20/2025.
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House Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
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House Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 377 reported by the Committee on Health and Welfare (10-0).