Major accomplishments include:
- Enacted a law to ban smoking in restaurants
- Defeated a law to impose monetary penalties on licensed childcare facilities
- Enacting a primary seat belt law
- Enacted a law to require charity hospitals to continue to be subject to the state’s Open Meetings law
- Amendment of a state Public Records Law and the Louisiana Procurement Code
- Successful in securing state funding for several non-profit organizations
- Strengthened Governor Foster’s concealed carried weapons law to include safety training provisions
- Enacted a preference law for meat processors and other agricultural interests
- Enacted the Child Passenger Safety Law
- Enacted a law requiring insurers to cover hearing aids for children
- Enacted a law to require insurers to pay for osteoporosis screenings