Our Accomplishments

Selected List of Major Accomplishments

  • Enacted the Smoke Free Air Act which banned smoking in restaurants

  • Defeated a law to impose monetary penalties on licensed childcare facilities

  • Enacting the primary seat belt law

  • Enacted the Child Passenger Safety Law

  • Enacted a law to require charity hospitals to continue to be subject to Louisiana's Open Meetings law

  • Amended Louisiana's Public Records Law and the Louisiana Procurement Code

  • Secured funding for Louisiana's school based health clinics

  • Strengthened Governor Foster’s concealed carried weapons law to include hunter safety requirements

  • Enacted a state preference law for meat processors and other agricultural industries

  • Enacted a law requiring insurance and managed care companies to cover hearing aids for children

  • Enacted a law to require insurance and managed care companies to cover osteoporosis screenings

  • Enacted a law to repeal the mandatory retirement age of 70 for justices of the peace and constables

  • Secured Capital Outlay funding for the Lighthouse for the Blind in New Orleans