Beth Mizell — Senate - District 12
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SB54: Provides for a limited fiscal administrator for political subdivisions. (8/1/25) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF RV See Note)
Last Action: Effective date 8/1/2025.
Date: 2025-06-08
Author: Beth Mizell (R)
📅 Not Scheduled
SB151: Provides relative to the Louisiana Procurement Code. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)
Last Action: Effective date 6/11/2025.
Date: 2025-06-11
Author: Beth Mizell (R)
📅 Not Scheduled
The bill requires advertisement in the centralized electronic system run by the State Division of Administration. Removes paid newspaper ad requirement, saving money/cuts waste.
SENATE committee amendments technical except Amendments 3&10 [LINK] which leave statewide journal ads optional yet if there is a single budget unit procurement at the parish level, a local parish newspaper ad is mandatory.
Overhauls portions of the Louisiana Procurement Code to streamline procurement processes, increase flexibility, modernize advertising requirements, and clarify contract disputes and appeals.
Key Provisions:
- Reduces public notice period for small purchase bids from 10 to 5 days.
- Shifts advertising of bids and RFPs to a centralized electronic system, replacing many print requirements.
- Raises competitive RFP thresholds for consulting contracts from $50,000 to $150,000.
- Allows withdrawal or modification of proposals any time before negotiations conclude.
- Requires detailed contract elements and clear timelines, including at least a 14-day gap between notice of award and contract start.
- Enables negotiations with next-best proposer if top proposer negotiations fail.
- Expands authority for lease renegotiation and increases space thresholds for lease bidding and amendments.
- Creates a protest bond requirement equal to 25% of the contract value to obtain a stay during a procurement protest.
- Limits the role of courts in procurement challenges to appellate review only and gives great weight to administrative decisions unless arbitrary or capricious.
- Clarifies timelines and procedures for contract dispute appeals and enforcement.
- Expands cooperative purchasing to include all types of service contracts.
- Effective upon governor’s signature.
SB152: Provides relative to sentencing of defendants who are victims of domestic abuse, sexual assault, or human trafficking. (8/1/25)
Last Action: Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C.
Date: 2025-04-14
Author: Beth Mizell (R)
Pending: 🏛 Judiciary C 4 📅 Not Scheduled
Creates an affirmative defense and reduced sentencing guidelines for criminal defendants who are victims of domestic abuse, sexual assault, or human trafficking.
Key Provisions (Opposition Analysis):
- Allows defendants to avoid full criminal accountability by claiming victim status, even if the crime is serious and unrelated to their abuse history.
- Expands admissibility of prior abuse claims with relaxed evidentiary standards, increasing risk of misuse or manipulation.
- Grants broad discretion to courts to reduce mandatory sentences, potentially weakening deterrence and consistency in sentencing.
- Applies retroactively for resentencing through 2028, which could reopen closed cases and impose burdens on courts and prosecutors.
- Lacks strong safeguards to prevent false or exaggerated claims of abuse from influencing criminal liability or sentencing outcomes.
- Effective August 1, 2025.
SB161: Provides relative to Louisiana Economic Development. (8/1/25) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)
Last Action: Effective date 8/1/2025.
Date: 2025-06-20
Author: Beth Mizell (R)
Co-sponsors: Mark Abraham (R) Joseph Bouie (D) Patrick Connick (R) Jimmy Harris (D) John Morris (R)
📅 Not Scheduled
SENATE floor amendments [LINK] clarify that all money intended for the new economic development fund must first be processed through the Bond Security and Redemption Fund in accordance with the state constitution. They define the sources of the fund’s revenue, including legislative appropriations, grants, donations, and other available monies, and ensure that all investment earnings remain in the fund. The amendments also expand and clarify the duties of the board overseeing the fund, directing it to develop and implement a coordinated strategy to attract international business and foreign investment, working with both public and private entities, including multiple state departments and ports.
SENATE committee amendments technical
Reorganizes Louisiana Economic Development (LED), consolidates offices, creates a new innovation fund, and updates governance of international commerce efforts.
Key Provisions:
- Replaces LED’s multiple offices with a single Office of Economic Development.
- Abolishes the Office of Entertainment Industry Development and Office of International Commerce; their duties move under LED.
- Grants LED’s secretary authority to buy, lease, or sell property to support economic projects; proceeds go to the Site Investment and Infrastructure Fund.
- Creates the Louisiana Economic Development Innovation Fund for flexible economic initiatives, funded by appropriations and self-generated revenue.
- Restructures the Louisiana Board of International Commerce as an advisory board with reduced duties.
- Revises board membership to include appointees from economic regions, industry, ports, utilities, and state agencies.
- Removes obsolete statutes and definitions related to now-abolished offices.
- Effective August 1, 2025.
SB221: Provides relative to massage therapy. (8/1/25) (EN +$82,200 SG RV See Note)
Last Action: Effective date 8/1/2025.
Date: 2025-06-20
Author: Beth Mizell (R)
Co-sponsors: Mark Abraham (R) Regina Barrow (D) Gerald Boudreaux (D) Gary Carter (D) Heather Cloud (R) Cameron Henry (R) Bob Hensgens (R) Katrina Jackson-Andrews (D) W. Jay Luneau (D) Edward Price (D) Jeremy Stine (R)
...and 6 more.
📅 Not Scheduled
SENATE floor amendments [LINK] expand the authority of the massage therapy board, tighten operational rules for massage establishments, and enhance background check requirements. Specifically, they clarify the board’s power to adopt rules preventing fraud, abuse, and human trafficking; prohibit massage establishments from serving as domiciles or sleeping quarters unless properly zoned; require mandatory criminal background checks for license and registration renewals; and automatically revoke establishment licenses for violations related to their operations.
SENATE committee amendments [LINK] add penalties for massage therapy establishments. If an owner, manager, or supervisor violates the law, the establishment’s license will be automatically revoked. No new license can be issued for that same location after revocation.
- Requires in-person inspections within 10 days of any complaint alleging illicit activity at a massage therapist establishment.
- Mandates criminal background checks for applicants for massage therapy establishment licenses and all renewing licensees licensed prior to April 1, 2022.
- Requires the Louisiana Board of Massage Therapy to submit annual reports to the legislature, including complaint summaries, inspection data, licensing activity, and outcomes of investigations.
Effective August 1, 2025.
SCR12: Commends the American Irish State Legislators Caucus.
Last Action: Sent to the Secretary of State by the Secretary of the Senate.
Date: 2025-05-07
Author: Beth Mizell (R)
Co-sponsors: Mark Abraham (R) Regina Barrow (D) Gerald Boudreaux (D) Joseph Bouie (D) Gary Carter (D) Heather Cloud (R) Patrick Connick (R) Royce Duplessis (D) Michael Fesi (R) Franklin Foil (R) Jimmy Harris (D) Cameron Henry (R) Bob Hensgens (R) Valarie Hodges (R) Katrina Jackson-Andrews (D) Patrick McMath (R) John Morris (R) Robert Owen (R) Thomas Pressly (R) Edward Price (D) Jeremy Stine (R) Kirk Talbot (R)
...and 17 more.
📅 Not Scheduled
SCR21: Establishes the Louisiana-Ireland Trade Commission.
Last Action: Sent to the Secretary of State by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/13/2025.
Date: 2025-06-12
Author: Beth Mizell (R)
Co-sponsors: Dixon McMakin (R)
📅 Not Scheduled
SR110: Commends the Louisiana Department of Health's launching of Project Maternal Overdose Mortality (Project M.O.M.).
Last Action: Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate and sent to the Secretary of State by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/22/2025.
Date: 2025-05-27
Author: Beth Mizell (R)
📅 Not Scheduled
SR119: Requests the Louisiana Department of Education to develop and implement a system for collecting and reporting aggregated, non-identifiable data on suicide risk assessments conducted in public schools.
Last Action: Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate and sent to the Secretary of State by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/5/2025.
Date: 2025-06-08
Author: Beth Mizell (R)
📅 Not Scheduled
SR121: Commends the Ready Louisiana Coalition and designates Tuesday, May 20, 2025, as Early Ed Day at the Louisiana State Capitol.
Last Action: Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate and sent to the Secretary of State by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/22/2025.
Date: 2025-05-27
Author: Beth Mizell (R)
Co-sponsors: Gerald Boudreaux (D)
📅 Not Scheduled
SR122: Requests local governing authorities to adopt abatement of public nuisances ordinances to deter illicit businesses, including massage therapy establishments operating without a license or engaging in criminal acts.
Last Action: Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate and sent to the Secretary of State by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/5/2025.
Date: 2025-06-08
Author: Beth Mizell (R)
📅 Not Scheduled
SR126: Requests the Louisiana Department of Health to post nursing home ratings on its website.
Last Action: Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate and sent to the Secretary of State by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/5/2025.
Date: 2025-06-08
Author: Beth Mizell (R)
📅 Not Scheduled
SR136: Recognizes the 50th Anniversary of the State Government Affairs Council and commends its contributions to state government affairs.
Last Action: Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate and sent to the Secretary of State by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/30/2025.
Date: 2025-06-01
Author: Beth Mizell (R)
📅 Not Scheduled
SR144: Requests the Louisiana Department of Health to propose solutions to the SANE nurse shortage.
Last Action: Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate and sent to the Secretary of State by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/13/2025.
Date: 2025-06-12
Author: Beth Mizell (R)
📅 Not Scheduled
SR157: Commends the volunteers and members of the 2025 Concerned Women for America's Encourage-A-Legislator Project.
Last Action: Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate and sent to the Secretary of State by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/5/2025.
Date: 2025-06-08
Author: Beth Mizell (R)
📅 Not Scheduled
SR160: Commends The Center for Literacy and Learning and designates May 13, 2025, as Literacy Day at the Louisiana State Capitol.
Last Action: Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate and sent to the Secretary of State by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/5/2025.
Date: 2025-06-08
Author: Beth Mizell (R)
📅 Not Scheduled
SR177: Requests the Louisiana Department of Health to provide information to the legislature on child firearm deaths and Child Access Prevention laws.
Last Action: Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate and sent to the Secretary of State by the Secretary of the Senate.
Date: 2025-06-10
Author: Beth Mizell (R)
📅 Not Scheduled
SR18: Designates Monday, April 14, 2025, as Better Together-Children's Advocacy Centers and Court Appointed Special Advocate Day in Louisiana.
Last Action: Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate and sent to the Secretary of State by the Secretary of the Senate on 4/17/2025.
Date: 2025-04-22
Author: Beth Mizell (R)
📅 Not Scheduled
SR206: Creates the Youth Tobacco and Nicotine Cessation Task Force.
Last Action: Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate and sent to the Secretary of State by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/13/2025.
Date: 2025-06-12
Author: Beth Mizell (R)
📅 Not Scheduled
SR55: Recognizes April 30, 2025, as Louisiana Federation of Republican Women Day at the Louisiana State Capitol.
Last Action: Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate and sent to the Secretary of State by the Secretary of the Senate.
Date: 2025-05-07
Author: Beth Mizell (R)
Co-sponsors: Heather Cloud (R) Valarie Hodges (R)
📅 Not Scheduled
SR64: Commends the Louisiana Foundation Against Sexual Assault and designates Wednesday, April 30, 2025, as Denim Day at the Louisiana State Capitol.
Last Action: Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate and sent to the Secretary of State by the Secretary of the Senate.
Date: 2025-05-07
Author: Beth Mizell (R)
Co-sponsors: Heather Cloud (R) Valarie Hodges (R)
📅 Not Scheduled
SR85: Commends the St. Tammany Parish School System on winning first place in the Louisiana Governor's Games' Thirtieth Annual Elementary State Championship Fitness Meet.
Last Action: Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate and sent to the Secretary of State by the Secretary of the Senate.
Date: 2025-05-14
Author: Beth Mizell (R)
Co-sponsors: Patrick McMath (R) Robert Owen (R) William Wheat (R)
📅 Not Scheduled
SR87: Designates May 6, 2025, as Ellevate Louisiana Day at the Louisiana State Capitol and commends its mission to empower women.
Last Action: Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate and sent to the Secretary of State by the Secretary of the Senate.
Date: 2025-05-14
Author: Beth Mizell (R)
📅 Not Scheduled
SR91: Requests the office of motor vehicles to study the feasibility of including blood type on driver's licenses, permits and identification cards.
Last Action: Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate and sent to the Secretary of State by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/22/2025.
Date: 2025-05-27
Author: Beth Mizell (R)
📅 Not Scheduled
Requests the Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles (OMV) to study the feasibility of voluntarily including blood type information on state-issued driver's licenses, permits, and identification cards. The study must evaluate implementation logistics, costs, public health benefits, and privacy concerns. The OMV is required to report findings and recommendations to the Senate Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works no later than sixty days before the 2026 Regular Session.
SR95: Recognizes May 9, 2025, as Child Care Provider Appreciation Day.
Last Action: Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate and sent to the Secretary of State by the Secretary of the Senate.
Date: 2025-05-14
Author: Beth Mizell (R)
📅 Not Scheduled
SR97: Expresses sincere condolences upon the passing of James Mason Ballard Sr.
Last Action: Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate and sent to the Secretary of State by the Secretary of the Senate.
Date: 2025-05-14
Author: Beth Mizell (R)
📅 Not Scheduled
SR98: Requests the Louisiana Department of Health to educate the public on risk factors and symptoms of lung cancer and to promote lung cancer screening.
Last Action: Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate and sent to the Secretary of State by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/30/2025.
Date: 2025-06-01
Author: Beth Mizell (R)
📅 Not Scheduled
Requests the Louisiana Department of Health to provide public education on lung cancer, emphasizing awareness of risk factors and symptoms, and promoting early lung cancer screening. The resolution highlights the high incidence and mortality rates of lung cancer in Louisiana, stresses early detection to improve survival rates, and identifies key risk factors beyond smoking, including environmental exposures and medical history.
FISCAL OVERSIGHT OF SPECIAL DISTRICTS GONE AWRY (and as amended water systems)
SENATE bureau floor amendments technical; other floor amendments set 1661 [LINK] expand the scope of SB54 to include public water systems and receivers in the provisions originally designated for fiscal administrators. Specifically, they establish the "Fiscal Administrator and Receiver Revolving Loan Fund," broaden eligibility for loans from the fund to include public water systems undergoing receivership or fiscal administration, and clarify that funds may be used to cover associated costs, including administrative expenses. The amendments consistently insert references to "receivers" and "public water systems" throughout, ensuring these entities are explicitly covered by the bill.
SENATE committee amendments [LINK] clarify and expand the conditions under which a fiscal administrator can be appointed to help stabilize financially troubled political subdivisions. The amendments define "financial stability" and set specific criteria indicating instability, such as insufficient revenue, missed debt payments, fraud, false records, audit deficiencies, and unpaid obligations. They reduce from three years to two the consecutive years a political subdivision can fail to provide required audits before being considered financially unstable. Additionally, the amendments outline procedural requirements for appointing a fiscal administrator, including a mandatory court hearing and the role of the attorney general in initiating the process.
Establishes the role of a limited jurisdiction fiscal administrator for political subdivisions in Louisiana. This position would address emergencies affecting fiscal stability and the public welfare of these subdivisions.
Key Provisions:
By proposing this legislation, the state intends to ensure timely and effective management of fiscal emergencies within political subdivisions, protecting the financial stability and overall welfare of Louisiana residents.