Lauren Ventrella — House - District 65
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HB575: Provides relative to liability for the unlawful termination of a pregnancy
Last Action: Effective date: 08/01/2025.
Date: 2025-06-20
Author: Lauren Ventrella (R)
Co-sponsors: Beryl Amedee (R) Rhonda Butler (R) Dewith Carrier (R) Daryl Deshotel (R) Phillip DeVillier (R) Jason DeWitt (R) Kellee Dickerson (R) Kathy Edmonston (R) Peter Egan (R) Julie Emerson (R) Gabe Firment (R) Dodie Horton (R) Shane Mack (R) Danny McCormick (R) Charles Owen (R) Rodney Schamerhorn (R) Francis Thompson (R) Roger Wilder (R) Rick Edmonds (R)
...and 14 more.
📅 Not Scheduled
HB407: Provides relative to concealed handgun permits
Last Action: Effective date: 08/01/2025.
Date: 2025-06-11
Author: Lauren Ventrella (R)
📅 Not Scheduled
Proposes amendments to the Louisiana law regarding concealed handgun permits (R.S. 40:1379.3). Key changes include:
1. Wider Eligibility: Shifting eligibility from only "Louisiana residents" to "persons."
2. Lifetime Permits: Allows non-residents to apply for lifetime concealed handgun permits by changing references from “Louisiana resident” to “person.”
3. Repeal of Residency Requirements:
- Removes the requirement that a permit holder must be a Louisiana resident.
- Removes the provision that suspends a lifetime permit if the holder moves out of Louisiana.
4. Other Eligibility Changes: Adjustments to eligibility criteria for convicted felons and those with expunged records, while keeping restrictions on violent crime convictions and mental health adjudications.
HB105: Appropriates funds for payment of the consent judgment against the state in the matter entitled Marchand v. State of La. et al.
Last Action: Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
Date: 2025-04-14
Author: Lauren Ventrella (R)
Pending: 🏛 Appropriations 71 📅 Not Scheduled
Appropriates $450,000 from the State General Fund (Direct) for Fiscal Year 2024-2025 to pay a consent judgment in the case "Jared Marchand v. State of Louisiana, through the Department of Transportation and Development, et al."
HB406: Provides relative to expungement of agency records
Last Action: Becomes HB 682.
Date: 2025-04-30
Author: Lauren Ventrella (R)
📅 Not Scheduled
Proposes to add R.S. 49:988 to Louisiana law. Its purpose is to allow for the expungement of agency records under specific circumstances.
Key Provisions:
1. Eligibility for Expungement:
- A person can request expungement of agency records related to a consent judgment or complaint if:
- The Attorney General determines that the agency's legal interpretation that led to the consent agreement was erroneous.
- Enforcement proceedings based on the complaint concluded without finding a violation of the law.
2. Scope:
- The bill applies specifically to agency records tied to consent judgments or complaints alleging violations of the law.
3. Objective:
- To provide individuals a legal avenue to clear their records when complaints were based on incorrect legal interpretations or when complaints did not result in proven violations.
HB411: Adds emergency medical services to the Fire Service Bill of Rights
Last Action: Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.
Date: 2025-04-14
Author: Lauren Ventrella (R)
Co-sponsors: John Wyble (R)
Pending: 🏛 Health and Welfare 47 📅 Not Scheduled
Amends the Louisiana Fire Service Bill of Rights (R.S. 33:2012) by expanding its coverage to include Emergency Medical Services (EMS).
Renaming: The bill renames the act to the "Louisiana Fire and Emergency Medical Services Service Bill of Rights."
Rights Affirmed:
- Recognizing fire and EMS personnel as first responders to all domestic emergencies.
- Ensuring protection from dangers associated with emergency response.
- Providing support for the families of first responders.
- Offering education on the latest fire and life safety sciences.
- Guaranteeing access to state-of-the-art equipment.
- Promoting sharing of effective safety programs.
- Ensuring awareness of hazardous materials and infectious disease risks.
- Encouraging public partnership in safety efforts.
- Honoring the history and sacrifices of fire and EMS personnel.
Ensures that EMS personnel receive the same protections and rights as fire service personnel under Louisiana law.
HB492: Provides relative to cruelty to animals (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)
Last Action: Effective date: 08/01/2025.
Date: 2025-06-08
Author: Lauren Ventrella (R)
📅 Not Scheduled
Revises and clarifies Louisiana's laws on simple and aggravated cruelty to animals.
Key Changes:
- Clarifies language and definitions of cruelty offenses.
- Removes as "simple cruelty" the injury of another’s animal and mistreatment causing pain or death—moves those to "aggravated cruelty."
- Adds aggravated cruelty for failure to provide food, water, shelter, or vet care resulting in death.
- Increases mandatory community service for simple cruelty from 5 to five 8-hour days.
- Allows or mandates psychological evaluation depending on offense history.
- Updates penalties:
- Simple cruelty: up to 6 months jail/$1,000 fine; enhanced penalties for repeat offenses.
- Aggravated cruelty: 1–10 years prison, $5,000–$25,000 fine.
- Clarifies that each abused animal counts as a separate offense.
- Corrects agricultural exemption language.
HB649: Provides relative to the Recreation and Park Commission for the parish of East Baton Rouge and the Capital Area Transit System
Last Action: Effective date: 06/20/2025.
Date: 2025-06-20
Author: Lauren Ventrella (R)
📅 Not Scheduled
Allows the City of Central to continue in its autonomy as an independent city controlling its own parks and recreation, mandating cooperation from the BREC.
Creates the Central Recreation District in East Baton Rouge Parish, separating the city of Central from the jurisdiction of the parish-wide Recreation and Park Commission (BREC).
Key Provisions:
- Establishes a new Central Recreation District with boundaries matching the city of Central.
- Transfers control of parks, buildings, assets, and programs within Central from BREC to the new district effective July 1, 2025.
- Removes Central from BREC’s taxing authority, except where taxes are pledged to bonded debt.
- Authorizes the new district to levy up to 12 mills in ad valorem taxes (2025–2030) and additional taxes starting in 2031, subject to voter approval.
- Sets governance by the Central mayor, city council, and one state House appointee.
- Mandates full asset transfer cooperation from BREC and prohibits obstruction, asset removal, or unrelated debt assignments.
HB682: Provides relative to the expungement of certain adjudication records (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Last Action: Effective date: 08/01/2025.
Date: 2025-06-10
Author: Lauren Ventrella (R)
📅 Not Scheduled
Allows individuals to request expungement of certain administrative adjudication records if legal error is found or if no violation was determined.
Key Provisions:
- Authorizes expungement if the Attorney General finds the agency's legal basis was erroneous, or if the person was not found to have violated the law.
- Requires the person to file a written expungement request with the agency.
- If justified, the agency must order expungement and notify the Division of Administrative Law if involved.
- Expunged records must be removed from public access but not destroyed.
- Expunged records and expungement requests are confidential and no longer considered public records.
- Updates the Public Records Law to reflect this new exemption.
HCR79: Recognizes June 4, 2025, as Opportunity Youth Day at the state capitol
Last Action: Taken by the Clerk of the House and presented to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House.
Date: 2025-06-05
Author: Lauren Ventrella (R)
📅 Not Scheduled
SENATE floor amendment set 3099 [LINK] removes a JUDA amendment that limited liability protections for certain support roles and delete set 3036 Amendment 6 related to defining actions that "substantially facilitate" an abortion.
SENATE floor amendment set 3036 [LINK] limit civil suits to the mother only, remove references to “caused” abortions, clarify that lawful medical dispensing is exempt, and set a five-year window to sue from discovery, with a ten-year limit from the abortion date.
SENATE technical floor amendments
SENATE JUDA committee amendments [LINK] allow civil suits against anyone who knowingly facilitates an abortion, including through abortion drugs. Suits may be filed by the mother or father, unless conception involved rape, assault, or incest. Lawful medical and pharmacy actions are exempt. Medical malpractice law applies to licensed providers.
HOUSE bureau floor amendments technical in nature and amendment set 2921 [LINK] specifically deletes manufacturing
HOUSE committee amendments [LINK] clarify and expand the definition of who can be held liable for abortions in Louisiana. They specify liability applies to any person or entity who causes or substantially facilitates an abortion, defining "substantially facilitates" as actions like manufacturing, prescribing, dispensing, distributing, marketing, or selling abortion-inducing drugs. The amendments also explicitly protect mental health professionals and sexual assault advocates who provide counseling or support without promoting or referring abortion resources.
Expands civil liability for unlawful termination of a pregnancy and authorizes more individuals to sue for damages.
Key Provisions:
- Extends the prescriptive period from 3 to 5 years, with a 10-year peremptive limit.
- Allows lawsuits by the father (unless conception was due to rape, sexual assault, or incest), grandparents, or the mother’s legal custodian if she was a minor.
- Permits claims against anyone who causes, aids, or abets an abortion, including by providing abortion-inducing drugs.
- Exempts the woman who had the abortion, licensed physicians providing non-abortive care, and pharmacists filling valid prescriptions.
- Allows recovery of statutory, special, general, and exemplary damages, plus attorney fees and court costs.
- Authorizes pseudonym use and protective orders to preserve the woman’s privacy.
- Cites the bill as the "Justice for Victims of Abortion Drug Dealers Act".