Votes at a glance: multiple Senate bills advanced or passed April 29 session

The Louisiana Senate took recorded or voice votes on a series of bills during the April 29 floor session. Most measures were local or technical in nature and carried with unanimous or near‑unanimous support. Items recorded on the floor included:

• Senate Bill 1 33 (payment of wages): Sponsor: Senator Presley. Sponsor said the bill clarifies that profit interests are not wages. The clerk reported the vote (reported by the clerk as in favor); the floor announced the bill passed (machine vote reported as 38 yays and 0 nays in the record).

• Senate Bill 1 39 (Lamar Dixon Expo Center leases): Sponsor: Senator Price. Local bill authorizing Ascension Parish governing authority to execute long‑term leases at the Lamar Dixon Expo Center; recorded machine vote announced as 39 yays and 0 nays.

• Senate Bill 1 40 (naming of public building, Lafayette): Sponsor: Senator Boudreaux. Local bill authorizing the City of Lafayette to name a recreation complex after John Cush LeBlanc; recorded vote announced as 39 yays and 0 nays.

• Senate Bill 1 43 (Vermilion Parish hospital service districts): Sponsor: Senator Hennings (floor record). Local bill adjusting terms of commissioners for certain hospital service districts; vote announced as 39 yays and 0 nays.

• Senate Bill 1 67 (levee repair contract limit): Sponsor: Senator Bridal. The bill increases an annual contracting limit for levee rehabilitation (current cap and sunset language retained per sponsor); vote announced as 39 yays and 0 nays.

• Senate Bill 1 81 (illegal online gambling by computer): Sponsor: Senator Bass. Sponsor described the bill as targeting unlawful offshore and domestic online casinos that evade consumer protections; recorded vote announced as 39 yays and 0 nays.

• Senate Bill 1 82 (Medicaid prior authorization during declared emergencies): Sponsor: Senator Talbot. Floor amendments broadened the scope to allow the Louisiana Department of Health to suspend utilization‑management requirements (including prior authorization and concurrent review) for the medical assistance program during a gubernatorial declared emergency; recorded vote announced as 39 yays and 0 nays. The sponsor noted adoption of multiple amendments offered on the floor.

• Senate Bill 1 85 (naming a boat launch at Bussey Brake WMA): Sponsor: Senator Cathy. Local naming bill to designate the boat launch after Kenny Haddocks; vote announced as 39 yays and 0 nays.

• Senate Bill 1 87 (Saint Martin Parish economic and industrial development district): Sponsor: Senator Boudreaux. Local bill creating the district; vote announced as 39 yays and 0 nays.

• Senate Bill 1 90 (dedication of portion of US‑61): Sponsor: Senator Edmonds. Bill dedicates a portion of US‑61 as a memorial highway for fallen officers; vote announced as 39 yays and 0 nays.

• Senate Bill 2 32 (Motion Picture Production Tax Credit program administration): Sponsor: Senator Bass. The bill moves the program’s rulemaking to the LED (Louisiana Economic Development) and adds legislative oversight for rules; sponsor explained amendments and the cap/sunset were unchanged; vote announced as 39 yays and 0 nays.

• Senate Bill 3 2 (gypsum utilization/agriculture liability): Sponsor: Senator Allain. The bill establishes grading and tolerance standards (with Department of Agriculture/LSU AgCenter consultation) so certain gypsum byproducts can be used in agriculture and limits civil liability for agricultural producers using approved gypsum; recorded vote announced as 39 yays and 0 nays.

For most of these items the sponsor moved final passage and the clerk announced machine votes; the floor recorded unanimous or near‑unanimous support in the official announcements. Where the transcript records coauthor lists or requests to open the machines for coauthors, the clerk recorded coauthor totals. Several items were local bills advertised and approved by the relevant local governing authorities before reaching the Senate floor.

Note: This roundup lists floor actions and the vote tallies as announced on the Senate floor transcript. For the IVF bill (Senate Bill 1 56) the floor recorded a 34‑to‑5 tally but the presiding officer announced the bill was "not passed" and a motion to reconsider was filed; that item is covered separately.