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Read. Follow. Verify.Louisiana requires parental consent for minor medical care and repeals school preventive counseling authority
Last action · June 9, 2026: Effective date: 08/01/2026.Sponsors: Emily Chenevert and 12 others
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What This Bill Does
Louisiana requires parental, guardian, or temporary custodian consent for medical procedures performed on minors, while maintaining specific exceptions for armed forces members, s, pregnancy care, substance misuse treatment, sexually transmitted disease treatment, blood donation, abuse or neglect evaluation, voluntary treatment facility admission, college students, and contraceptives. The law also guarantees parental access to minor medical records, protects healthcare providers from civil and criminal liability except for negligence, and repeals the authority of schools or facilities to provide preventive counseling or treatment without parental consent.
Parents and legal guardians gain explicit decision-making authority and guaranteed access to medical records for minor children, while healthcare providers are shielded from liability when relying in good faith on temporary caregivers, and minors lose the ability to receive school-based preventive counseling without parental permission.
- House Bill 775 was enacted during the 2026 Regular Session of the Louisiana Legislature and signed into law as Act 835. context
Who It Affects
Groups the bill's text affects, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Minors
Minors are required to obtain parental or guardian consent for most medical procedures, with specific exceptions, and lose access to school-based preventive counseling without parental approval.
Parents and legal guardians
Parents and legal guardians gain decision-making authority over non-emergency medical procedures for minor children and guaranteed access to their medical records.
Hospitals and healthcare professionals
Healthcare providers receive protection from civil and criminal liability when acting in good faith under parental or temporary caregiver consent, except in cases of negligence.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Do parents have the right to access their minor child's medical records under this law?
Can minors still consent to certain medical services on their own?
Can schools still provide preventive counseling to minors without notifying parents?
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Current status: Signed into law.
Procedural history
31 actions- Jun 9, 2026HouseEnrolledSigned by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 835.
- Jun 9, 2026HouseEffective date: 08/01/2026.
- Jun 4, 2026HouseSent to the Governor for executive approval.
- Jun 1, 2026SenateEnrolledSigned by the President of the Senate.
- May 31, 2026HouseEnrolledEnrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- May 29, 2026HouseIntroducedRead by title, roll called, yeas 67, nays 30, Senate amendments concurred in.
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- May 28, 2026SenateCalled from the Calendar.
- May 28, 2026SenateFloorSenate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 28 yeas and 7 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
- May 28, 2026HouseReceived from the Senate with amendments.
- May 28, 2026HouseScheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2026.
- May 27, 2026SenateCalled from the Calendar.
- May 27, 2026SenateIntroducedRead by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- May 26, 2026SenateRules suspended.
- May 26, 2026SenateIntroducedRead by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- May 25, 2026SenateFloorReported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- May 21, 2026SenateFloorCommittee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- May 20, 2026SenateReported with amendments.
- May 13, 2026SenateCommitteeRead second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.
- May 12, 2026HouseCalled from the calendar.
- May 12, 2026HouseFloorRead third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
- May 12, 2026SenateReceived in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- May 11, 2026HouseIntroducedRead by title, returned to the calendar.
- May 11, 2026HouseNotice given.
- May 11, 2026HouseScheduled for floor debate on 05/12/2026.
- May 7, 2026HouseFloorRead by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- May 7, 2026HouseScheduled for floor debate on 05/11/2026.
- May 6, 2026HouseReported with amendments (9-0).
- Mar 9, 2026HouseIntroducedRead by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.
- Feb 27, 2026HousePrefiled.
- Feb 27, 2026HouseCommitteeUnder the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.
- Feb 27, 2026HouseFirst appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.
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Discoveries
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Repeal of School Preventive Counseling Authority
The legislation explicitly removes the legal authority for schools or facilities to offer preventive counseling or treatment to minors without parental consent.
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Sources
www.legis.la.gov
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- Controversy80Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment10Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
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