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Read. Follow. Verify.Louisiana Expands Expedited Partner Therapy to Include Trichomoniasis and Additional Infections
Last action · May 29, 2026: Effective date: 08/01/2026.Sponsors: Aimee Adatto Freeman and 1 other
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What This Bill Does
Act 567 allows licensed physicians, advanced practice registered nurses, and physician assistants to provide antibiotic prescriptions to the sexual partners of patients diagnosed with or other Department of Health-approved infections without an examination of the partner. The law also protects healthcare providers and pharmacists from civil and criminal liability when acting in good faith under these provisions, and requires the Louisiana Department of Health to maintain an eligible infection list.
Expands legal immunity for healthcare providers and pharmacists while broadening the types of sexually transmitted infections for which patients can receive partner medication without an in-person clinical exam.
- Expedited partner therapy is a public health strategy that allows treating the sexual partners of patients diagnosed with certain sexually transmitted infections without requiring an in-person medical evaluation for the partner. 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.
Licensed physicians, advanced practice registered nurses, and physician assistants
Practitioners are authorized to prescribe antibiotics to sexual partners without an examination and receive statutory liability protections.
Pharmacists
Pharmacists who dispense drugs in accordance with the section are shielded from civil or criminal liability and unprofessional conduct charges.
Patients and sexual partners
Sexual partners can receive antibiotic treatment for additional infections without needing an independent clinical examination.
Key Facts
- Expands expedited partner therapy eligibility to include trichomoniasis and other infections determined by the Louisiana Department of Health.
- Authorizes licensed physicians, advanced practice registered nurses, and physician assistants to provide antibiotic drugs to a patient's sexual partner without an examination of that partner.
- Requires patients choosing expedited partner therapy to receive a written document to give to their sexual contact.
- Grants civil and criminal immunity and protects against unprofessional conduct claims for physicians, advanced practice registered nurses, physician assistants, and pharmacists acting in good faith under this section.
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- Directs the Louisiana Department of Health to create a list of eligible sexually associated infections for expedited partner therapy.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Current status: Signed into law.
Procedural history
20 actions- May 29, 2026HouseEnrolledSigned by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 567.
- May 29, 2026HouseEffective date: 08/01/2026.
- May 26, 2026HouseSent to the Governor for executive approval.
- May 25, 2026HouseReceived from the Senate without amendments.
- May 25, 2026HouseEnrolledEnrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- May 25, 2026SenateEnrolledSigned by the President of the Senate.
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- May 21, 2026SenateFloorRules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
- May 18, 2026SenateFloorReported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- May 14, 2026SenateIntroducedRead by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- May 13, 2026SenateCommitteeReported favorably.
- Mar 30, 2026SenateCommitteeRead second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.
- Mar 25, 2026HouseFloorRead third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
- Mar 25, 2026SenateReceived in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- Mar 23, 2026HouseFloorRead by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- Mar 23, 2026HouseScheduled for floor debate on 03/25/2026.
- Mar 18, 2026HouseReported with amendments (11-0).
- 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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Broadening of Public Health Treatment Protocols
The state is expanding the scope of expedited partner therapy beyond bacterial infections like chlamydia and gonorrhea to include parasitic infections such as trichomoniasis.
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- Controversy15Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
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