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Read. Follow. Verify.Louisiana doubles civil fines for healthcare facility safety violations and mandates annual enforcement reports
Last action · March 9, 2026: Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.Sponsor: Wilford Carter
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What This Bill Proposed
Louisiana House Bill 554 doubles the maximum across all four classes of violations for healthcare facilities and penalizes each day a facility delays reporting abuse, neglect, serious injury, or death. The measure also requires the Louisiana Department of Health to publish and submit an annual enforcement report every November 1st beginning in 2026.
Healthcare facilities face significantly higher financial penalties for regulatory infractions, while state health regulators assume a mandatory annual reporting duty detailing facility deficiencies, collected fines, and repeat violations.
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
healthcare facilities
Subject to doubled maximum civil monetary penalties for operating violations and new daily fines for delayed reporting of abuse or neglect.
Louisiana Department of Health
Required to compile, publish, and submit an annual report of facility penalties, repeat violations, and multiple deficiencies to the legislative library.
Key Facts
- Class A violations resulting in death or serious harm now carry a maximum first-time fine of $5,000 and up to $10,000 per day for repeat violations.
- Class B violations creating a substantial probability of death or serious physical or mental harm now carry a maximum first-time fine of $3,000 and up to $6,000 per day for repeat violations.
- Class C violations creating a potential for harm by threatening health, safety, rights, or welfare now carry a maximum first-time fine of $2,000 and up to $4,000 per day for repeat violations.
- Class D administrative and reporting violations now carry a maximum first-time fine of $200 and up to $500 per day for repeat violations.
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- Facilities failing to report abuse, neglect, serious injury, or death in a timely manner may be assessed a separate penalty for each day delayed.
- The Louisiana Department of Health must publish and submit a report on November first of each year detailing penalties assessed, penalties collected, repeat violations, and facilities with three or more deficiencies within a twelve-month period.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · in House committee.
Procedural history
4 actions- Mar 9, 2026HouseIntroducedRead by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.
- Feb 27, 2026HouseFirst appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.
- Feb 26, 2026HousePrefiled.
- Feb 26, 2026HouseCommitteeUnder the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.
Version history
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 55)
- Controversy25Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz15Current news / social attention level
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