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Read. Follow. Verify.Louisiana House Bill 925 Expands Audiologists' Authority to Order Tests While Prohibiting Surgical Procedures
Last action · March 9, 2026: Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.Sponsor: Chance Henry
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What This Bill Proposed
Louisiana House Bill 925 permits licensed audiologists to order cultures, blood work, and radiographic imaging specifically related to ear and balance conditions, and to perform in-office non-radiographic testing without a physician referral. Simultaneously, the measure prohibits audiologists from performing surgery, cochlear implant procedures, and , as well as interpreting diagnostic test results.
Audiologists gain the direct authority to order medical tests related to hearing and balance without prior physician authorization, while facing explicit statutory boundaries that restrict them from performing surgical operations or interpreting diagnostic test results.
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.
Audiologists
Audiologists gain explicit authority to order specific diagnostic tests and perform in-office evaluations while becoming subject to statutory prohibitions against performing surgeries and interpreting test results.
Patients
Key Facts
- Removes the requirement for a physician referral when providing audiology services for disorders of the vestibular system.
- Permits audiologists to order cultures and blood work testing solely related to auditory or vestibular conditions in the human ear.
- Allows audiologists to order and perform in-office non-radiographic testing of the external auditory canal for hearing and balance disorder evaluations.
- Authorizes audiologists to order radiographic imaging solely related to auditory or vestibular conditions in the human ear.
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- Prohibits audiologists from performing any surgery using instruments such as a laser, scalpel, needle, cautery, cryoprobe, or suture that permanently alters human tissue.
- Explicitly bars audiologists from performing osseointegrated device surgery and cochlear implant surgery.
- Prohibits audiologists from preparing, operating, or performing radiographic imaging, and from using or interpreting cultures, blood work, or radiographic imaging to diagnose or treat patients.
Frequently Asked Questions
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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, 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.
Version history
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 45)
- Controversy15Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz10Current news / social attention level
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