Senator • Democrat

Joseph Bouie

Louisiana • District SD-003

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Bills Sponsored

Aggregate Impact (Sponsored Bills):

90% Positive

Voting Pattern

Nay: 167

Other: 125

Yea: 2105

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Joseph Bouie

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Provides relative to the issuance of bonds for financing certain capital improvement projects within the Louisiana Community and Technical College System. (2/3-CA7s6(A))(7/1/25) (RE SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)

Provides relative to diabetes information. (8/1/25) (EG NO IMPACT See Note)

Provide for penalties for certain traffic offenses. (8/1/25) (EG SEE FISC NOTE LF RV)

Provides relative to Louisiana Economic Development. (8/1/25) (OR SEE FISC NOTE SD EX)

Excludes certain amounts deposited into ABLE accounts for qualified expenses of persons with disabilities from state income tax. (8/1/25) (EG DECREASE GF RV See Note)

Establishes the Retail Service Worker Health and Safety Act. (8/1/25) (OR INCREASE GF EX See Note)

Requires the board of commissioners of the Port of New Orleans to be confirmed by the Senate. (2/3-CA6s43(3))(8/1/25)

Provides relative to the Gentilly Development District in Orleans Parish

Requires school systems to provide a salary increase for teachers and other school employees using savings attributable to the state's payment of certain unfunded accrued liability of the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana (Item #2) (EN GF EX See Note)

Provides relative to billing for services by the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board

Prohibits social media companies from collecting data to use for targeted advertising to minors

Requires in-service training for school nurses on caring for students with sickle cell disease (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

Creates the "Mystic Krewe of Femme Fatale" specialty license plate

Designates a portion of Highway 175 in Mansfield, Louisiana, in DeSoto Parish as the "Jerius Marshall Highway" and a portion of Highway 133 in Start, Louisiana, in Richland Parish as the "Luke Letlow Memorial Highway"

Creates the Grambling State University World Famed Tiger Marching Band specialty license plate

Creates the Southeast Louisiana Port Authority Advisory Commission. (8/1/23) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)

Provides relative to required accelerated instruction for certain students. (8/1/23) (EN INCREASE FF EX See Note)

Authorizes the division of administration to waive local match requirements for certain non-state entity projects. (gov sig) (EN DECREASE LF EX See Note)

Creates the Office of the State Child Ombudsman and the state child ombudsman. (8/1/23) (EN +$293,877 GF EX See Note)

Provides for patient's right to prompt coverage. (8/1/23) (EN INCREASE SG EX See Note)

Exempts certain research and development tax credit recipients from detailed examinations by the Department of Economic Development (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)

Provides relative to the issuance of revenue bonds on behalf of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections. (gov sig) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

Creates the Louisiana Cybersecurity Commission. (8/1/23) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

Provides relative to maternity support services of doulas (EN INCREASE SG EX See Note)

Adds Financial Literacy as a required course for high school students (EN INCREASE LF EX See Note)

Requires an automated external defibrillator on the premises of all educational institutions and at sponsored athletic events. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE LF EX See Note)

Exempts certain persons who sell trolling motors from licensing requirements. (8/1/23) (EN -$26,225 SG RV See Note)

Provides for benefit increases for retirees, beneficiaries, and survivors of state retirement systems and the funding therefor. (2/3-CA10s(29)(F)) (gov sig) (EN INCREASE FC SG RE)

Provides relative to Louisiana veterans cemeteries

Authorizes the University of Louisiana System to establish tuition and fees for a Doctor of Physical Therapy program at the University of Louisiana at Monroe (EN +$576,000 SG RV See Note)

Names the DOTD headquarters building in Baton Rouge in honor of Governor P.B.S. Pinchback. (8/1/23) (EN INCREASE SD EX See Note)

Provides relative to educational benefits for children, spouses, and surviving spouses of certain veterans. (gov sig) (EN DECREASE SG RV See Note)

Creates Ezekiel's Law and provides relative to protecting children from abuse. (8/1/23) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

Makes supplemental appropriations for Fiscal Year 2022-2023

Provides relative to learning pods. (gov sig) (EG NO IMPACT See Note)

Provides for minimum live horse racing dates. (8/1/23)

Requires that any contractor who enters into a contract with a public entity comply with the Louisiana Equal Pay for Women Act. (8/1/23) (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

Provides relative to certain schools returned from the Recovery School District. (gov sig)

Requires instruction on mental health to be provided for students in grades kindergarten through twelve

Provides relative to fentanyl and carfentanil. (8/1/22) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

Provides relative to power-based violence at public postsecondary institutions. (gov sig)

Provides for the Postsecondary Inclusive Education Fund for funding programs for students with intellectual disabilities. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)

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