Braving Freedom Legislative Update🇺🇸
An overview of the week and where each bill stands as of 5/2/24.
Let’s start with the wins! Thankfully, there were many!
Rep Chuck Owen’s HB975, the Don Scoggins Law, is intended to provide better protections for those hospitalized or in long-term care situations so the individual will always have access to a designated caregiver and never again simply left alone.
HB976 has passed the House unopposed and makes its way to the Senate Health and Welfare committee in the coming weeks. Send a statement of support to the committee for HB976 now!
HB908 by Rep Beryl Amedee prohibits schools from discriminating against students who submit an exemption instead of providing their immunization information to schools. Covid brought to the fore the many biases society has against people who choose not to vaccinate. We were made aware of unbelievable instances of discrimination including one school principal who made seating charts based on the vaccination status of students. This bill passed House Education with a vote of 7-3, and the House floor with a vote of 66-36.
HB908 will be heard in Senate Education Committee in the coming weeks! Please send a statement of support for HB908 today!
HB815 by Rep Beth Billings is a fantastic piece of legislation that requires the Louisiana Department of Health to follow FDA regulations when advertising or promoting pharmaceuticals, including vaccines. The bill passed the House unopposed!
HB815 will be heard in Senate Health and Welfare in the coming weeks — send a statement of support to the committee today!
Rep Kim Coates has had tremendous success in the House with the raw milk bill HB467, Taste the Liberty! Watch the video below of the House floor vote from Wednesday, May 1st— and turn up the volume!🐮
With a vote of 94-0, HB467 passed the House with 24 co-authors! The next stop is a hearing before the Senate Ag Committee in the coming weeks. Send a statement of support for HB467 to the Senate Ag committee now!
World Health Organization?!? Not in Louisiana!
Sen Thomas Pressly’s SB133, the WHO bill, passed out of House Civil Law Committee on Tuesday, April 30th, with a vote of 8-2 and will be heard on the House floor soon! Incredibly, one republican state rep, Jessica Domangue, stated she had never heard of the controversy surrounding the World Health Organization and the impending vote on the WHO treaty and IHR amendments.
In case you missed it, all U.S. Senate Republicans sent a signed statement to the Biden administration on May 1, 2024, regarding the World Health Organization and the coming vote on the treaty and IHR amendments, noting the complete failure of the WHO response during COVID and the failure of the WHO to provide a final text of the proposed language four months prior to the vote as is required. As stated in the letter:
“The WHO's most recent publicly available draft of its new pandemic response treaty is dead on arrival.”
Will the Biden administration do the right thing and withdraw U.S. support from the WHO? Not likely. Send a message to your state representative and ask them to vote YES on SB133 by Sen Thomas Pressly!
Senator Alan Seabaugh's SB357 will amend a section of the state's Emergency Powers Act to add clarification on who may terminate a declared emergency and that all or part of a declared emergency may be terminated. In the video above, Sen Blake Miguez speaks on behalf of the proposed legislation during the Senate floor debate on Tuesday, April 30th, when the bill passed the Senate with a vote of 27-10.
Recall that in 2020, Sen Seabaugh, then a state representative, attempted to terminate Edwards' declared emergency by utilizing the statute he is attempting to amend with SB357. Edwards sued the legislature, which held up the procedure as it made its way through the courts. This bill provides much needed clarification so that the governor's authority during a declared public emergency is rightfully held in check.
Sen Seabaugh will present this bill to the House and Governmental Affairs Committee in the coming weeks. We ask that you send a statement of support to the committee now!
Now for the bad news. . .
For the time being, we’ll provide a short video clip of Rep Amedee’s incredible closing remarks (above) on HB866, a bill that would have provided a Right to Refuse a medical procedure Authorized for Emergency Use (EUA) or declared a countermeasure under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act. Sadly, HB866 failed to pass with a vote of 38 - 58. The failure of this bill to pass and its implications demands a much longer article which will follow. Just know that this will not be the last time you see this legislation. The federal government was weaponized against American citizens during covid and much of it was due to the mandates of drugs and interventions classified as EUA under the PREP Act.
As we have noted in previous article, because EUAs are experimental medical interventions, in the truest sense of the word, federal law states recipients must be made aware of the right to refuse the interventions. Rep Amedee’s legislation simply codified this right in state law.
This is a devastating blow by the legislature and a clear failure to protect Louisiana citizens from possible future harm.
Next week. . .
. . . all bills will be crossing over to the opposite chamber for committee hearings. We believe Rep Edmonston’s HB47 may be in Senate Education on Wednesday, May 8th. We would love to see you all there for that hearing to submit green cards in support of HB47 but with the removal of the Domangue amendment. We will let you know asap if it will be happening that day!
If you haven’t yet, send a statement to the Senate Ed Committee asking them to remove the Domangue amendment!
The legislative session is underway once again!! We could really use your help filling up our gas tanks as we make the treck to Baton Rouge to fight for your health freedom!
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