Health Freedom Louisiana Legislative Roundup
A look at our favorites and THE biggest loser.
The next legislative session is upon us! The Louisiana Legislature will be gaveled into session at noon on Monday, April 10, 2023.
With the start of the session comes the end of donations to members of the legislature. Please take this opportunity to say thank you to these amazing legislators for carrying this much needed legislation with a donation to their re-election campaigns by noon on Monday, April 10th. Donation links can be found below.
The following is a list of our favorite health freedom bills all in one place for you.
This bill should not be necessary.
No patient should ever be forced to seek care alone, be hospitalized without access to family, be forced to give birth alone, to suffer alone, to grow old alone, or to die alone.
Lack of access to our loved ones while hospitalized or in long term care has affected us all over the last three years. The stories are heartbreaking and tragic. HB291 ensures that no patient, long term care resident, or hospice patient will be separated from family, loved ones, or clergy.
If you want to be made aware when this legislation will be heard in committee, please email info@healthfreedomla.org. Please come and support this bill with your presence and/or your testimony.
Many, many thanks to Representative Chuck Owen for agreeing so readily to carry this legislation and for his patience as it was perfected.
Excerpt from HB291:
“The facility shall allow in-person visitation by the designated essential caregiver daily in addition to any other visitation authorized by the facility.”
We LOVE this proposed constitutional amendment, HB152, by Representative Beryl Amedée:
Ҥ28. Parental Rights
Section 28. The freedom of a parent in the nurture, education, care, custody, and control of the parent's child is a fundamental right and shall not be infringed. Any restriction on this right shall be subject to strict scrutiny.”
Again, this legislation should not be necessary, but the last three years have shown us that elected officials and government employees have no qualms violating the sacred responsibility of the parent to govern their children in regards to medical and preventive healthcare. Forced masking, social distancing, and the multitude covid mitigation requirements in schools and cities like New Orleans were not harmless, benign interventions. They were extreme, untested, and unsafe medical interventions and behavior modifications that departed from long standing public health guidelines. This parental rights constitutional amendment is an added safeguard of protection from unscrupulous government actors.
HB158 by Representative Kathy Edmonston, and co-authored by Reps Beryl Amedée, Valarie Hodges, and Danny McCormick, is much needed legislation designed to protect businesses that decide NOT to mandate vaccination against covid or any other pandemic disease for their employees. Historically, business owners have NEVER been burdened with the responsibility of mitigating a respiratory virus. It shouldn’t start now. Make no mistake, if businesses are not responsible for covid mitigation, they will not be pressured to mandate covid vaccination for their employees. This will help employees, as well. This bill, in a similar form, passed the legislature in 2021, but was vetoed by the governor.
This is one way to shut the door on future pandemic madness, protect businesses and their employees, and protect the economy!
Our hope is to add more comprehensive protections for everyone next year when we have, more than likely, a Republican governor, and have added members to the legislature who are more friendly to our cause.
Covid-19 vaccines NEVER fulfilled statutory requirements to be required for school attendance in Louisiana. As we noted in a letter dated October 14, 2021, to former Louisiana Secretary of Health, Dr. Courtney Phillips, R.S. 17:170(A)(1) is specific to diseases that are vaccine-preventable. The clinical trials for the various covid-19 vaccines were not designed to determine if the drugs prevented transmission or infection and yet State Health Officer, Dr. Joseph Kanter, granted approval for requests from approximately 100 schools to require covid vaccination before they were even FDA approved. Today, there are still Louisiana colleges and universities requiring covid vaccination for entry. Even now, when more and more data shows the harm outweighs the benefit, in New Orleans alone, eighty-six schools require covid vaccination for children as young as FIVE.
Representative Kathy Edmonston’s HB182 simply removes the option for any school to require covid vaccination. Parents are free to make the choice without any coercive measures imposed by schools.
In case there’s any doubt, let’s make it official: the CDC and the WHO are not welcome in Louisiana. HB372 states:
§20. Jurisdiction of certain federal and international organizations
To the full extent permitted by state law, the Constitution of Louisiana, and the Constitution of the United States, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization shall have no jurisdiction in this state. Any requirements, mandates, recommendations, instructions, or guidance provided by either organization shall not be used in this state to justify any mask, vaccine, or medical testing requirements and shall have no force or effect in this state.
Many thanks to Representative Kathy Edmonston and her co-authors Reps Beryl Adams Amedee, Valarie Hodges, Dodie Horton, Danny McCormick & Chuck Owen for this legislation!!
Withholding vaccine exemption information is an egregious act of medical coercion, yet schools do it all the time.
HB399 by Representative Kathy Edmonston will ensure that with any communication about vaccine requirements, the exemption law will be provided to students and parents, as well.
As it should be.
Coercion is not consent.
Many thanks to Representative Kathy Edmonston - she is a true champion of health freedom!!
Representative Beryl Amedee knows Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) is a huge concern, so she took action! HB415 prohibits a central bank digital currency “deposit account” in Louisiana. Let’s make sure cash is king in Louisiana and prevent the inevitable decline of freedom if banks have control of our money. Many thanks to Rep Amedee for listening to the concerns of her constituents!
We wholeheartedly support Representative Gabe Firment in his efforts to protect children from the incredibly harmful and deceptive “gender affirming care.”
Below is a helpful guide on HB463 from Partners for Ethical Care:
HB463, also called The Save Adolescents From Experimentation Act, protects vulnerable children from the unethical and ideologically driven treatment of “gender affirming care” in Louisiana and will prohibit the use of “medical procedures that alter a minor's hormonal balance, remove a minor's sex organs, or otherwise change a minor's physical appearance” when performed for the purpose of enabling a minor to live as a purported identity inconsistent with the minor’s sex.
HFL recognizes the predatory nature of the pharmaceutical industry and that these procedures and treatments, once started, never end and create patients for life. This legislation will force this industry to “Leave the Kids Alone.”
Please support these amazing legislators by donating to their re-election campaigns before the deadline at NOON on Monday, April 10th. They cannot accept donations during the legislative session. Click on the names below to go to their donation links:
State Rep. Chuck Owen Rosepine, District 30
State Rep. Beryl Amedee Houma, District 51
State Rep. Kathy Edmonston Gonzales, District 88
State Rep. Valarie Hodges Denham Springs, District 64
State Rep. Dodie Horton Haughton, District 9
State Rep. Danny McCormick Oil City, District 1
State Rep. Gabe Firment Pollack, District 22, does not have digital donation.
And now for THE biggest loser: HB471
For the last few years, the pharmacy board has found a water carrier for this bill - this year it is Representative Barbara Freiberg. They say vaccines are a “loss leader.” If so, why does this industry want to vaccinate children at the corner drug store instead of under the care of a physician with appropriate medical care available, if needed? MONEY.
We’ll say it again: Leave the Kids Alone.
Once again, we oppose this legislation, HB471.
It is so important to stay connected to Health Freedom Louisiana on our favorite social media sites during the legislative session: Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. We’ll put out Call to Actions as these bills head to committee but let your legislators know that you support health freedom! Don’t know who your legislators are? Find them HERE.
In other exciting news: Do not miss Louisiana Health Freedom Day!
Thanks for all y’all do!