New Legislative Session, Same Mission: Health Freedom 🇺🇸
The legislative session begins Monday, April 14th. Here's the heat sheet for the 2025 legislative session!
Friends, the next legislative session begins on MONDAY! These are the health freedom bills you need to know about. We want to thank Louisiana’s MAHA CAUCAS — our trusted legislators — for their continued advocacy for health freedom! (Look for more on these caucus members!)
This session’s flagship health freedom legislation is HB555 by Rep Beryl Amedée and Rep Danny McCormick - the Louisiana Medical Freedom Act. This groundbreaking legislation protects employees and business owners by prohibiting the option to mandate medical interventions.
As the bill states: “. . . society is harmed by discrimination based on medical mandates . . . when healthy persons are prevented from participating in society and accessing employment opportunities. The legislature also finds that remedies to prevent such discrimination are in the best interest of this state.”
Rep Chuck Owen authors HB377, the Right to Refuse Emergency Use Authorization Drugs Act. Louisianans were denied informed consent when offered Emergency Use Authorized drugs during covid, specifically the right to refuse these drugs. This legislation guarantees that patients are fully informed, including disclosure that the product is authorized under Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) and all known benefits and risks. It also prohibits any form of coercion or discrimination based on an individual’s decision to refuse.
“The purpose . . . is to ensure that individuals are fully informed of their right to refuse a medical device, test, pharmaceutical, drug, vaccine, or biological product that is authorized by the United States Food and Drug Administration through the Emergency Use Authorization process and to provide procedures for obtaining informed consent before any medical device, test, pharmaceutical, drug, vaccine, or biological product with an emergency use authorization is administered.”
Rep Jay Gallé’s HB629, the Medical Freedom and Informed Consent Act, will ensure that coercion is removed from the medical consent process. An element of coercion in the medical consent process constitutes a human rights violation.
“The purpose of this Act is to affirm the right that individuals have to voluntary, informed consent for all medical interventions and establish protections against coercion, discrimination, and violation of this right.”
We are so thankful to Senators Mike Fesi and Patrick McMath for authoring legislation to prohibit state and local municipalities from fluoridating public water systems. SB2 will end decades-long forced medication through public water systems - a human rights violation. While there are studies implicating fluoride in catastrophic harm to our children's mental and physical well-being, the foundational issue is one of informed consent. When a drug is forced on a population, consent is absent.
Medical and dental organizations advocating for the continuation of forced fluoridation should be considered suspect in all areas of their practice.
Rep Beryl Amedée is on track to be the first to pass another historic piece of legislation, HB419, which creates the crime of intentionally releasing an engineered, self-spreading pathogen.
Think the concept is a “solution in search of a problem?” Scientists have been developing the technology for years now. A June 2022 article in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist states:
“It’s a development that Scott Nuismer, a biologist and leading figure in self-spreading vaccine research, said “moved us closer to the point where these challenges” in deploying a vaccine can be solved. But self-spreading vaccine technology is inherently risky. Once let loose, the vaccine could recombine with human pathogens. Also, it could help malicious actors create viruses capable of causing pandemics. Despite these risks, self-spreading vaccine research appears to be moving forward.”
Rep. Amedée’s legislation acts as a critical barrier against the introduction of this risky technology in Louisiana.
HB400, introduced by Rep Emily Chenevert and Rep Dodie Horton, defends the fundamental right of parents to make medical decisions for their children. Current law has a disturbing loophole that allows predatory practices in healthcare. We are thankful for the efforts to get this bill introduced and protect Louisiana children by protecting parental informed consent in all healthcare decisions.
Louisiana is sooo ready for “over the counter” ivermectin!! Many thanks to Senator Mike Fesi for carrying SB19 this year! With three other states—Tennessee, Idaho, and Utah—now allowing IVM to be sold over the counter, there is a clear precedent, and we expect less resistance from legislators this session than we saw last year.
Rep Kathy Edmonston introduced HB112 to ensure that physicians can prescribe medications off-label without interference from licensing boards. This legislation is a result of the many instances during covid when pharmacists refused to fill prescriptions due to propoganda from state and federal health agencies and local governing boards.
We’re thrilled to see Senator Patrick McMath introduce comprehensive legislation, SB14, to ensure that Louisiana children have access to food free from harmful chemicals and dyes. When considering the chronic disease epidemic our country faces, removing these questionable ingredients—that no other country allows—is a great start!
Senator Blake Miguez has introduced SB117, aimed at ensuring that Louisiana school lunches are free from harmful chemicals and dyes, as well as minimally processed. We love seeing our tax dollars being spent in a responsible way to influence change on the plates and lives of our most treasured resource, our children.
Beyond medical mandates, one of the most frequent concerns we hear from our members is the spraying of chemicals into the atmosphere and its impact on both human health and the environment. We are so thankful to see that concern reflected in legislation introduced by Rep Kim Coates and Senator Valarie Hodges. HB608 will prohibit this practice from continuing in Louisiana and protect Louisiana’s atmosphere.
In the same vein, SB46 by Senator Mike Fesi prohibits the practice of introducing chemicals into the atmosphere to affect temperature, weather, climate, or intensity of sunlight. As climate cultists like Bill Gates, who owns more land in Louisiana than any other state, have announced intentions to “hack the atmosphere” despite the “moral hazard,” legislation of this sort is timely and indicative of local support.
After her phenomenal success last year in legalizing the sale of raw milk, Rep Kim Coates continues her quest for food freedom by introducing the Louisiana Food Freedom Act, which empowers local food producers in the cottage food industry.
By expanding opportunities for small-scale producers, the Louisiana Food Freedom Act strengthens local economies, promotes self-sufficiency, and increases access to wholesome, locally made food. Rep Coates’ continued leadership reflects a growing movement in Louisiana to restore common-sense food policy, rooted in individual choice, transparency, and economic empowerment.
We are thankful that Rep Raymond Crews has once again introduced common-sense legislation to back currency with gold with HB386.
Why is gold-backed currency a health freedom issue?
When individuals have control over how they store and spend their money, they are less vulnerable to coercive systems that link financial access to medical compliance (e.g., mandates tied to digital IDs, insurance, or employment).
Gold and other decentralized currencies offer a hedge against centralized financial systems that could enforce health-based restrictions, such as refusing services or benefits based on vaccination status or medical choices.
Centralized financial systems are increasingly integrated with digital tracking, social credit-style systems, and public health enforcement mechanisms.
Just like food freedom and health freedom, monetary freedom gives people an alternative system to opt into—a way to function outside of structures that might punish dissent.
Finally, we support HB454, introduced by Rep Dustin Miller, to add doula services to Medicaid coverage. We are happy to see an expansion of services that will positively impact the lives of pregnant mamas across the state. Doulas provide consistent, one-on-one support in settings where hospital staff often rotate, offering emotional, physical, and informational care while respecting and advocating for each woman’s birth plan and personal preferences throughout pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum recovery.
We believe this important step will contribute meaningfully to addressing Louisiana’s deeply concerning maternal and infant mortality crisis.
In addition to this list, we oppose two pieces of legislation, HB486 by Rep Adrian Fisher and SB121 by Senator Larry Selders, both intended to provide mental health counseling at schools.
Mental health counseling is not an endeavor that should take place outside the parental purview. While both bills require prior parental consent, the counselor is not of the parent’s choosing, and the counseling sessions take place without the parents present. It advances the concerning trend of shifting parental responsibilities onto schools, undermining their true role as places of learning.
Edited to add HB408 by Rep Kellee Dickerson.
HB408 by Rep. Kellee Dickerson will require insurance companies to cover treatment of PANS/PANDAS.
PANS (Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome) and PANDAS (Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections) are serious medical conditions where an infection or immune dysfunction triggers sudden, severe psychiatric symptoms in children — including anxiety, OCD, tics, and cognitive decline. Early and aggressive treatment, including antibiotics, immunotherapy, and supportive therapies, can dramatically improve outcomes. Yet many insurance companies refuse to cover these necessary treatments, leaving families to shoulder crushing medical bills or forcing children to go without care. Ensuring insurance coverage for PANS/PANDAS treatment is critical to protecting children’s health, restoring their futures, and lifting an unjust burden off families.
Children are suffering. Families are going broke. Recovery is possible — but only if treatment is accessible.
This critical legislation will help families recover from this devastating illness.
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