HB 263 Louisiana House · 2025 Regular Session

ELDERLY: Provides relative to disclosure of financial records available to the governor's office of elderly affairs

This bill (HB 263) requires the governor's Office of Elderly Affairs to disclose certain financial records. However, the provided context does not specify what types of financial records are covered, who would be directly affected by this disclosure, or the key mechanisms for how the disclosure would operate. Without details on the records' purpose, scope, or intended recipients, the bill's concrete policy changes cannot be summarized. The context only includes procedural language about the bill's effective date and recent legislative actions, not its substantive content.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Apr 2025
Committee Review
May 2025
House Passage
Jun 2025
Senate Passage
May 2025
Signed into Law
Jun 2025
Introduced Apr 1, 2025 Signed Jun 8, 2025
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What changed between versions

HB263 Original HB263 Act · 3 edits
MINOR
This bill enacts a new provision allowing the Office of Elderly Affairs to request financial records from banks to investigate financial exploitation of elderly adults. It clarifies that banks are authorized to disclose these records when the office certifies they are necessary for performing duties under the Adult Protective Services Act. The bill also removes a previous requirement for the Adult Protection Agency to access these records, shifting the specific authority to the new Office of Elderly Affairs provision.
Scope change
The bill shifts the specific statutory authority for accessing bank records from the Adult Protection Agency to the Office of Elderly Affairs, while maintaining the same underlying purpose of preventing financial abuse.
REQUIREMENT

Added a new statute (R.S. 6:333(F)(19)) explicitly authorizing banks to disclose financial records to the Office of Elderly Affairs upon a written request certifying necessity for Adult Protective Services duties.

Removed the previous statute (R.S. 15:1507(H)(1)) that granted the Adult Protection Agency access to financial records, as the authority is now codified in the new section for the Office of Elderly Affairs.

SCOPE

Changed the specific agency authorized to request financial records from the Adult Protection Agency to the Office of Elderly Affairs within the Governor's office.

Floor votes · Senate May 28, 2025 · House May 6, 2025

How they voted

342
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 37
May 28, 2025
D Democratic11
11 Yea
100% Yea
R Republican26
23 Yea 2 Nay 1
88% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
21
Key actions
5
Committee
5
Jun 3, 2025
Lower · Passed
Read by title, roll called, yeas 100, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
lower
May 28, 2025
Upper · Passed
The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 2 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 19, 2025
Committee
Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 14, 2025
Upper · Passed
Reported with amendments.
upper
May 6, 2025
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 4. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Apr 28, 2025
Lower · Passed
Reported with amendments (15-0).
lower
Apr 14, 2025
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce.
lower
Apr 1, 2025
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce.
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
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Photo of Paula Davis
Paula Davis
RRepublican
LA
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