HEALTH CARE: Transfers powers and duties of the Nursing Supply and Demand Council and the Simulation Medical Training and Education Council to the Louisiana Health Works Commission
HB 544 transfers the responsibilities of two existing health care councils - the Nursing Supply and Demand Council and the Simulation Medical Training and Education Council - to the Louisiana Health Works Commission. This means the new commission will now handle tasks like analyzing nursing workforce needs and overseeing medical simulation training programs that were previously managed by the separate councils. The bill does not create new health care policies but reorganizes administrative oversight within the state’s health care governance structure. The transfer affects the councils’ staff and duties, shifting them to the Health Works Commission, which is appointed by the LSU System president. This is a procedural reorganization, not a substantive change to health care services or funding.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Apr 2025
Committee Review
Jun 2025
House Passage
Apr 2025
Senate Passage
May 2025
Signed into Law
Jun 2025
Introduced Apr 4, 2025
Signed Jun 20, 2025
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MODERATE
This bill transfers the powers and duties of two existing councils - the Nursing Supply and Demand Council and the Simulation Medical Training and Education Council - to a new entity called the Louisiana Health Works Commission. The change centralizes health care workforce planning under one commission while abolishing the previous councils to streamline state oversight.
Scope change
The bill expands the scope of the Louisiana Health Works Commission by absorbing the functions of two separate councils, thereby consolidating health workforce development activities under a single governing body.
REQUIREMENT
Abolished the Nursing Supply and Demand Council and the Simulation Medical Training and Education Council, ending their independent operations.
Created the Louisiana Health Works Commission to assume all duties previously held by the abolished councils.
Updated the membership composition of the commission to reflect the integration of the two former councils, including specific seats for representatives from medical schools and health organizations.
Revised the executive committee structure to include the chair of the Nursing Supply and Demand Committee as the vice chair of the new commission.
Established a new Simulation Medical Training and Education Committee within the commission to continue oversight of simulation training programs.
Repealed the specific statutes that governed the abolished councils and related health workforce provisions.
Floor votes · Senate May 27, 2025 · House Apr 29, 2025
How they voted
35–0
Passed · 2 other
Total votes 37
May 27, 2025
D
Democratic11
100% Yea
R
Republican26
92% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
36
Key actions
13
Committee
13
Jun 11, 2025
Lower · Passed
Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
lower
Jun 11, 2025
Upper · Passed
Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays.
upper
Jun 11, 2025
Upper · Passed
Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
upper
Jun 11, 2025
Lower · Passed
Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 85, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
lower
Jun 10, 2025
Upper · Passed
Conference committee report received.
upper
Jun 10, 2025
Lower · Passed
Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules.
lower
Jun 9, 2025
Upper · Passed
Senate conference committee members appointed: McMath, Mizell, and Owen.
upper
May 29, 2025
Upper · Passed
Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
upper
May 27, 2025
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 27, 2025
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 19, 2025
Committee
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 14, 2025
Upper · Passed
Reported favorably.
upper
Apr 29, 2025
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Apr 23, 2025
Lower · Passed
Reported with amendments (10-0).
lower
Apr 14, 2025
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.
lower
Apr 4, 2025
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Chris Turner
RRepublican
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