SB 70 Louisiana Senate · 2025 Regular Session

HEALTH SERVICES: Provides relative to remote patient monitoring services. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

SB 70 amends a definition related to remote patient monitoring services for healthcare coverage. It specifically clarifies that an "infant" eligible for these services includes a child discharged after requiring neonatal intensive care. The bill makes minor technical corrections to the bill text (removing a reference to "woman" and adding the infant definition). This is a procedural amendment affecting the bill's language, not a new policy change. The bill does not alter coverage rules or funding but ensures the definition aligns with healthcare needs.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Apr 2025
Committee Review
May 2025
Senate Passage
May 2025
House Passage
Jun 2025
Signed into Law
Jun 2025
Introduced Apr 2, 2025 Signed Jun 11, 2025
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What changed between versions

SB70 Original SB70 Act · 3 edits
MINOR
This bill updates the list of patients eligible for remote patient monitoring services under Louisiana law. It removes the specific requirement that pregnant or postpartum women must have a diagnosed pregnancy-related condition to qualify, allowing all pregnant or postpartum women to be eligible. It also broadens the definition of infants requiring neonatal intensive care to include those discharged after needing such care, rather than only those currently requiring specific invasive treatments like tracheostomy tubes.
Scope change
The bill expands eligibility for remote patient monitoring services by simplifying criteria for pregnant and postpartum women and broadening the definition of infants who qualify based on their hospital history.
ELIGIBILITY

Removed the requirement for pregnant or postpartum women to be diagnosed with specific pregnancy-related conditions (like preeclampsia or gestational diabetes) to qualify for remote monitoring.

Changed the criteria for infants from requiring current invasive care (tracheostomy or nasogastric tubes) to simply having been discharged from the hospital after needing neonatal intensive care.

TECHNICAL

Updated the bill header to reflect that it is now an enrolled act with additional sponsors and changed the page count from 3 to 2.

Floor votes · Senate May 7, 2025 · House Jun 3, 2025

How they voted

340
Passed · 3 other
Total votes 37
May 7, 2025
D Democratic11
9 Yea 2
81% Yea
R Republican26
25 Yea 1
96% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
21
Key actions
6
Committee
8
Jun 3, 2025
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.
lower
May 29, 2025
Lower · Passed
Discharged from the Committee on Appropriations.
lower
May 21, 2025
Committee
Read by title, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
lower
May 20, 2025
Lower · Passed
Reported favorably (12-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
lower
May 8, 2025
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.
lower
May 7, 2025
Upper · Passed
Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 6, 2025
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
upper
Apr 28, 2025
Committee
Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted; ordered engrossed and recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
upper
Apr 23, 2025
Upper · Passed
Reported with amendments.
upper
Apr 14, 2025
Committee
Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.
upper
1 primary · 11 co-sponsors

Sponsors