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HB560 • 2026

HOSPITALS: Provides relative to hospital service districts

HOSPITALS: Provides relative to hospital service districts

Healthcare
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Bryan Fontenot
Last action
2026-03-09
Official status
Pending House Health and Welfare
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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HOSPITALS: Provides relative to hospital service districts

HOSPITALS: Provides relative to hospital service districts

What This Bill Does

  • HOSPITALS: Provides relative to hospital service districts

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-03-09 H

    Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.

  2. 2026-02-27 H

    First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.

  3. 2026-02-26 H

    Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.

  4. 2026-02-26 H

    Prefiled.

Official Summary Text

HOSPITALS: Provides relative to hospital service districts

Current Bill Text

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HLS 26RS-1285 ORIGINAL
2026 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 560
BY REPRESENTATIVE FONTENOT
HOSPITALS: Provides relative to hospital service districts
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 46:1052(introductory paragraph) and (5), relative to hospital
3 service districts; to provide for the objectives of the districts; and to provide for
4 related matters.
5 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
6 Section 1. R.S. 46:1052(5) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
7 §1052. Objects Objectives of the districts
8 The objects objectives and purposes of the hospital service districts and the
9 governing bodies created pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter shall be all of the
10 following:
11 * * *
12 (5) To cooperate with other public and private institutions, healthcare
13 facilities, and agencies engaged in providing hospital and other health services to
14 residents of the district.
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 560 Original 2026 Regular Session Fontenot
Abstract: Provides for the objectives and purpose of hospital service districts.
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CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored
are additions.
HLS 26RS-1285 ORIGINAL
HB NO. 560
Present law authorizes the police juries of parishes to form and create one or more hospital
service districts within the respective parishes.
Present law provides for the objects and purposes of the hospital service districts and their
governing bodies, including cooperating with other public and private institutions and
agencies engaged in providing hospital and other health services to residents of the district.
Proposed law adds cooperating with healthcare facilities that are engaged in providing
hospital and other health services to the residents of the district as an objective and purpose
of the district.
(Amends R.S. 46:1052(intro. para.) and (5))
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CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored
are additions.