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SCR3 • 2026

HEALTH CARE: Amends rules relative to criminal history background checks on licensed ambulance personnel and nonlicensed persons.

HEALTH CARE: Amends rules relative to criminal history background checks on licensed ambulance personnel and nonlicensed persons.

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Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Brach Myers
Last action
2026-05-26
Official status
Adopted in Senate concurrence
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source does not specify enforcement mechanisms or penalties for noncompliance with the new rules.

Health Care: Changing Background Check Rules for Ambulance Workers

This resolution amends rules to require fingerprint-based background checks when name-based checks show possible arrest information for ambulance workers and nonlicensed personnel.

What This Bill Does

  • Amends the rule that requires licensed ambulance personnel and nonlicensed persons to resubmit to a fingerprint-based background check if their name-based background check contains possible arrest information.
  • Requires employers or authorized agencies to pay a fee of $26 and an additional technology fee of $5 for each criminal history check requested from the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Information.
  • Specifies that results of criminal history checks done by authorized agencies on behalf of employers must be reported back to those agencies.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Licensed ambulance personnel
  • Nonlicensed persons who work with ambulances

Terms To Know

Authorized agency
An organization that is allowed by law to request and receive criminal history information on behalf of an employer.
Fingerprint-based background check
A type of background check where fingerprints are used to verify a person's identity and their criminal history.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The resolution does not specify what happens if an authorized agency fails to provide proof that it can request criminal history information on behalf of an employer.
  • It is unclear how the changes will be enforced or monitored after October 1, 2026.

Amendments

These notes stay tied to the official amendment files and metadata from the legislature.

Filed

Plain English: The amendment removes a provision that allowed parish and local law enforcement agencies to perform criminal history background checks on ambulance personnel until October 1, 2026.

  • Removes the authority given to parish and local law enforcement agencies to conduct criminal history background checks for licensed ambulance personnel and nonlicensed persons until October 1, 2026.
  • The amendment text does not provide details on what will replace this removed provision or how background checks will be conducted after the specified date.
Adopted

Plain English: HCASCR3 4274 4359 HOUSE COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Amendments proposed by House Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice to Reengrossed Senate Concurrent Resolution No.

  • HCASCR3 4274 4359 HOUSE COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Amendments proposed by House Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice to Reengrossed Senate Concurrent Resolution No.
  • 3 by Senator Myers 1 AMENDMENT NO.
  • 1 2 On page 2, delete lines 21 through 23 in their entirety Page 1 of 1 CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored are additions.
Draft

Plain English: HCASCR3 4274 4324 HOUSE COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Amendments proposed by House Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice to Reengrossed Senate Concurrent Resolution No.

  • HCASCR3 4274 4324 HOUSE COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Amendments proposed by House Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice to Reengrossed Senate Concurrent Resolution No.
  • 3 by Senator Myers 1 AMENDMENT NO.
  • 1 2 On page 2, delete lines 21 through 23 in their entirety Page 1 of 1 CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored are additions.
Adopted

Plain English: SFASCR3 3005 1841 SENATE FLOOR AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Amendments proposed by Senator Myers to Engrossed Senate Concurrent Resolution No.

  • SFASCR3 3005 1841 SENATE FLOOR AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Amendments proposed by Senator Myers to Engrossed Senate Concurrent Resolution No.
  • 3 by Senator Myers 1 AMENDMENT NO.
  • 1 2 On page 1, line 2, change "LAC 55:I.207(D)" to "LAC 55:I.207" 3 AMENDMENT NO.
  • 2 4 On page 1, line 5, change "repeal" to "amendments" 5 AMENDMENT NO.
Adopted

Plain English: SCASCR3 3005 1615 SENATE COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Amendments proposed by Senate Committee on Health and Welfare to Original Senate Concurrent Resolution No.

  • SCASCR3 3005 1615 SENATE COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Amendments proposed by Senate Committee on Health and Welfare to Original Senate Concurrent Resolution No.
  • 3 by Senator Myers 1 AMENDMENT NO.
  • 1 2 On page 1, line 2, change "repeal" to "amend" 3 AMENDMENT NO.
  • 2 4 On page 1, delete lines 11 through 14 5 AMENDMENT NO.
Draft

Plain English: SCASCR3 3005 1527 SENATE COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Amendments proposed by Senate Committee on Health and Welfare to Original Senate Concurrent Resolution No.

  • SCASCR3 3005 1527 SENATE COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Amendments proposed by Senate Committee on Health and Welfare to Original Senate Concurrent Resolution No.
  • 3 by Senator Myers 1 AMENDMENT NO.
  • 1 2 On page 1, line 2, change "repeal" to "amend" 3 AMENDMENT NO.
  • 2 4 On page 1, delete lines 11 through 14 5 AMENDMENT NO.

Bill History

  1. 2026-05-26 S

    Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays.

  2. 2026-05-26 S

    Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.

  3. 2026-05-19 S

    Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.

  4. 2026-05-18 S

    Received from the House with amendments.

  5. 2026-05-18 H

    Read by title, concurred in by vote of 95 yeas, 0 nays.

  6. 2026-05-13 H

    Scheduled for floor debate on 05/18/2026.

  7. 2026-05-13 H

    Notice given.

  8. 2026-05-13 H

    Read by title, returned to the calendar.

  9. 2026-05-12 H

    Scheduled for floor debate on 05/13/2026.

  10. 2026-04-27 H

    Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.

  11. 2026-04-23 H

    Reported with amendments (12-0).

  12. 2026-04-14 H

    Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.

  13. 2026-04-13 H

    Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

  14. 2026-04-13 H

    Received in the House from the Senate.

  15. 2026-04-08 S

    Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

  16. 2026-04-07 S

    Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.

  17. 2026-04-01 S

    Reported with amendments.

  18. 2026-03-10 S

    Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.

  19. 2026-03-09 S

    Introduced in the Senate. Read by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

Official Summary Text

HEALTH CARE: Amends rules relative to criminal history background checks on licensed ambulance personnel and nonlicensed persons.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
2026 Regular Session ENROLLED
SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 3
BY SENATOR MYERS
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
To amend the Department of Public Safety and Corrections rule LAC 55:I.207 which
provides relative to criminal history background checks on licensed ambulance
personnel and nonlicensed persons; to direct the office of the state register to
incorporate the amendments into the Louisiana Administrative Code; and to provide
for related matters.
WHEREAS, Chapter 2 of Part I of Title 55 of the Louisiana Administrative Code,
comprised of LAC 55:I.201, 203, 205, 207, and 209 provides for policies and procedures for
requesting and receiving criminal history background checks on licensed ambulance
personnel and nonlicensed persons from the Louisiana Bureau of Criminal Identification and
Information of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, office of state police; and
WHEREAS, LAC 55:I.207(D) requires licensed ambulance personnel and
nonlicensed persons to resubmit to the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Information
for a fingerprint background check when the result of a name-based background check
contains possible arrest information; and
WHEREAS, previously, parish and local law enforcement agencies were allowed to
perform criminal history checks and return the applicable criminal history information to an
authorized agency; and
WHEREAS, R.S. 49:969 provides that the legislature, by concurrent resolution, may
suspend, amend, or repeal any rule adopted by a state department, agency, board, or
commission.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana hereby amends
LAC 55:I.207 to read as follows:
A. A request for the bureau to conduct a criminal history check authorized by R.S.
40:1203.2 shall be made on a form provided by the bureau and submitted to it by an
employer or authorized agency.
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SCR NO. 3 ENROLLED
B. Each request for a criminal history check authorized by R.S. 40:1203.2 submitted
to the bureau shall be accompanied by the fee of twenty-six dollars as established by R.S.
40:1203.2(B)(2) and LAC 55:I.101.A and a five dollar technology fee as established by R.S.
15:587(D).
C. Each request for a criminal history check submitted to the bureau by an authorized
agency shall be accompanied by a letter of engagement or contract with the employer as
proof that the authorized agency may request and receive criminal history information on
behalf of the employer. The results of each criminal history check submitted by an
authorized agency on behalf of an employer will be reported to the authorized agency.
D. Any Effective beginning October 1, 2026, any criminal history check that
contains possible arrest information, shall be resubmitted to the bureau for a fingerprint
based background check for positive verification.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
office of state register.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Louisiana Register is hereby directed to have
the amendments to LAC 55:I.207 printed and incorporated into the Louisiana Administrative
Code and to transmit a copy of the revised rules to the Department of Public Safety and
Corrections.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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