2026 Regular Session

HB1101

Provides relative to maximum medical improvement, income benefits, the misrepresentation of benefits or payments, and the rehabilitation of injured employees under workers' compensation (EG -$550,900 SG EX See Note)

Chamber Passed·5/6/26

Prefiled

Introduced

Chamber Passed5/6/26

Final Passage

Complete

Louisiana HB1101 amends workers' compensation laws regarding maximum medical improvement, income benefits, misrepresentation of benefits, and.

Louisiana HB1101 modifies workers' compensation laws to define maximum medical improvement, limit income benefits, penalize misrepresentation of benefits, and clarify vocational rehabilitation services. It sets maximum medical improvement as the point where the employee's condition is unlikely to improve substantially. It reduces supplemental earnings benefits from 520 to 416 weeks and limits temporary total disability benefits to 156 weeks.

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Where it stands

Last: Passed the House · 66–29 · May 6
Current: Labor & Industrial Relations Committee
Next: Senate floor vote

Roll Call Votes

67 Yea

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29 Nay

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9 Absent

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Calendar

May 14

12:00 AM

Senate Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations

History

May 7

Senate

Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations.

May 6

House

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 67, nays 29. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.