Louisiana Sen. Patrick Page Cortez

LA - Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs (Senate)

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member

LA - Retirement (Senate)

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member

LA - Transportation, Highways and Public Works (Senate)

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chairman

LA - Senate Executive Committee (Senate)

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member

LA - SR196 COMMENDATIONS: Commends Dr. Donald Aguillard upon his retirement as Superintendent of Lafayette Parish Schools.

LA - SR107 COMMENDATIONS: Commends the Ascension Episcopal High School Blue Gators girls' tennis team from Youngsville, Louisiana on winning the Allstate Sugar Bowl/LHSAA Division IV State Tennis Championship.

LA - SR83 COMMENDATIONS: Commends the St. Thomas More High School Cougars boys basketball team and Coach Danny Broussard for winning the Division II State Championship.

LA - SR84 COMMENDATIONS: Commends the St. Thomas More High School Lady Cougars girls soccer team and Head Coach Daniel Underwood for repeating as Division II state champions back to back.

LA - SB163 TRANSPORTATION/DEV DEPT: Provides relative to special permits for the operation of vehicles issued by the Department of Transportation and Development. (8/1/19)

LA - SB200 PUBLIC CONTRACTS: Provides for use of A + B bid method in contracts for public works let by local governmental subdivisions and political subdivisions under certain conditions. (8/1/19)

LA - SB29 FEES/LICENSES/PERMITS: Provides relative to professional and occupational licensing boards and commissions. (8/1/19)

LA - SB162 LOCAL EMPLOYEES: Provides relative to pay increases for officers of the Lafayette City Police Department. (7/1/19)

LA - SB91 ROADS/HIGHWAYS: Provides relative to electric low-speed scooters. (8/1/19)

LA - SR157 COMMENDATIONS: Commends the Ascension Episcopal High School Blue Gators boys golf team on winning the 2019 Allstate Sugar Bowl/LHSAA Division III Boys Golf State Championship.

LA - SCR110 TRANSPORTATION/DEV DEPT: Extends creation of the Louisiana Supply Chain and Transportation Council.

LA - HB143 HEALTH/ANATOMICAL GIFTS: Provides for rights of qualified organ transplant candidates who have a disability

LA - HB335 PUBLIC HEALTH: Requires food service establishments serving imported crawfish or shrimp to inform patrons that the seafood is of foreign origin (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

LA - HB347 INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides relative to health insurance coverage for breast cancer screening and treatment (EN INCREASE SG EX See Note)

LA - HB370 INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides relative to prescription drug benefits for persons with stage-four advanced, metastatic cancer (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX See Note)

LA - HB389 PUBLIC BUILDINGS/GROUNDS: Provides for naming the supreme court building after Pascal F. Calogero, Jr.

LA - HB425 ABORTION: (Constitutional Amendment) Stipulates that no provision of the constitution protects a right to abortion or requires the funding of abortion

LA - HB575 TRANSPORTATION: Establishes requirements for transportation network companies (EN +$115,000 SG EX See Note)

LA - HB578 FUNDS/FUNDING: Dedicates the economic proceeds from the Deepwater Horizon litigation to transportation projects and redirects funding to the Construction Subfund of the Transportation Trust Fund (EN -$24,000,000 GF RV See Note)

LA - HCR11 SPECIAL DAY/WEEK/MONTH: Recognizes May 1, 2019, as Y Day in Louisiana and commends Louisiana's YMCAs for dedication to families in the state

LA - HCR20 SOCIAL SECURITY SYS: Memorializes congress to consider eliminating the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO) Social Security benefit reductions

LA - HCR46 MTR VEHICLE/VIOLATIONS: Urges and requests the Louisiana State Law Institute to study and make recommendations relative to vulnerable road users

LA - HCR50 INSURANCE/HEALTH: Requests a study concerning health insurance coverage of interpreter services for the deaf and hard of hearing in healthcare settings

LA - HCR64 COMMENDATIONS: Commends Alfred W. "Butch" Speer upon his retirement and more than thirty-five years of dedicated service to the Louisiana House of Representatives

LA - HCR99 COMMENDATIONS: Commends Mr. William E. "Bill" Crawford on his retirement from the Louisiana State Law Institute

LA - HCR115 CONDOLENCES: Expresses condolences on the death of former state representative Charles D. "Charlie" Lancaster, Jr.

LA - SB3 MOTOR VEHICLES: Provides authority for the commissioner of the OMV to waive any penalty, procedure, or requirement for failure to maintain insurance provided that the principal driver of the motor vehicle is the registered owner or owner's spouse or child who was in the hospital or has died, and the owner can provide such proof to the commissioner. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX See Note)

LA - SB8 ROADS/HIGHWAYS: Designates LA 124 in Catahoula Parish as the "Lt. Col. R.V. McHale Memorial Highway" and parts of U.S. Hwy 167 in Winn and Grant parishes as the "Preston Hall Mosely Memorial Highway". (gov sig) (EN +$1,100 SG EX See Note)

LA - SB10 SHERIFFS PEN/RELIEF FUND: Provides relative to permanent benefit increases. (2/3 - CA10s29(F)) (6/30/19) (EN DECREASE APV)

LA - SB13 STATE POLICE RETIREMENT: Provides for a surviving spouse benefit to resume in certain circumstances. (2/3 - CA10s29(F)) (7/1/2019) (EN INCREASE APV)

LA - SB15 STATE EMPLOYEE RET: Provides for firefighters at state agencies to be members of the hazardous duty plan. (2/3 - CA10s29(F)) (6/30/19) (EN INCREASE APV)

LA - SB76 MOTOR VEHICLES: Provides relative to child safety seats. (8/1/19)

LA - SB109 CHILDREN/FAMILY SERVICES DEPT: Provides relative to youth in the foster care program. (gov sig) (EN +$1,575,758 GF EX See Note)

LA - SB119 HEALTH SERVICES: Creates the Palliative Care Interdisciplinary Advisory Council. (8/1/19) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX See Note)

LA - SB129 ROADS/HIGHWAYS: Requires a local municipal or parish authority to allow certain pedestrians to stand in a roadway to solicit charitable contributions under certain circumstances. (8/1/19)

LA - SB145 CRIME/PUNISHMENT: Provides relative to human trafficking. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

LA - SB160 CONTROL DANGER SUBSTANCE: Provides relative to programs and professional training to fight the opioid crisis. (8/1/19)

LA - SB170 GOVERNOR: Creates the Rural Water Infrastructure Committee within the governor's office. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

LA - SB173 HEALTH CARE: Provides for the Healthcare Coverage for Louisiana Families Protection Act. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)

LA - SB174 AGED PERSONS: Provides relative to the annual appropriation for the councils on aging. (8/1/19) (EN +$3,972,082 GF EX See Note)

LA - SB221 ABORTION: Provides relative to abortion and the Woman's Right to Know law. (gov sig)

LA - SB238 LAW ENFORCEMENT: Provides for abortion clinic employees to be mandatory reporters of human trafficking and certain sexual based crimes to law enforcement and provides for the additional postings of the National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline information. (8/1/19)

LA - SR42 COMMENDATIONS: Commends Chris John for his years of public service.

LA - SR48 CONDOLENCES: Expresses the sincere condolences of the Senate on the death of Dana Carpenter, Ph.D.

LA - SR54 COMMENDATIONS: Commends Joe Cormier III, on his 2019 induction into the International Babe Ruth Hall of Fame and for his many achievements in youth baseball.

LA - SR127 SENATE: Commends Senator Dan "Blade" Morrish upon being elected NCOIL president.

LA - SR142 COMMENDATIONS: Commends Norby Chabert on his service in the Senate.

LA - SR143 COMMENDATIONS: Commends Dan Claitor for his distinguished public service representing Senate District No. 16.

LA - SR146 CONDOLENCES: Expresses condolences to House of Representatives member, Barbara Carpenter, upon the recent death of her husband, Dana Carpenter.

LA - SR147 COMMENDATIONS: Commends Senator Conrad Appel for his years of distinguished public service to the Louisiana Senate.

LA - SR148 COMMENDATIONS: Commends Senator John L. "Jack" Donahue Jr. for his service to the Louisiana Senate.

LA - SR151 SENATE: Honors and commemorates the life of Kenneth Rene Michael Carter.

LA - SR160 SENATE: Declares Louisiana as a Purple Heart State.

LA - SR162 CONDOLENCES: Expresses condolences upon the death of Sergeant Matthew Roberts.

LA - SR163 CONDOLENCES: Expresses condolences upon the death of military veteran, Dylan Achord.

LA - SR164 CONDOLENCES: Expresses condolences upon the death of Specialist Duke Gilmore.

LA - SR165 CONDOLENCES: Expresses condolences upon the death of Lance Corporal Cole Estelle.

LA - SR166 CONDOLENCES: Expresses condolences upon the death of Corporal Jessie Wilhite.

LA - SR173 COMMENDATIONS: Commends Senator Jean-Paul "JP" Morrell for his distinguished service in the Louisiana Legislature, particularly in the Senate representing Senate District No. 3.

LA - SR174 COMMENDATIONS: Commends Neil Riser on his service in the Senate.

LA - SR175 COMMENDATIONS: Commends Senator Dale M. Erdey on his years of distinguished public service.

LA - SR176 COMMENDATIONS: Commends Eric LaFleur on his service in the Senate.

LA - SR184 COMMENDATIONS: Commends Senator Gerald Long for his years of service to the citizens of the state of Louisiana while a member of the Louisiana Senate and the President Pro Tempore.

LA - SR185 COMMENDATIONS: Commends Dan "Blade" Morrish on his service in the Senate.

LA - SR186 COMMENDATIONS: Commends Michael A. Walsworth on 24 years of distinguished public service in the Legislature of Louisiana.

LA - SR187 COMMENDATIONS: Commends Senator Daniel R. Martiny on his distinguished public service to the people of Louisiana.

LA - SR189 CONDOLENCES: Expresses condolences on the death of Coach Otis Washington.

LA - SR192 COMMENDATIONS: Commends Noble Ellington upon his exceptional career in public service spanning more than four decades.

LA - SR194 CONDOLENCES: Expresses condolences upon the death of Jacobi Scott.

LA - SR197 COMMENDATIONS: Commends Senator Yvonne Colomb for her many years of public service in the Senate and the Legislature of Louisiana.

LA - SR198 COMMENDATIONS: Commends John R. Smith on his service in the Senate.

LA - SR199 COMMENDATIONS: Commends Francis C. Thompson on 45 years of distinguished public service in the Legislature of Louisiana.

LA - SR207 COMMENDATIONS: Commends Beverly Walton for her years of public service as dietician and chef for the Senate.

LA - SR210 COMMENDATIONS: Commends Glenn Koepp, Secretary of the Senate, for his years of dedicated public service and congratulates him upon his retirement.

LA - SR219 COMMENDATIONS: Commends Senate President John A. Alario Jr. upon his distinguished public service in the Legislature of Louisiana.

LA - SR224 COMMENDATIONS: Commends Gene Mills as president of the Louisiana Family Forum.

LA - SR248 SENATE: Commends Senate Attorney Tom Wade on the occasion of his retirement.

LA - SR249 COMMENDATIONS: Commends Susan P. Montague on her retirement from the Louisiana Senate.

LA - SR250 COMMENDATIONS: To commend the NAACP upon the 100 year anniversary of its Baton Rouge branch.

LA - SR252 CONDOLENCES: Expresses condolences on the death of Rodney L. Braxton.

LA - SR257 COMMENDATIONS: Commends Sharon Work upon her retirement and for more than 45 years of dedicated service to the state, particularly the Louisiana Senate.

LA - SR261 COMMENDATIONS: Commends the Southern University at New Orleans Lady Knights track team on winning four national outdoor track championships.

LA - SR262 COMMENDATIONS: Commends the Southern University Jaguars baseball team on its accomplishments during the 2019 season.

LA - SR263 COMMENDATIONS: To commend Southern University Women's Basketball team and Head Coach Carlos Funchess on an outstanding season.

LA - SR271 COMMENDATIONS: Commends Maura Donahue for her many accomplishments and exemplary service to the business community in Louisiana, the United States, and internationally.

LA - SCR3 BESE: Provides for legislative approval of the MFP formula for the 2019-2020 Fiscal Year. (EN +$145,214,142 GF EX See Note)

LA - SCR27 COASTAL RESOURCES: Approves the annual state integrated coastal protection plan for Fiscal Year 2020, as adopted by the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority Board.

LA - SCR32 COMMENDATIONS: Commends the service and contributions of first responders in Louisiana and designates April 30, 2019, as First Responders Appreciation Day at the Louisiana State Capitol.

LA - SCR38 SPECIAL DAY/WEEK/MONTH: Recognizes May 11, 2019, as Louisiana Firefighters' Appreciation Day and commends all firefighters across the state for their dedication to public safety and for their service to the citizens of Louisiana and the United States of America.

LA - SCR39 LEGIS POWERS/FUNCTIONS: Recognizes the Centennial Anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

LA - SCR54 COMMENDATIONS: Commends Paul Hardy upon being inducted into the Louisiana Political Hall of Fame.

LA - SCR59 COMMENDATIONS: Commends E. "Pete" Adams for 46 years of exemplary service as the executive director of the Louisiana District Attorneys Association.

LA - SCR71 COASTAL PROTECT/RES AUTH: Requests the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority and the Department of Transportation and Development to determine what monies, state or federal, are available for flood control projects in the coastal zone or coastal area, and in the area outside the coastal area.

LA - SCR74 COMMENDATIONS: Commends "The Advocate" on being awarded a Pulitzer Prize for its reporting on the impact of Louisiana provisions allowing juries to convict defendants without a unanimous verdict.

LA - SCR79 COMMENDATIONS: Commends Raymond Blanco on being named to the 2019 Louisiana Political Hall of Fame induction class.

LA - SCR103 COMMENDATIONS: Commends President Hines on his lifetime commitment to rural hospitals in the state.

LA - SCR105 COMMENDATIONS: Commends Donald W. Washington upon his appointment as director of the United States Marshals Service.

LA - SCR115 COMMENDATIONS: Commends Dr. James A. Richardson upon his 32 years of service and contributions to the Louisiana Revenue Estimating Conference.

LA - SCR130 CONGRESS: Memorializes the United States Congress to review the definition of abortion and use of the term abortion for purposes of medical records when a woman has a spontaneous miscarriage.

LA - SCR135 COMMENDATIONS: Commends LSU Law Professor George Pugh upon his distinguished legal career.

LA - SCR138 LEGIS POWERS/FUNCTIONS: Request the Louisiana State Law Institute to study the necessity of advising crime victims and witnesses of certain rights.

LA - SCR139 COMMENDATIONS: Commends Danny Wilson upon his retirement from AT&T.

LA - SCR140 CONDOLENCES: Expresses condolences on the death of Leah Chase, the Queen of Creole Cuisine.

LA - SCR141 CONDOLENCES: Expresses condolences on the death of Leah Chase, the Queen of Creole Cuisine.

LA - SCR142 COMMENDATIONS: Commends First Lieutenant John Stillmon Willis Jr. upon the celebration of his one hundredth birthday.

LA - SCR144 COMMENDATIONS: Commends Antoine Duplantis, LSU outfielder, on setting the all time LSU base hit record.