HOSPITALS: Provides for a hospital stabilization formula (EN +$648,232,241 SD RV See Note)
HCR 2 modifies the state's hospital stabilization funding formula by increasing specific percentage rates used to calculate payments to hospitals. It directly affects public and private hospitals receiving state funding under this formula. Key changes include raising inpatient revenue percentages from 5% to 6.49% and outpatient percentages from 5% to 6.74%, among other adjustments. These changes collectively add approximately $648 million in annual funding to the hospital stabilization budget. The bill is currently pending third reading in the legislature.
Bill status
passed both
4 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Apr 2025
Committee Review
Jun 2025
House Passage
May 2025
Senate Passage
Jun 2025
Governor
Introduced Apr 4, 2025
Last action Jun 11, 2025
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What changed between versions
HCR2 Enrolled
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HCR2 Original
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MINOR
The bill text was reformatted from an 'Enrolled' version to an 'Original' version, which involved removing page headers and renumbering the sections. Crucially, the specific tax rates for hospitals were lowered in the original version compared to the enrolled version, reducing the assessment percentages for various hospital types.
Scope change
The scope of the bill's application remains the same, targeting hospitals in Louisiana subject to directed payment arrangements, but the financial impact on those hospitals is reduced due to lower tax rates.
FISCAL
Hospital assessment rates were reduced across multiple categories: Long-term acute care, psychiatric, and rehabilitation hospitals dropped from 1.38% to 1.3%; Hospital Service Districts dropped from 4.99% to 4%; All other acute care hospitals dropped from 6.49% to 5%; and the tiered rate for hospitals exceeding $125 million in revenue dropped from 2.36% to 2%.
TECHNICAL
The document structure was changed from an 'Enrolled' final version to an 'Original' draft version, resulting in the removal of page headers and the renumbering of the 'Whereas' clauses and resolution sections.
Floor votes · Senate Jun 9, 2025 · House May 15, 2025
How they voted
39–0
Passed
Total votes 39
Jun 9, 2025
D
Democratic11
100% Yea
R
Republican28
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
18
Key actions
4
Committee
4
Jun 9, 2025
Upper · Passed
Read by title and concurred in by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays. Ordered returned to the House.
upper
Jun 1, 2025
Upper · Passed
Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 15, 2025
Lower · Passed
Read by title, amended, roll called on final consideration, yeas 99, nays 0. The resolution was adopted and ordered to the Senate.
lower
May 12, 2025
Lower · Passed
Reported favorably (22-0).
lower
Apr 14, 2025
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
lower
Apr 4, 2025
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Jack McFarland
RRepublican
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