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Regular Session, 2012
SENATE BILL NO. 618
BY SENATOR NEVERS
LSU SYSTEM. Provides for the Louisiana State University Health Services Center-New
Orleans. (8/1/12)
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 17:1519.3, relative to the Louisiana State University Health2
Sciences Center-New Orleans; to provide for certain hospitals and their operations;3
and to provide for related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 17:1519.3 is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows: 6
§1519.3. Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-New Orleans; health7
care services division organization8
A. The division and its component hospitals shall be under the immediate9
direction and control of the LSU HSC–NO subject to the overall direction,10
supervision, and management of the board.11
B. No hospital nor any emergency room may be closed without legislative12
approval. Such The approval may be granted by the legislature either by concurrent13
resolution or by appropriate action in the General Appropriation Act.14
C. The board or the division shall not authorize a hospital to reduce health15
care services provided by any one of the hospitals of the Health Care Services16
Division in any manner which causes expenditures of any hospital to be reduced on17 SB NO. 618
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an annualized basis by greater than thirty-five percent of the previous fiscal year1
actual spending level. If any services are reduced by greater than fifteen percent in2
any one year, legislative approval must be obtained before reducing such services3
greater than fifteen percent in any year for the next three years. Funding may be4
provided by any local, regional, state, federal, or private sources to augment existing5
funding or to restore reduced funding.6
D. In no event shall emergency medical treatment treatments be denied to7
anyone in the nearest general hospital owned or operated by the board.8
E. Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-New Orleans shall9
furnish to the Senate and House committees on health and welfare the same reports10
that are prepared quarterly and submitted to the Joint Legislative Committee on the11
Budget. Such The reports shall be submitted at the same time that they are made12
available to the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget.13
F. Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-New Orleans shall14
furnish to the Senate and House committees on health and welfare the same reports15
that are furnished to the Louisiana State University Board of Supervisors. Such The16
report shall be submitted at the same time that they are made available to the Board17
of Supervisors. Such The reports shall include but not be limited to a fiscal year18
overview and any planned reductions at division hospitals.19
G. Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-New Orleans shall20
furnish to the Senate and House committees on health and welfare quarterly reports,21
individually by the hospital, on the length of time that patients wait for services22
provided by the division hospitals.23
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Christopher D. Adams.
DIGEST
Proposed law provides certain technical phraseological changes related to the duties imposed
upon the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-New Orleans.
Effective August 1, 2012.
(Amends R.S. 17:1519.3)