The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part of the
legislative instrument, were prepared by Christine Arbo Peck.
DIGEST
SB 135 Engrossed 2018 Regular Session Mills
Present law defines market strategy as any plan, strategy, or device developed or intended to
promote, sell, or offer to sell any hospital health service. Proposed law retains present law and adds
document and other health care services to the definition.
Present law defines strategic plan as any plan, strategy, or device developed or intended to construct,
operate, maintain a health facility or engage in providing, promoting, or selling a hospital health
service. Proposed law retains present law and adds document and provides an itemization of other
health care services that are part of the hospital's strategic plan.
Present law provides for market strategies for existing or future hospital health services. Proposed
law retains present law and provides for market strategies for existing or future other health care
services.
Present law provides that market strategies and strategic plans for hospital service districts are not
public records, but shall be subject to subpoena. Proposed law retains present law and clarifies that
market strategies or strategic plans produced by subpoena are not public record and shall remain
confidential.
Proposed law creates a rebuttable presumption that any documents, plans, strategies, or devices
identified as strategic by the hospital service district meet the definitions of market strategies or
strategic plans in present law and shall not be public record and shall be confidential.
Effective August 1, 2018.
(Amends R.S. 46:1072(3) and (4) and 1073(A) and (C); adds R.S. 46:1073(D))