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HR 294 Original 2019 Regular Session Jimmy Harris
Requests the Louisiana Department of Health to take immediate action to address racial disparity in
maternal and child health outcomes and the alarming rate of mortality for African American infants
and mothers in Louisiana and submit a summary report of immediate actions on or before August
1, 2019.
Requests the department to host a summit on or before October 1, 2019, and submit a summit
recommendation report of long-term actions to address mortality outcomes for African American
infants and mothers in Louisiana to the House of Representatives of the Legislature of Louisiana on
or before December 31, 2019.