SLS 22RS-151 ORIGINAL
2022 Regular Session
SENATE BILL NO. 11
BY SENATOR MCMATH
HEALTH CARE. Prohibits discrimination relative to immunization status. (8/1/22)
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 49:146(A)(1), relative to prohibited discrimination in facilities
3 to which the public is invited; to prohibit discrimination based on immunization
4 status; and to provide for related matters.
5 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
6 Section 1. R.S. 49:146(A)(1) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
7 ยง146. Facilities to which public invited; discrimination
8 A.(1) In access to public areas, public accommodations, and public facilities,
9 every person shall be free from discrimination based on race, religion, or national
10 ancestry and from arbitrary, capricious, or unreasonable discrimination based on age,
11 sex, immunization status, or physical or mental disability.
12 * * *
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Christine Arbo Peck.
DIGEST
SB 11 Original 2022 Regular Session McMath
Present law prohibits arbitrary, capricious, or unreasonable discrimination in public areas,
public accommodations, and public facilities based on age, sex, or physical or mental
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Coding: Words which are struck through are deletions from existing law;
words in boldface type and underscored are additions. SB NO. 11
SLS 22RS-151 ORIGINAL
disability.
Proposed law adds immunization status as a protected class.
Effective August 1, 2022.
(Amends R.S. 49:146(A)(1))
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Coding: Words which are struck through are deletions from existing law;
words in boldface type and underscored are additions.