Butler, Rhonda

Sponsored bills

• HB1082: CIVIL/VENUE: Provides for venue with respect to the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System
• SB479: JUDGES: Provides for legislative address to the governor for the removal of certain judges for malfeasance, gross misconduct, or incompetence committed while in office. (See Act)
• HB979: LAW ENFORCE/OFFICERS: Increases the benefit paid to survivors of law enforcement officers and firemen (EN +$800,000 GF EX See Note)
• HB401: BRIDGES/FERRIES: Designates the elevated portion of United States Highway 190 as the "Lance Corporal Justin D. McLeese Memorial Bridge"
• HB36: JUVENILES: Removes Evangeline Parish as a member of the Acadiana Regional Juvenile Justice District (primary sponsor)
• HB578: CIVIL/LAW: Provides for the Restoring Biological Truth Act
• HB1247: CRIME/SEX OFFENSES: Creates a statewide Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Coordinator
• SB125: CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: Increases the compensation cap for the wrongful conviction compensation law. (8/1/26) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)
• HB1092: HEALTH/LDH: Renames the office for citizens with developmental disabilities within the Louisiana Department of Health (primary sponsor)
• HB726: BOATS/SHIPS/VESSELS: Increases fines for abandoning vessels
• HB584: CHILDREN/FOSTER CARE: Provides relative to children in foster care (EN +$11,125 EX See Note)
• HB222: MEDICAID: Requires Medicaid to cover dental procedures for certain Medicaid enrollees (EN +$784,370 GF EX See Note)
• HB12: LAW ENFORCE/OFFICERS: Extends surviving spouse benefits for a reserve officer killed in the line of duty (EN +$250,000 GF EX See Note)
• HR401: CONGRESS: Memorializes the United States Congress to work towards a cure for Sanfilippo Syndrome
• HCR79: WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Memorializes Congress and the United States Forest Service to take such actions as are necessary to allow the use of dogs for hunting in the Kisatchie National Forest (primary sponsor)
• SB143: LAW ENFORCEMENT: Provides relative to funding of bulletproof vests for peace officers. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE EX)
• HB1253: HUMAN REMAINS: Enacts the Gracey Claire Rushing Act to provide for documentation, notification, and communication in the handling and disposition of human remains and internal organs (EN NO IMPACT See Note) (primary sponsor)
• HCR67: HEALTH CARE/FACILITIES: Requests the Louisiana Department of Health to study and report on gaps in acute healthcare access for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (primary sponsor)
• HCR54: WILDLIFE/HABITAT: Urges and requests the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to study the impact of flooded corn on migratory waterfowl behavior and to reinstate the enforcement mechanism that restricted the growth of hunting over intentionally flooding standing crops
• SB307: PUBLIC BUILDINGS/GROUNDS: Authorizes the educational display of the Ten Commandments as a historical document and monument. (8/1/26) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)