BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — Gov. Jeff Landry made Louisiana Department of Health leadership announcements and signed health care bills Tuesday morning.
Landry signed HB 853 , authored by State Rep. Brach Myers, creating the Office of the Surgeon General. He said Ralph Abraham will be the surgeon general, Michael Harrington will be the new LDH Secretary, Drew Maranto will be the LDH Undersecretary and Bethany Blackson will be the new LDH chief of staff.
Landry said, “Having a physician in charge and working alongside of a secretary of the LDH who is kind of like a CEO gives us I think, strengthens our health care system and it’s something that we need to do.”
Abraham said the new surgeon general position “is going to be a public health policy platform where we will work with hospitals, doctors, medical schools, universities, everyone that is in that chain that impacts that health care of that patient.”
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Myers said HB896 “establishes the Louisiana Remote Patient Monitoring Program Law.”
Landry then signed HB329 , also authored by Myers. He said that “the H.E.R.O fund serves as a means of doubling remaining and uncommitted funds available within the Health Care Employment Reinvestment Opportunity Fund.”
The next bill signed by Landry was HB972 , authored by State Rep. Daryl Deshotel. The bill “allows the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners to grant certain temporary permits and licenses.”
HB579 , authored by State Rep. Wayne McMahen, “provides relative to pharmacist authorization to dispense HIV pre-exposure and post-exposure prophylaxis.”
McMahen said the bill is “about a workforce and access to health care in Louisiana.”
Landry said the bill “will increase access to those at risk of contracting HIV by adding pharmacists and pharmacies as additional access points.”
Landry has signed multiple bills into law since he took office in January.
Last week he signed the LA Gator Scholarship Program into law . Parents can now use tax dollars to pay for and send their kids to a school of their choice. He also signed a new law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms.
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