Selected List of Major Accomplishments

• Enacted the Smoke Free Air Act which banned smoking in restaurants

• Defeated a law to impose monetary penalties on licensed childcare facilities

• Enacting the primary seat belt law

• Enacted the Child Passenger Safety Law

• Enacted a law to require charity hospitals to continue to be subject to Louisiana's Open Meetings law

• Amended Louisiana's Public Records Law and the Louisiana Procurement Code

• Secured funding for Louisiana's school based health clinics

• Strengthened Governor Foster’s concealed carried weapons law to include hunter safety requirements

• Enacted a state preference law for meat processors and other agricultural industries

• Enacted a law requiring insurance and managed care companies to cover hearing aids for children

• Enacted a law to require insurance and managed care companies to cover osteoporosis screenings

• Enacted a law to repeal the mandatory retirement age of 70 for justices of the peace and constables

• Secured Capital Outlay funding for the Lighthouse for the Blind in New Orleans