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SB 44 Original 2026 Regular Session Seabaugh

Present law defines "tactical medical professional" as a licensed paramedic or physician who is employed or contracted by a law enforcement agency to provide direct support to a tactical law enforcement unit by providing medical services at high-risk incidents.

Present law also provides that a tactical medical professional may carry a firearm in the same manner as a law enforcement officer in certain circumstances and that the appointing law enforcement agency must issue any firearm or ammunition that the tactical medical professional carries.

Proposed law provides that the appointing law enforcement agency must approve any firearm or ammunition that a tactical medical professional carries but that it will not be required to issue it.

Proposed law otherwise retains present law.

Effective August 1, 2026.

(Amends R.S. 40:1379.1.6(E))

Legislative History

Mar 25, 2026House

Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

Mar 24, 2026Senate

Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Mar 24, 2026House

Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.

Mar 18, 2026Senate

Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.

Mar 17, 2026Senate

Reported favorably.

Mar 9, 2026Senate

Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B.

Feb 12, 2026Senate

Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary B.

Requires a law enforcement agency to approve firearms and ammunition carried by its tactical medical professionals. (8/1/26)