SLS 24RS-223 ORIGINAL

2024 Regular Session

SENATE BILL NO. 133

BY SENATORS PRESSLY AND HODGES AND REPRESENTATIVE EDMONSTON

PUBLIC HEALTH. Provides relative to certain international organizations. (8/1/24)

1 AN ACT

2 To enact R.S. 49:24, relative to certain international organizations; to disallow the exercise

3 of jurisdiction by certain international organizations; to prevent the use of

4 communications from certain international organizations as a basis for action in the

5 state of Louisiana; and to provide for related matters.

6 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:

7 Section 1. R.S. 49:24 is hereby enacted to read as follows:

8 §24. Jurisdiction of certain international organizations

9 The World Health Organization, United Nations, and the World

10 Economic Forum shall have no jurisdiction or power within the state of

11 Louisiana. No rule, regulation, fee, tax, policy, or mandate of any kind of the

12 World Health Organization, United Nations, and the World Economic Forum

13 shall be enforced or implemented by the state of Louisiana or any agency,

14 department, board, commission, political subdivision, governmental entity of

15 the state, parish, municipality, or any other political entity.

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SB NO. 133

The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Amanda Trapp.

DIGEST
SB 133 Original 2024 Regular Session Pressly

Proposed law provides that the World Health Organization, United Nations, and the World
Economic Forum shall have no jurisdiction or power within the state of Louisiana.

Proposed law further provides that no rule, regulation, fee, tax policy, or mandate of any
kind of the World Health Organization, United Nations, and the World Economic Forum
shall be enforced or implemented by the state of Louisiana or any agency, department,
board, commission, political subdivision, governmental entity of the state, parish,
municipality, or any other political entity.

Effective August 1, 2024.

(Adds R.S. 49:24)

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