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STOP HB1249 & HB775 – Stop the Medicalization of Schools
Two bills moving through the Louisiana Legislature — HB1249 and HB775 — create a dangerous combination that would dramatically reduce parental involvement in children’s healthcare decisions.
HB1249 expands school-based healthcare services and behavioral health access on campus while limiting parental oversight and notification.
Together, these bills create a system where 17-year-olds could access medical and mental health services at school — during the school day — with little meaningful parental involvement or awareness.
Parents are being systematically removed from the healthcare process.
In what other setting would a parent typically drop a child off at a physician’s office, leave them alone for evaluation and treatment, and simply pick them up afterward with limited knowledge of what occurred?
Parents know their children’s:
- medical history
- medications
- allergies
- mental health struggles
- family circumstances
- prior diagnoses and treatments
Schools and government systems should never replace parents in directing a child’s healthcare.
These bills normalize confidential healthcare relationships between minors and institutions while sidelining the very people legally and morally responsible for children’s wellbeing.
Please contact your legislators immediately and urge them to:
- OPPOSE HB775
- OPPOSE HB1249
- Protect parental rights in Louisiana
Children need parents involved in healthcare decisions — not excluded from them.