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+type: "Bill"
+title: "HEALTH SERVICES: Provides relative to behavioral health services delivered via telehealth"
+description: "HEALTH SERVICES: Provides relative to behavioral health services delivered via telehealth"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 449"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 449 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Michael Echols"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2020-02-27"
+last_action: "2020-06-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f897a1fe-2533-49df-a40d-01926c5f42aa"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238165"
+source_hash: "e1073c8dfe23d57dbb44359d14c3531632bfcfe175077cbaff20d35a06952128"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
+---
+
+# Louisiana HB 449 (2020) — HEALTH SERVICES: Provides relative to behavioral health services delivered via telehealth
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB449 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1162797)
+2. **HB449 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1181924)
+3. **HB449 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169582)
+4. **HB449 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1173308)
+5. **House Floor Amendment, #2013, Echols, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172776)
+6. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2000, Mills, Fred, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176203)
+7. **HB449 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1178396)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#388) — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#654) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+- HB 449 BY ECHOLS (#76) — **92–2** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Michael Echols — primary (person)
+- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2020.
+- **2020-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 191. `executive-signature`
+- **2020-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2020-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2020-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 98, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
+- **2020-05-27** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/20.
+- **2020-05-27** Received from the Senate with amendments.
+- **2020-05-27** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2020-05-21** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2020-05-20** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2020-05-18** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-05-15** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 2. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2020-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/20.
+- **2020-05-13** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2020-05-07** Reported favorably (14-0).
+- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-27** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f897a1fe-2533-49df-a40d-01926c5f42aa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+