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+type: "Bill"
+title: "BOARDS/COMMISSIONS: Authorizes the La. State Board of Examiners of Psychologists to implement fees for certain services (EN +$78,750 SG RV See Note)"
+description: "BOARDS/COMMISSIONS: Authorizes the La. State Board of Examiners of Psychologists to implement fees for certain services (EN +$78,750 SG RV See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 477"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 477 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Joe Stagni"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2021-04-02"
+last_action: "2021-06-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e00cddff-4f97-47b5-a288-2e577e829101"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240431"
+source_hash: "76ba8eaf8e3f49fe9f997483fd0b840eac804bb2235ef6d4b1a720934ee5b5c7"
+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 477 (2021) — BOARDS/COMMISSIONS: Authorizes the La. State Board of Examiners of Psychologists to implement fees for certain services (EN +$78,750 SG RV See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB477 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1211541)
+2. **HB477 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235319)
+3. **HB477 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220532)
+4. **HB477 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1223682)
+5. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1588, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220938)
+6. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2435, Luneau, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1226929)
+7. **HB477 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230978)
+
+## Votes
+
+- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#916) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- CO-AUTHORS (#543) — **22–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#542) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#383) — **76–15** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Joe Stagni — primary (person)
+- Barry Milligan — cosponsor (person)
+- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
+- Eddie Lambert — cosponsor (person)
+- Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)
+- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
+- Gregory Tarver — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Rogers Pope — cosponsor (person)
+- Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
+- Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
+- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
+- Louie Bernard — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick Connick — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)
+- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
+- Rick Ward, III — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert Mills — cosponsor (person)
+- Ronnie Johns — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
+- **2021-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 238. `executive-signature`
+- **2021-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-06-03** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2021-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2021-06-02** Read by title, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0. The Senate amendments, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, were concurred in.
+- **2021-06-01** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/02/2021.
+- **2021-05-26** Received from the Senate with amendments.
+- **2021-05-26** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2021-05-25** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2021-05-24** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2021-05-20** Reported favorably.
+- **2021-05-13** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-05-12** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2021-05-11** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 76, nays 15. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2021-05-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/11/2021.
+- **2021-05-05** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2021-05-04** Reported favorably (10-0).
+- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021.
+- **2021-04-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-02** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e00cddff-4f97-47b5-a288-2e577e829101`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+