---
type: "Bill"
title: "MEDICAID: Provides relative to Medicaid coverage of certain behavioral health services"
description: "MEDICAID: Provides relative to Medicaid coverage of certain behavioral health services"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 211"
citation: "Louisiana HB 211 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dodie Horton"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 20
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-03-27"
last_action: "2019-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dcf6b63a-9352-4173-9bff-71737382bf77"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235939"
source_hash: "dad18dc7abdc1af73c00fd976ae1362cc98f50c7ab1ce7bf7636b65614c2a2fd"
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 211 (2019) — MEDICAID: Provides relative to Medicaid coverage of certain behavioral health services

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB211 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1119200)
2. **HB211 Act 370** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144521)
3. **HB211 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132722)
4. **HB211 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1136276)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1874, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129172)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2273, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1131664)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #2335, H&W, Divided** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132217)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #2867, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1135261)
9. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1757, Pierre, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132905)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2756, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1138913)
11. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3125, Mills, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1140640)
12. **HB211 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1142160)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#433) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#792) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#883) — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dodie Horton — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-06-20** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 370. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-05** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-04** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-03** Read by title, roll called, yeas 97, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2019-06-02** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/03/19.
- **2019-06-02** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2019-06-02** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-29** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-23** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-22** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-21** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-09** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/19.
- **2019-05-08** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-07** Reported with amendments (11-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dcf6b63a-9352-4173-9bff-71737382bf77`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).