---
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).