---
type: "Bill"
title: "BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: Provides relative to specialized behavioral health rehabilitation services in the Louisiana medical assistance program. (8/1/21)"
description: "BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: Provides relative to specialized behavioral health rehabilitation services in the Louisiana medical assistance program. (8/1/21)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 127"
citation: "Louisiana SB 127 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patrick McMath"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-03-31"
last_action: "2021-06-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/284bd03c-e3d4-444f-9062-8c9eefab46bd"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240221"
source_hash: "4f9b121f1d99ff83df92afba9ac7488fe749d7386a6a04646ccda30f33d70d36"
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 SB 127 (2021) — BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: Provides relative to specialized behavioral health rehabilitation services in the Louisiana medical assistance program. (8/1/21)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB127 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1209618)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3171, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1225914)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3230, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1226159)
4. **House Floor Amendment, #3582, Magee, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1228895)
5. **SB127 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235888)
6. **SB127 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218617)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1243, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218335)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #882, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217142)
9. **SB127 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230556)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#821) — **103–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#645) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#235) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Patrick McMath — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-21** Effective date 8/1/2021.
- **2021-06-21** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 433. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-06** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/4/2021. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-03** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-03** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-01** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2021-05-27** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2021-05-27** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 103, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/27/2021.
- **2021-05-24** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2021-05-19** Reported with amendments (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-05** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-04** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2021-05-04** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-04-29** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-04-28** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments.
- **2021-04-12** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-31** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/284bd03c-e3d4-444f-9062-8c9eefab46bd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).