---
type: "Bill"
title: "COUNSELING/GUIDANCE: Provides relative to the Louisiana Social Work Practice Act. (1/1/22)"
description: "COUNSELING/GUIDANCE: Provides relative to the Louisiana Social Work Practice Act. (1/1/22)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 155"
citation: "Louisiana SB 155 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joseph Bouie"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-04-01"
last_action: "2021-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/60d1f183-2bfd-4f11-9251-e907a6f0734f"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240324"
source_hash: "4c8fc7168957ce2fad9ad97044da228e73d5e4834ae1e3bfe3999b8ed3efc5e4"
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 155 (2021) — COUNSELING/GUIDANCE: Provides relative to the Louisiana Social Work Practice Act. (1/1/22)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB155 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1210801)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #2966, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224970)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3106, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1225684)
4. **House Floor Amendment, #3588, Stefanski, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1228944)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #3601, Bagley, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1228972)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #3627, Edmonds, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1229137)
7. **SB155 Act 215** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235352)
8. **SB155 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215427)
9. **SB155 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217514)
10. **Senate Floor Amendment, #899, Bouie, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216311)
11. **SB155 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230583)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#837) — **85–17** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#654) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#115) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Joseph Bouie — primary (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Frederick D. Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-11** Effective date 1/1/2022.
- **2021-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 215. `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 35 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 85, nays 17. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-27** Called from the calendar.
- **2021-05-27** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2021-05-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/27/2021.
- **2021-05-20** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-19** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2021-05-18** Reported with amendments (12-1). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-04-28** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-27** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2021-04-26** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-04-21** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-04-20** Reported favorably.
- **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`
- **2021-04-01** 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/60d1f183-2bfd-4f11-9251-e907a6f0734f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).