---
type: "Bill"
title: "BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: Requires city, parish and other local public school boards to adopt and implement a program to facilitate behavior health intervention and referral for treatment. (8/1/24) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)"
description: "BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: Requires city, parish and other local public school boards to adopt and implement a program to facilitate behavior health intervention and referral for treatment. (8/1/24) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 252"
citation: "Louisiana SB 252 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beth Mizell"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-05-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fb3d7585-7a6d-4f98-9b1f-a8fd0b53021f"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246500"
source_hash: "8a787fb600c877b8cd66796fe94699b3907c35e15ea6516d153834152cebd70d"
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 252 (2024) — BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: Requires city, parish and other local public school boards to adopt and implement a program to facilitate behavior health intervention and referral for treatment. (8/1/24) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB252 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352475)
2. **SB252 Act 324** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380796)
3. **SB252 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1359126)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1270, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358633)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1355, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1359043)
6. **SB252 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377972)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#235) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1334) — **79–14** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Beth Mizell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-28** Effective date 8/1/2024.
- **2024-05-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 324. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-28** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/23/2024. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-23** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-05-23** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-22** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 79, nays 14. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-22** Called from the calendar.
- **2024-05-21** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/2024.
- **2024-05-21** Notice given.
- **2024-05-21** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2024-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/2024.
- **2024-05-09** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-08** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-05-07** Reported favorably (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-09** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-04-09** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-02** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-03-27** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fb3d7585-7a6d-4f98-9b1f-a8fd0b53021f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).