---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH SERVICES: Restricts the location of certain psychiatric facilities. (gov sig)"
description: "HEALTH SERVICES: Restricts the location of certain psychiatric facilities. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 455"
citation: "Louisiana SB 455 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Regina Ashford Barrow"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-04-02"
last_action: "2024-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8ee09024-bb0d-43e7-9cf1-b41b7fc627dc"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247044"
source_hash: "df81e536ea2d4e60022d198941a7fa774cd0357668b128c9c9fb0d090d9a7158"
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 455 (2024) — HEALTH SERVICES: Restricts the location of certain psychiatric facilities. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB455 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1360810)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #4661, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374765)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #4693, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374983)
4. **House Floor Amendment, #5074, Chassion, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377865)
5. **House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #3723, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375310)
6. **SB455 Act 588** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382249)
7. **SB455 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366613)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2047, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366212)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2069, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366301)
10. **SB455 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379011)

## Votes

- CONCUR (#1211) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#388) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1329) — **93–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Regina Ashford Barrow — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-11** Effective date 6/11/2024.
- **2024-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 588. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-31** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-30** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-05-29** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-28** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2024-05-22** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-22** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-22** Called from the calendar.
- **2024-05-22** Read by title, amended, returned to the calendar.
- **2024-05-21** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/2024.
- **2024-05-21** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-20** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-05-15** Reported with amendments (12-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-24** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-23** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-04-23** Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-22** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-04-17** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-02** Introduced in the Senate. Read by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8ee09024-bb0d-43e7-9cf1-b41b7fc627dc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).