---
type: "Bill"
title: "PSYCHOLOGISTS: Provides relative to the practice of psychology. (8/1/24) (EN +$44,925 SG RV See Note)"
description: "PSYCHOLOGISTS: Provides relative to the practice of psychology. (8/1/24) (EN +$44,925 SG RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 57"
citation: "Louisiana SB 57 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eddie Lambert"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-02-27"
last_action: "2024-05-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b3ba29dc-1ad2-4f1f-92fb-52440101a86a"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245863"
source_hash: "b779cad6a3e0bc1d511636af5ce1b116703c8dedd1aeab376cfbc24c3098905e"
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 57 (2024) — PSYCHOLOGISTS: Provides relative to the practice of psychology. (8/1/24) (EN +$44,925 SG RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB57 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1347971)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3804, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369722)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3931, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370500)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #3940, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370270)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #4146, Miller, D., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371613)
6. **House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2840, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370804)
7. **SB57 Act 286** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380734)
8. **SB57 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356221)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #901, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1355543)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #902, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1355545)
11. **SB57 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377316)

## Votes

- CONCUR (#1042) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#137) — **35–1** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1105) — **79–11** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Eddie Lambert — 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. 286. `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.
- **2024-05-22** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-21** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2024-05-21** Called from the Calendar.
- **2024-05-20** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2024-05-15** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-15** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 79, nays 11. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-14** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/2024.
- **2024-05-06** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-01** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-04-30** Reported with amendments (9-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-27** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-26** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-03-26** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 1 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-03-25** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-03-20** 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 Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-27** 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/b3ba29dc-1ad2-4f1f-92fb-52440101a86a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).