---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH: Requires public schools to offer a mental health assessment to certain students (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
description: "HEALTH: Requires public schools to offer a mental health assessment to certain students (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 486"
citation: "Louisiana HB 486 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Adrian Fisher"]
version_count: 13
action_count: 31
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-04-04"
last_action: "2025-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/01bac68d-a792-493d-8467-feae5eeb3f6a"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248518"
source_hash: "6f1c46e2ab13eddf6ff18b62e126f5b87071ab86f6efa3d7e26852b9f63dfda6"
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 HB 486 (2025) — HEALTH: Requires public schools to offer a mental health assessment to certain students (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB486 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1403992)
2. **HB486 Act 504** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1427696)
3. **HB486 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412532)
4. **HB486 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416785)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2240, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411347)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2412, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412386)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #3235, Fisher, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416502)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #3257, Crews, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416632)
9. **House Floor Amendment, #3260, Hughes, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416654)
10. **House Floor Amendment, #3261, Crews, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416672)
11. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2553, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422495)
12. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3085, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422648)
13. **HB486 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424771)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1216) — **92–5** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#920) — **31–6** (pass) · upper
- 2/3 vote (#902) — **30–0** (pass) · upper
- MOTION TO CONSIDER AFTER 57TH DAY (#1184) — **87–7** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#505) — **64–32** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Adrian Fisher — primary (person)
- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Annie Spell — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Dustin Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Mandie Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Rashid Young — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Shaun Mena — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Tammy Phelps — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-07-01** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-07-01** Becomes Act No. 504 without the Governor's signature. `became-law`
- **2025-06-12** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-12** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-12** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-11** Read by title, roll called, yeas 92, nays 5, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2025-06-11** Rules suspended.
- **2025-06-11** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-11** Notice Senate approved consideration after the 57th calendar day.
- **2025-06-10** The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 31 yeas and 6 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-06-10** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2025-06-10** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2025-06-10** Rules suspended.
- **2025-06-10** Notice House approved consideration after 6:00 p.m. on the 57th calendar day.
- **2025-06-10** Read by title. The Senate approved consideration after 6:00 p.m. on the 57th calendar day by a vote of 30 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2025-06-10** By a vote of 87 yeas, 7 nays, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, the House approved consideration after the 57th calendar day.
- **2025-06-09** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-09** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-06-09** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
- **2025-06-08** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title; recommitted to the Committee on Finance. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-27** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-21** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-20** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 64, nays 32. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-19** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/20/2025.
- **2025-05-19** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-19** Discharged from the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2025-05-08** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2025-05-07** Reported with amendments (11-0) with recommendation to recommit to the Committee on Appropriations. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/01bac68d-a792-493d-8467-feae5eeb3f6a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).