---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH CARE: Provides relative to perinatal behavioral health treatment. (8/1/25) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
description: "HEALTH CARE: Provides relative to perinatal behavioral health treatment. (8/1/25) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 42"
citation: "Louisiana SB 42 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Larry Selders"]
version_count: 15
action_count: 33
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-03-31"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/896fae09-6c79-4e03-890d-6ff4eabcf88c"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248097"
source_hash: "bb96a5b7c4fb61f9d34d2aca77b26f2533d930c2134a48af883bb0f26a5cbe3b"
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 42 (2025) — HEALTH CARE: Provides relative to perinatal behavioral health treatment. (8/1/25) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB42 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1400334)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #3196, House Proposed, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424307)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3548, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418570)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #3593, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418524)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #3630, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419090)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #4058, Miller, D., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421762)
7. **SB42 Act 410** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425945)
8. **SB42 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407610)
9. **SB42 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413835)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1548, FNCE, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413417)
11. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1569, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413553)
12. **Senate Committee Amendment, #743, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407251)
13. **Senate Committee Amendment, #753, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407333)
14. **Senate Committee Amendment, #790, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407526)
15. **SB42 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425137)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#254) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1250) — **81–17** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT (#963) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#913) — **89–7** (pass) · lower
- REJECT (#847) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Larry Selders — 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 Deshotel — cosponsor (person)
- Dixon McMakin — cosponsor (person)
- Dustin Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Jessica Domangue — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
- Josh Carlson — cosponsor (person)
- Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
- Mandie Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Paula Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
- Shaun Mena — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Hilferty — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Tammy Phelps — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
- Troy Hebert — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)
- William "Bill" Wheat , Jr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-20** Effective date 8/1/2025.
- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 410. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-12** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/13/2025. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-12** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2025-06-12** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate on 6/13/2025. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-12** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2025-06-12** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2025-06-12** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 81, nays 17. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2025-06-12** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2025-06-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/12/2025.
- **2025-06-11** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2025-06-11** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2025-06-11** Senate conference committee members appointed: Selders, Cloud, and Womack.
- **2025-06-11** Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules.
- **2025-06-11** House conferees appointed: Miller, Firment, and Fisher.
- **2025-06-09** Notice of Senate rejecting House amendments.
- **2025-06-09** Amendments proposed by the House read and rejected by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2025-06-04** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-04** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 7. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-06-03** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/04/2025.
- **2025-06-03** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-03** Discharged from the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2025-05-29** Read by title, amended, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2025-05-28** Reported with amendments (11-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-19** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-15** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2025-05-14** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-13** Read by title; Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered reengrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2025-05-12** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-28** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted; ordered engrossed and recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2025-04-23** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/896fae09-6c79-4e03-890d-6ff4eabcf88c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).